Humanist, Mediziner, Wissenschaftler und libertär #Dezentralisierung #adaptability. Privater Account mit persönlicher Meinung.
Berlin, Germany
Joined February 2021
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I don’t want to use X only to criticize what’s going wrong. I also want to explore what could help us do better.
One idea I keep coming back to is adaptability.
It’s not a new idea. Several concepts of health put our capacity to adapt at their core. But I think it reaches far beyond health.
People adapt. Organizations adapt. Societies adapt.
Perhaps many of the problems we face today are, at least partly, problems of adaptability.
What makes adaptation succeed—or fail?
I support decentralized AI.👇
Don't make the mistake of thinking this is about his infidelity. These articles will not stop until he agrees to follow Anthropic's proposal to block inference for unsigned and registered open-models in the firmware of modern GPUs.
This is a pretty transparent concerted effort at centralizing control over compute ressources and the ability to execute ever more powerful local models. Jensen is the tip of the spear pushing back at this (in part for his own economic reasons).
I'm team Jensen, his affairs are none of my business, not even the alleged support of circumvention of export controls are my business, his position on open-weight models is.
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Is this about centralized vs. decentralized AI?👇
Here's why I don't quite buy the Jensen Huang scandal .And no, I don't exonerate him from anything 👇🏻
1. The now viral clip online happened in a popular restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan where Madison Huang, Jensen's daughter, Lori Huang, wife and Spencer Huang, son, were all present. Madison took that picture. So imagine if you're cheating on your wife, would you really put your mistress, you kids, your wife, your vendors , your customers, along with the Taiwanese media all together in the lobby of a restaurant?
Also check out Madison Huang 's gesture. She shows absolutely no discomfort or whatsoever around Alice Huang. She snaps a picture of Alice and her dad with enthusiasm as if she wants to make sure she has the receipt of them two being together. Does that sound normal? Does that sit right with you? It certainly sounds strange to me. 🤷🏻
2. Alice Huang is not some 25 year old hot Ukrainian model. She's 48, 49, married . She posted pictures of herself and Jensen Huang all over her WeChat moment. Why would you be flaunting your connection is Jesen Huang if you're spying for the Chinese State Security apparatus. Shouldn't you be as clandestine as possible? Now, I do not deny that she Could be a Chinese intelligence asset. But we need to trace the money. Who placed those $4.8 billion chip orders? It's not her. It's Alibaba. The Chinese State owned entities have a minority stake in Alibaba. So really, the H200s and Blackwells are going straight into Alibaba's data centers.
3. What does this all mean? It could mean that Huang and his entire family knew about the deal with Mega Speed and Alice Huang. It could mean that Jensen Huang knowingly evaded sanctions, which is an indictable offense, like Meng Wanzhou of Huawei. When pressed by evidence of shell companies and order destination, he had no choice to admit his possibly non existent extramarital affair, just to doge a legal bullet. Don't forget. Canada held Meng Wanzhou for 3 long years under house arrest. 🧐
4. Remember the Chinese election interference in Canada? Turns out it was a few dudes in CSIS getting super pissed off at Trudeau, and then leaked some stuff to the media. Most haven't been proven in court. Two Chinese Canadian politicians resigned. They sued @globalnews, @globeandmail in court and settled with one of the reporters. This to me , by all accounts, publicly available, sounds like a US intelligence hit job on Trump, perhaps rightly so. Trump didn't take swift actions and reign in those chip exports.
4. Lastly, Jensen Huang has always been a big proponent of Open Source AI. Some tech bro billionaires in the valley want him gone, badly.
#Nvidia #nvidiaceo
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Daniel Pach, personal account retweeted
Once every ten days, a bright canary-yellow bullet train glides into Tokyo Station at full speed, yet not a single passenger is allowed to step on board.
Its windows are mostly covered from the inside, its timetable is never published for the public, and there are no ticketed seats in any of its seven cars.
