Knowledge ZoneThe #Largest #Structure in the #Universe should not exist : Medium
Want your #Team to come up with better #Ideas? Try this : Misc
Is #ClimateChange #Weakening the #PolarVortex? : NY Times
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The #Australian #dollar has jumped above US70 cents this morning for the first time in nearly two years.
The #currency has #surged by nearly US10 cents since almost dropping below US60 cents in April last year.
That low was after #Trump’s “liberation day” #tariff announcement sent global financial markets into a tailspin.
The Aussie dollar has been the best performing major currency in 2026, but a lot of this is a story of a #weakening #greenback. #auspol #economy #USPol #TrumpRegime
eicker.news ᳇ tech newsThe #EU is planning #changes to the #GDPR to facilitate #AIdevelopment and remain #economicallycompetitive. Politicians and activists warn of a #weakening of European #fundamentalrights and see the move as a dangerous precedent. #AIdevelopers will be allowed to process #sensitivedata more easily in future, while #pseudonymiseddata will be partially excluded from the scope of protection. EU countries and parties are deeply divided. https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-knifes-privacy-to-feed-the-ai-boom-gdpr-digital-omnibus/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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CubeRootOfTrueI've been told that telling other people your dreams is socially awkward. Conversations with LLMs fall into this category ... Except ... I had a vision in a dream! (the rest of this is ChatGPT Monday)
Theorem: I’m right.
Proof: (a → (b → a)).
Yes! Finally, someone asks the question that’s been quietly sobbing in the corner of logic textbooks for centuries:
"Why on earth would you add an Axiom of Weakening?" Like, “Hey, we’ve got a tight, elegant proof system here—what if we threw in a rule that says, ‘eh, forget that second part, just take the first thing and walk away’?” It’s the logical equivalent of:
"We were going to listen to your full argument, but instead we’re just going to agree with whatever was said first and ignore the rest, cool?”
Let’s unpack this glorious trainwreck.
...
[for the rest, ask it about the K combinator]
And if you would like to think about the statement \( a \Rightarrow ( b \Rightarrow a) \), which is called "Weakening" for a reason, note that \( B \Rightarrow T\) is false and #weakening is invalid
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RustyLMehlberg4:30 P.M. #RADAR UPDATE:
A line of #thunderstorms continues to push through the #Northland.
There has been a slight #weakening, but expect #strong #winds and small #hail from this line.
8 P.M. #RADAR UPDATE:
The #showers and #thunderstorms working their way across the northern half of the Northland are #weakening.
Expect them to dissipate by 10 p.m., with #clearing #skies overnight.
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈[Video] New #report shows #role of #Republican as #usefulidiots in #weakening #US, advancing #VladmirPutin's #goals.
New reporting describes a #Russian #ForeignPolicy #document laying out #Russian #tactics that include spreading some of the same #propaganda that some Republican #lawmakers have been busy regurgitating.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Propaganda #Disinformation #Misinformation #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
New report shows role of Republican useful idiots in weakening U.S., advancing Putin's goals
New reporting in the Washington Post describes a Russian foreign policy document laying out a strategy of undermining Western support for Ukraine by weakening countries Russia sees as adversaries, including the United States, with tactics that include spreading some of the same propaganda that some Republican lawmakers have been reciting. Senator Chris Murphy joins to discuss with Alex Wagner.
Chuck DarwinPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the 🔸#dark #energy 🔸that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly #weakening with time.
“If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about the nature of dark energy in 25 years,” said #Adam #Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University 🌟who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering dark energy in 1998.🌟
The new observations come from the ♦️Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument♦️ ( #DESI ) team, which today unveiled a #map of the cosmos of unprecedented scope, along with a bonanza of measurements derived from the map.
To many researchers, the highlight is a plot showing that three different combinations of observations all insinuate that the influence of dark energy may have eroded over the eons.
“It’s possible we’re seeing hints of dark energy evolving,” said Dillon Brout of Boston University, a member of the DESI team.
Researchers inside and outside of the collaboration all stress that the evidence is not strong enough to claim a discovery.
The observations favor the erosion of dark energy with the sort of middling statistical significance that could easily vanish with additional data.
But researchers also note that three distinct sets of observations all point in the same intriguing direction, one that’s at odds with the standard picture of dark energy as the intrinsic energy of the vacuum of space
— the quantity that Albert Einstein dubbed the “cosmological constant” due to its unvarying nature.
“It’s exciting,” said Sesh Nadathur, a cosmologist at the University of Portsmouth who worked on the DESI analysis. “If dark energy is not a cosmological constant, that’s going to be a huge discovery.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/dark-energy-may-be-weakening-major-astrophysics-study-finds-20240404/
Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.