Reprobio, biology reproductionMar 10
If you were alarmed by the last Fertility and Sterility issue on the global fertility decline (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/fertility-and-sterility/vol/125/issue/2), take a break and read this nice article:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516629-the-real-reasons-birth-rates-are-declining-worldwide/
The afterword: just think outside the (impossible) ever-growing capitalist paradigm.
#GlobalFertility #DoNotPanic #9000million #rethinking #sustainability
Show threadUniversidadxClimaDec 9
de alrededor de 1.700 millones de euros al año. El problema, señalan los expertos, es que no hay ninguna administración que tenga un cálculo oficial de esta cifra, sino que se ha preferido ignorar el problema
Francisco Peula, director de la ONG #Rethinking y autor de aquel estudio, explica que a día de hoy la cifra de 1.700 millones apenas ha cambiado. "Entre el 30% y el 40% de los costes de recogida de basuras de un municipio se destinan a tratar residuos que están dentro de sistemas colectivos
Hacker NewsDec 7

Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern

https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/rethinking-duplication-c1f85f1c0102

#HackerNews #Duplication #Anti-Pattern #Rethinking #CodeQuality #SoftwareDevelopment #MediumArticle

Duplication Isn’t Always an Anti-Pattern

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Medium
ddiluted1Nov 16

With the End of 10 already in play I'm having recurring conversations at our local #RepairCafe about what to suggest people do when they can't upgrade their device to Windoze 11.

Which way do you direct people?

#EndOf10 #upgrades #recycling #repurposing #rethinking

Install ChromeFlexOS
0%
Install Linux (any distribution)
84.6%
Stay on Windoze 10 and ignore any issues. (!)
15.4%
Buy a new Windoze 11 machine
0%
Poll ended at .
Hacker NewsAug 23, 2025

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

https://lwn.net/Articles/1030818/

#HackerNews #Rethinking #the #Linux #cloud #stack #for #confidential #VMs #LinuxCloud #ConfidentialComputing #VMs #SecurityTech #OpenSource

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs

There is an inherent limit to the privacy of the public cloud. While Linux can isolate virtual [...]

LWN.net
Osna.FMAug 5, 2025
The proposal by Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder to cease payments of citizen's income to Ukrainian refugees has been described as "thought-provoking" b... https://news.osna.fm/?p=10699 | #news #benefits #germany #rethinking
Is Germany Rethinking Benefits? - Osna.FM

Explore the debate surrounding Germany's welfare system and Ukrainian refugees as MP Steffen Bilger weighs in on Markus Söder's proposal.

Osna.FM
Hacker NewsJun 14, 2025

Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10982

#HackerNews #Rethinking #Losses #Diffusion #Bridge #Samplers #MachineLearning #Research #Arxiv

Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers

Diffusion bridges are a promising class of deep-learning methods for sampling from unnormalized distributions. Recent works show that the Log Variance (LV) loss consistently outperforms the reverse Kullback-Leibler (rKL) loss when using the reparametrization trick to compute rKL-gradients. While the on-policy LV loss yields identical gradients to the rKL loss when combined with the log-derivative trick for diffusion samplers with non-learnable forward processes, this equivalence does not hold for diffusion bridges or when diffusion coefficients are learned. Based on this insight we argue that for diffusion bridges the LV loss does not represent an optimization objective that can be motivated like the rKL loss via the data processing inequality. Our analysis shows that employing the rKL loss with the log-derivative trick (rKL-LD) does not only avoid these conceptual problems but also consistently outperforms the LV loss. Experimental results with different types of diffusion bridges on challenging benchmarks show that samplers trained with the rKL-LD loss achieve better performance. From a practical perspective we find that rKL-LD requires significantly less hyperparameter optimization and yields more stable training behavior.

arXiv.org
Andreas SternowskiMay 25, 2025

What can #spiritual #ecology do in concrete terms?

If the evil lies in our assumptions, in our #worldview, then that is where we must start. That is why #education is the first concrete measure.
As a society, we have become entrenched in a stubborn #materialistic way of thinking. But even convinced materialists must admit that this attitude toward #nature has put our planet in danger.
So the solution lies in #rethinking. Viewing all life as something #sacred is a reasonable alternative.

Andreas SternowskiDec 23, 2024
#Vedanta led to a #peaceful and #sustainable #civilization that lasted for millennia. Even though it had some flaws in its practical implementation, we see them clearly today and can avoid them. As #Advaita Vedanta, it provides an intellectual basis that is appealing to scientifically minded modern people. If we choose to rebuild our #worldview on this basis, we can hope that the #rethinking of people and, as a result, the rebuilding of our civilization can succeed. https://www.continentia-verlag.org/post/advaita-vedanta-and-the-future-of-civilization
Advaita Vedanta and the Future of Civilization

Advaita Vedanta offers a worldview that brings together consciousness and science. The transformation of civilization can succeed that way.

Continentia
Andreas SternowskiDec 16, 2024
Modifying our view of the world and of man, #rethinking our understanding of what a fulfilled human #life is, are the prerequisites for a #sustainable and #harmonious #civilization.