Quasi-Contrarian, Crypto, Quantisation. My heroes have always been engineers.

Joined April 2014
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🌞Phillip Somerville retweeted
1/ Standard transformers have a fundamental topological flaw: they cannot track dynamic states over time without running out of layers. Once a state representation reaches the top layer of the feedforward stack, the model's ability to update its belief collapses. 🧵
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Last year, China reached 3.5 TW total installed generating capacity. With a generous 33% wind CF:- That’s a not-so-staggering 5% of deliverable generating capacity.
China has ranked #1 globally in installed wind power capacity for 15 straight years. By November 2025, installed wind capacity had surpassed 600 GW, more than any other country by a wide margin. The energy transition is operating at a scale many still struggle to comprehend.
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Tickle paid nothing - not a cent - to lodge his AHRC complaint or run his litigation. Sall Grover, an ordinary mum (and extraordinary woman), has already had to raise over a million dollars just to defend herself and appeal. The High Court will cost even more. All because she refuses to lie: men are not women. Her crowdfunder is here: gigglecrowdfund.com/

“It’s important to note that the current government is trying to dismiss this issue as a ‘culture war’ while they’re simultaneously trying to rebrand themselves as the party against misogyny, not connecting the dots that refusing to acknowledge what a woman is & cement women’s rights in law is an act of extreme misogyny”
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Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…
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Hey sheeple! Lost your bounce lately? 🦘 Don’t pay $50! Don’t pay $39.99! Don’t even pay $9.99 online!!! Just-don’t-even! 🐑
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Out of bounds on the full by Abul.
Next Thursday, ABS will release data on NOM for calendar 2025. Likely to show NOM between 300k & 320k. Nowhere near 480k in NPLT for same period that some political parties, think tanks, media, etc have been peddling. Will they apologise for misleading the public? Not likely.
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🌞Phillip Somerville retweeted
Australian net long term and permanent arrivals for the year to April came in at 223.2k, the highest figure on record.
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🌞Phillip Somerville retweeted
This movie got so close to reality that the government shut it down before it could be finished. On the Silver Globe (1988) is one of the strangest sci-fi films ever made. Directed by Andrzej Żuławski, it follows a colony of astronauts whose descendants gradually transform history into myth and religion. The film was nearly lost forever when the Polish communist government shut down production in 1976 and ordered much of it destroyed while it was about 80% complete. Years later, Żuławski recovered enough footage to finish the film. Missing scenes are replaced by his narration over documentary footage of modern Poland, giving the movie an even more surreal and unique quality.
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To cover for the War On Americans, Purdue were delivered into purdah.
One million Americans died out of Afghanistan this Century.
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One million Americans died out of Afghanistan this Century.
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Whole lotta hypothecation going on.
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This is extraordinarily rare. In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented. An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor. The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts. In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination. Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light... I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (arnaudbertrand.substack.com/…) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it. Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period. In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want. In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again. Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.
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What’s happened to #BTC past year?
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Posted a research note on a fixed nonlinear iterator showing natural-language byte streams exert a reproducible manifold pressure signature: active-sector self-dwell suppression relative to shuffle vacuum, replicated under coupled quaternion lift. unitambo.wordpress.com/2026/…
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Legislation does not cover dna tests voluntarily given. Allianz is very interested in your family tree.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
'Ucrainenii au încărcat și au direcționat drona pentru aruncarea în aer a terminalului de petrol, contînd și pe alăturatul depozit de azotat de amoniu. Asta ar fi ras instantaneu cu totul cam jumătate din Constanța și, mai ales, ar fi șters urmele, exploziile spulberînd orice firicel din drona controlată permanent de atacatorul ucrainean. Dacă nimerea, drona era rusească - vorba unui amic pe care-l prețuiesc mult. Doar că drona s-a înfipt și s-a blocat în balizele antipoluare. N-a mai putut mișca. În tot acest timp, operatorul ucrainean al dronei avea permanent control vizual satelitar, în timp real, prin camerele video ale sculei, perfect funcțională cu excepția agățării ei în balize. Operatorul a văzut astfel că niște unii s-au apropiat și că filmează drona de la nici 10 metri distanță. Deci obiectul delict era nu doar blocat, ci deconspirat și ușor atribuibil statului producător și utilizator cu mare succes. E plin internetul de povești eroice despre lovirea cu dînsele, în două rînduri, a Podului Crimeei, între altele. Cînd ucrainenii au văzut,  în timp real, că românii filmează drona neatinsă au sunat la București înainte s-o detoneze controlat. Au sunat nu din dragoste aliată, ci pentru a distruge în siguranță electronica în care încărcaseră traseul și ținta prestabilite. Altfel s-ar fi dovedit cu probe pipăibile că au țintit cu premeditare ce au țintit. Pierdea controlului dronei prin bruiaj rusesc - adică varianta oficializată inclusiv de la cel mai înalt nivel în România - e o harneală pentru vîrsta unui școlar neatent de clasa a patra. Las' că rușii s-a lins pe bot de Starlink-ul american cu antena la vedere pe drona filmată. "Pierderea controlului" e anulată de telefonul de la ucraineni care a anuntat detonarea dispozitivului pentru - repet - distrugerea probei. Pe scurt: ne-a ferit Dumnezeu. Ne-a ferit numai bunul Dumnezeu, cu niște balize antipoluare agățate de coada unei monstruozități cu care România - deci NATO - trebuia tîrîtă în război, nenorociților!!!" Sorin Faur, jurnalist
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