Ari Ahonen

Walter Koenig, who played exuberant Russian navigator Pavel Chekov on the original “Star Trek” series and many of the franchise’s ensuing films, has died at the age of 90. https://cnn.it/48iDfQk

Tekoälyn työllistävä vaikutus: Bank of America palkkasi 1000 ihmistä paikkaamaan tekoälyn löytämiä tietoturva-aukkoja Aukot löytyivät Anthropicin Mythos-kielimallin avulla. Kyseinen kielimalli on annettu käyttöön vain kouralliselle yrityksiä, joista BoA on yksi. dawn.fi/uutiset/2026... #uutiset

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

Donald has lifted sanctions on Russian diesel. We will use the money to help Iran. Who are fighting the USA. Donald is paying us to help kill American soldiers.

This prize was awarded because the Ice Cube observatory has been fantastically successful at detecting neutrinos from the cosmos (especially really intriguing high-energy ones) and also because “instead of building a big tank of water, why don’t we just kit out a whole ice cap” is a really neat idea

Nerokasta🤩 Hyvää huomenta ☕

Only in Finland: ammonium chloride liquorice liver casserole. No, really, I'm not kidding you www.saarioinen.fi/tuotteet/sal...

LLMs could be the end of the “shut up and calculate” approach to fundamental physics. (Not that Kyle is part of that.) When the computer is better at calculating than you are, you might be forced to actually think about things.

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs go.nature.com/4ifQl7n

Soon Apple will un–fold its new iPhone Pros #Apple #iPhone

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

Elokuva: Spider-Man: Brand New Day Ennakko–odotus: Hämppis–sarja on ollut ehkä tasaisin Marvelin supersankarileffoista, mutta tason laskua (ja 3. piirrettyä) odotellessa #elokuva

The United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes, after African nations urged the UN to right a centuries-old wrong.

Claude has produced a formalized proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Of course FLT had already been proven by Andrew Wiles, but this proof is simpler, and “formalized” means machine-verifiable. The news isn’t the proof, but the form. Still too long to fit in a page margin, though.

Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.

Dolly Parton was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities go.nature.com/4wQ2DH8

Wille Rudeman and Mari Rantanen. They know what they're doing.

Elokuva: Obsession Syy lipun ostoon: omaperäinen idea/käsis; ts. studiot yms. tahtovat nykyisin kierrättää vanhaa (eli ”ryöstöviljellä” omia IP:eitään)

With the solar eclipse coming up on Wednesday evening it’s good to draw people’s attention to this useful and timeless* explainer of different astronomical phenomena. * since 2014 in its original Twitter form

Joidenkin päättäjien paineensietokyky on nollissa tai miettivät vain poliittisia pisteitä - kriisin uhalla. Käsittämätöntä että sisäministeri vaatii Espanjaa pois Schengenistä päivän vaikuttamisoperaation takia erillisrajavalvonnassa olevalla alueella. Suomen oma asema vaatii EU-solidaarisuutta.

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

Day 1613 of my 3 day war. This could be first time in history that a country occupies all of the land around an inland sea, yet manages to lose both naval and air supremacy over it. But that's what we've done with Sea of Azov. I remain a master strategist.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

I just backed Designed in California: An Apple history podcast on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/des...

Surprising: frontier models (Claude, ChatGPT, Deepseek V4) produce the most predictable text of any local AI model or human text I've ever tested. Not surprising: Finnegans Wake is off the charts, by far least predictable—Shannon & Lydia Liu proved right—and Hemingway the most predictable human.

A snippet. "How is it possible to train someone from zero to this point in 9 months? They're like professionals!" -An US Special Forces soldier who was embedded in and trained with a Finnish conscript para-jaeger long range recon patrol in the Northern Griffin 2025 winter warfare exercise. #FDF

I think about this all the time.

Reposting this for the evening/afternoon US crowd: I wrote about what happens if an eensie weensie black hole from the dawn of time passes through your brain. Yes, seriously. There was an actual scientific journal paper about it and everything.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In its first year of operation, the VRO is expected to capture images of more objects than all objects optically observed in the history of humanity (!)

I just backed Ollie’s Arcade Expansion by @iconfactory.com. More Retro Games on https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/ollies-arcade-expansion-more-retro-games?ref=thanks-copy

The question of whether LLMs are conscious is now settled. @erikhoel.blogsky.venki.dev’s approach is agnostic about which theory of consciousness is right. Empirically, LLMs are equivalent to a lookup table, which is manifestly not conscious. But a future A.I. system that learns on the fly might be.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Day 1417 of my 3 day war. My invasion has now lasted longer than our war with Nazi Germany. With American supplies & Ukrainian soldiers helping, they advanced 1800km in that time. We have managed about 60. I remain a master strategist.

Pretty nice metaphor for humanity and AI. (Also pretty weird engineering safety use case to plan for.)

CERN hits one exabyte of stored experimental data from the LHC #LHC 📈 One million terabytes of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider have now been sent to the CERN storage system. Find our more: home.cern/news/news/co...

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

"Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica."

You might hate your job. But at least you're not a russian general invited to a meal & drinks with Putin next to an open window.

Quick guide to Tomahawk cruise missile variants TLAM - land attack TSAM - anti-ship GLCM - ground launched TACTOM - improved “tactical” version TACO - version talked about but never delivered to Ukraine

Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

The fact that human language can be broken down on a mathematical level like this to such an extent, WITHOUT building a genuinely thinking mind behind it, is an immense and deeply unexpected discovery about language and cognition. This is something that shouldn’t be possible, and now it is.

A convicted felon says will meet with an indicted for war criminal to discuss the invasion the UN declared illegal. It's not a "peace summit", it's a criminal conspiracy.

Have agreed to meet Donald for his first 1-1 employee review of 2025.

That’s it. The rapid establishment of ICE as an all-purpose, super well-funded secret police with zero accountability is *the* main story right now.

I have set auto-translate on Donald's texts so "two weeks" comes out as "too weak". It's more accurate.

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...