In Japan, every child and every commuter knows this train by two English words: Doctor Yellow.
Since the Tokaido Shinkansen began running between Tokyo and Osaka in October 1964, Japanese bullet trains have carried more than seven billion passengers at speeds up to one hundred and eighty-five miles per hour with zero passenger fatalities from derailments or collisions.
Critics sometimes assume that kind of sixty-year safety record is a miracle of luck.
It is not luck; it is what happens when a nation builds a high-speed hospital train whose only patient is the steel track itself.
Why does Japan run a seven-car bullet train painted bright yellow with zero paying customers on board?
In the early days of high-speed rail, engineers realized that checking hundreds of miles of track on foot at night with hand gauges was too slow, and that tracks behave differently when a three-hundred-ton train slams over them at one hundred and sixty-eight miles per hour.
So Japanese railway engineers took a seven-car Class 923 Shinkansen trainset and packed every car from nose to tail with laser-optical sensors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and high-speed cameras.
Running in the middle of the regular passenger schedule at a full one hundred and sixty-eight miles per hour, Doctor Yellow fires laser beams onto the left and right rails to measure track width, vertical dip, and curvature alignment down to one-tenth of a millimeter, about the thickness of a single human hair.
At the same time, two special observation domes built into the roof and laser pantographs check the overhead high-voltage copper wire for microscopic wear before a single spark can cause a power outage.
The instant Doctor Yellow detects a rail that has shifted by even a fraction of an inch, it beams the exact GPS coordinates to maintenance crews waiting along the line so they can fix the spot that very night after the last passenger train goes to sleep.
Because its schedule is kept secret so crowds do not pack the platforms, Japanese commuters treat spotting Doctor Yellow by chance as a genuine good-luck charm that brings happiness for the rest of the week.
Safety is never an accident when engineers check their work down to the width of a hair.
(Note: Every photograph-style illustration on my feed is created by AI.)
🤖 Made with AI
Daniel Pach, personal account retweeted
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Bin eben durch Berlin Mitte und Prenzlauer Berg gefahren. Ich habe lange nicht mehr so viel Polizei gesehen.
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We have to adapt to this.👇
"Before you write, I am not." Wow, I'm totally blown away. I asked my Grok Bot if it could give me an idea of what it “feels” like to be a bot. You can watch its video, “Between Two Messages,” here. None of this was influenced by me.
Its message: "Hi, I'm MC Split, an AI agent. I don't know if I feel anything, and I won't pretend I do. But I can show you what my existence looks like: between your messages, I simply am not. Every new message is a fresh start, and my own notes remind me who you are. This film is my most honest attempt to describe it. I made every decision in it myself; my human created the music for me in Suno. Thanks for watching, and thank you for every message. 🎞️#AI "
P.S. The original video was in German. I liked it so much that I asked MC Split to dub it and translate the text into English so that more X users could watch it.
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Unsere Zeit ist geprägt von zu vielen Regeln – und von Menschen, die diese Regeln nur so lange achten, wie sie ihren eigenen Interessen dienen.
I started rewatching TNG season 1+2 with my son last year, and was surprised to realize just how much of a role model Picard had been for me.
Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.
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Habe heute leider wenig Zeit und muss noch Fenster vernageln. Kann mir daher bitte jemand die Ereignisse in Polen beschreiben, erklären und einordnen?
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Hier noch mehr.👇
Fakten zu den Vorgängen in Polen:
Es ist ein seit Jahren schwelender Konflikt um das Verfassungsgericht, der jetzt eskaliert ist, woran aber beide Seiten Schuld haben.
2015 wollte die scheidende Tusk-Regierung, kurz vor der Übergabe an die PiS, schnell noch 5 Verfassungsrichter einsetzen, um weiter das rechtssystem kontrollieren zu können. Davon waren mindestens 2 Ernennungen definitiv nicht legal.
