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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2025-01-27 at 19:16

First they came for the immigrants, and I did nothing, because I wasn't an immigrant.

...#ICE arrests 956 in 1 day as #Trump admin #immigration crackdown ramps up...

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/immigrant-arrests-ice-raids-trump-administration

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2025-01-23 at 14:02

We'll pick up the slack on wind and solar production in the US as well... "From 2017 to 2020, during a period of federal inaction, cities, states, businesses, and the public rose to the challenge to uphold our nation's commitments—and now, we are ready to do it again."

[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bloomberg-philanthropy-cover-us-climate-dues-after-paris-withdrawal-2025-01-23/

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2025-01-22 at 14:43

Taking a dive into DeepSeek this week. Note that we are actually able to do this with DS. OpenAI's o1 and o4 are blackboxes that only open for money.

... DeepSeek-R1 achieves performance comparable to OpenAI-o1 across math, code, and reasoning tasks. To support the research community, we have open-sourced DeepSeek-R1-Zero, DeepSeek-R1, and six dense models distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based on Llama and Qwen...

[1] https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-12-13 at 16:46

Hey @gyptazy, for your devops work in #BSD, do you use IaC for provisioning and managing resources? Ansible, for instance? Or Nomad? Looking for something that would allow a mid-level platform engineer to work with BSD who has only worked with Linux.

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-12-08 at 03:05

This is a big deal for #agriculture, #climate, and risk modelers. The GenCast model that DeepMind has been working on is also not another LLM, which is refreshing.

... In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind researchers said they found that GenCast outperforms the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ ENS — apparently the world’s top operational forecasting system...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-12-06 at 23:06

Interesting read. Why Linus Torvalds struggles with #Docker : security is leaky; containers are not properly isolated. Modules are shared across containers. Etc... #Kubernetes solves some of this by enforcing security in orchestration. But not all of it. Need to take a deep dive into jails (@mwl). There's been a lot of movement lately in #FreeBSD with #podman. The security posture is greater with jails. But don't understand how.

[1] https://www.opensourceforu.com/2024/12/analysing-linus-torvalds-critique-of-docker/

[2] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmjail

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-11-13 at 02:22

... According to the report, which was published Tuesday, continuing to bypass the 1.5 °C threshold is “extremely risky,” as the longer it is breached, “the greater the risk of crossing tipping points for both polar ice sheets; many land glaciers; and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is a vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences global weather patterns....

[1] https://iccinet.org/statecryo24/

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-11-09 at 18:02

Great post-mortem on #haris2024. I sense a pivot to the middle in the Democratic Party in the next election cycle. #uspol

[#]inflation ... small business owners would talk about the price of gas or bread, rendering any attempted explanation of global pressures responsible for that ineffective at best... they didn’t know who Harris was or what she stood for... only one occasion when someone mentioned stricter #taxes on billionaires or any similar policies...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/09/us-voters-kamala-harris-donald-trump-republican

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-09-28 at 14:17

(2/2) Cheap energy has the potential to drive growth in data centers and jobs in downstream industries (cars). The EU is ahead of the US on the infrastructure to deliver on this. But the US market economy is such that it's actually siphoned off business from the EU (fewer regulations). Regardless, Brookings Institute published a paper that argues the US economy could benefit (wage and GDP growth) from making progress on playing catch-up on green energy capacity.

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-economic-impacts-of-clean-power

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-09-28 at 14:16

(1/2) Happy Saturday. Two papers on #decarbonization and #economics. The first is a report from the #European Commission on strengths and weaknesses of the EU economy and how alternative #energy positions the EU for the next decade. Europe missed the train when it comes to computing, but sees itself as a leader on green energy.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/topics/strengthening-european-competitiveness/eu-competitiveness-looking-ahead_en

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-09-21 at 21:07

... California’s #agriculture sector uses about 40 percent of all the state’s water, or 80 percent of its consumed water. With less water available, agriculture must adjust... #groundwater #aquifers have more storage potential than surface water reservoirs. So, instead of devoting decades to build more dams and reservoirs that are subject to evaporation and overflow, water should be diverted into these depleted aquifers...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-key-to-fix-californias-inadequate-water-storage-put-water-underground-scientists-say/

[2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310079121

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Written by Kyle Taylor on 2024-09-18 at 13:28

...Like Capital, it discusses the evolution of income and #wealth #inequality over history. But it emphasises historical contingency and, most of all, the role of politics and of collective mobilisation... #Piketty rejects the thesis that very large inequalities are the inevitable outcome of a well-functioning market economy...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/18/nature-culture-and-inequality-by-thomas-piketty-review-mind-the-gap

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