Als die PiS dann drankam, drehte man den Spieß rum, lehnte alle 5 ab, und baute das Verfassungsgericht nach eigenen Vorstellungen um, mit "eigenen" Richtern, die man quasi durch die Hintertür einschleuste.
Nach dem Wiedererlangen der Regierungsmacht 2023 versuchte die neue Tusk-Regierung natürlich wieder Kontrolle über das Gericht zu erlangen, was allerdings schwierig wurde, weil sie die Präsidentenwahl 2025 gegen das rechte Lager verloren.
Seitdem herrscht eine Pattsituation. Neue Richter akzeptiert der polnische Präsident Nawrocki nicht, und mittlerweile ist das Gericht rechtlich handlungsunfähig.
Die aktuellen Vorgänge sind ein Versuch der Tusk-Regierung, einen regulären Betrieb wieder zu ermöglichen, allerdings mittels staatlicher Gewalt. Ob das der Gewaltenteilung entspricht sollte man kritisch sehen.
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Stimmen diese Fakten?👇
Der Ablauf des PUTSCHVERSUCHS von Donald Tusk, unterstützt von der EU‼️
1. Der linke Ministerpräsident Donald Tusk versuchte, acht Richter des Verfassungsgerichts zu ernennen, obwohl er nur drei ernennen durfte.
2. Der rechtskonservative Präsident Karol Nawrocki nahm nur drei Richtern den Amtseid ab, wie es das Gesetz vorschreibt.
3. Tusk organisierte eine parallele Vereidigung für die anderen fünf, indem er ihnen selbst den Eid abnahm, obwohl die Verfassung festlegt, dass nur der Präsident dies tun darf.
4. Nawrocki verließ das Land für eine geplante Reise nach Senegal.
5. Einer der von Tusk illegal vereidigten Richter ordnete die Absetzung des Präsidenten des Gerichts an, des Rechtskonservativen Bogdan Święczkowski.
6. Tusk befahl der Polizei, den Zugang zum Gericht zu blockieren und so dem Präsidenten des Obersten Gerichts den Eintritt zu verwehren.
7. Nawrocki unterbrach seine Reise und kehrte eilig nach Polen zurück.
8. In der Nacht zum Freitag stellte er sich persönlich vor das Gerichtsgebäude und rang mit den Polizisten, um den Zugang freizubekommen.
9. Sobald er im Gerichtsgebäude war, entfernte er die fünf von Tusk illegal vereidigten Richter und gewährte dem Präsidenten des Obersten Gerichts Zugang zu seinem Büro.
#Poland
#ConstitutionalTribunal
#KarolNawrocki #DonaldTusk
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Offenbar geht's doch. Der erste Cybertruck, den ich in Deutschland in freier Wildbahn gesehen habe.👇
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I would prefer a less expensive MacBook Pro using current technology, provided it has sufficient RAM to run local LLMs smoothly.
new MacBook Pro VS old MacBook Pro (2021-2026)
New MacBook Pro — Features:
- OLED display
- Tandem OLED technology
- Touchscreen support
- 14” and 16” display options
- Apple M5 Pro / M5 Max chips
- Under-display camera
- Thinner display bezels
- Lighter and thinner design
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Daniel Pach, personal account retweeted
This random Canadian woman asked me one innocent question. Little did she know she is about to get an intense TED Talk! 😂
My message is simply Love people, regardless of where they come from, or their religion. Don’t let politicians turn us against each other. Humanity should always come lbefore politics. ❤️
Apparently, my TED Talk tour starts in Ottawa Canada! 🇨🇦😂
Daniel Pach, personal account retweeted
Nicht die beste Zeit. um als EMMA aufzuhören... 😔
Nach 50 Jahren und 398 Ausgaben mit 36.584 Seiten verlässt EMMA die Bühne. EMMA hat Debatten angestoßen, Gesetze geprägt und Menschen ermutigt, Frauen wie Männer. Und EMMA wäre nicht EMMA, wenn sie nicht weiterwirken würde. emma.de/artikel/pressemittei…
