"Crazy Joe"

One of the buckets was so full that its lid would not close.

Stephenson said the containers were stored next to a taxidermy exhibit, where children on tours sometimes stopped for presentations, sitting next to uranium for 30 minutes or more. By his calculation, those children could have received radiation dosages in excess of federal safety standards within three seconds, and adults could have suffered dangerous exposure in less than a half-minute.

People of European ancestry are more likely to be identified through the data, Erlich said, since the home testing kits have so far been more popular among whites than minorities in the US // ironic

The manifest for Falcon Heavy has grown to five contracted missions, including three commercial missions. While only one has a known price tag – a $130 million contract to launch the Air Force Space Command-52 satellite – the rocket's manifest is worth somewhere between $500 million and $750 million, given the price range per launch.

That means Falcon Heavy has enough contracts to cover the cost of its development, which was more than $500 million,

Interesting thought: the air-and-subs plan was very similar to the eventual plan for Malaya. neither were executed (from the UK side, because the forces were tied up fighting Germany and Italy, from the US side, because Dugout Doug dropped the ball). but submarines were effective!

This is quite right. Utter guff

Gove to NFU: yes it really is that bad, also, the US trade deal he dead.

Several MPs including Chris Leslie and ringleader Chuka Umunna hope to be at the forefront of a new “centrist” party modelled on Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche.

“They do not get on, they do not agree on fundamentals, there are personality clashes and they cannot do the basics,” a figure who has worked with the group complained.

Oui, l’ennemi a été détruit mais seulement en partie malgré les déclarations d’efficacité se référant essentiellement à des estimations statistiques et non à une réelle évaluation sur le terrain, donc au contact.
Non, l’ennemi n’a pas été atteint dans sa volonté de se battre. Le colonel Legrier souligne l’avantage informationnel au niveau stratégique acquis par le groupe terroriste « état islamique ». Celui-ci a su construire un environnement informationnel favorable au niveau international : l’occident a peur d’engager ses soldats et de devoir justifier des pertes ; l’occident a peur de l’influence des dommages collatéraux potentiels sur ses opinions publiques.

The Kahanists. I know what about some Moral Clarity about Labour disciplinary processes for bad tweets

DTAG stand

Materials made in a fractal pattern can be very porous, and in fact out in that protoplanetary disk around a young star, physical models show that objects can grow fractally until they're as big as ‘Oumuamua, and have those extremely low densities needed to account for its weird behavior.

Il ne nous a fallu que quelques semaines pour détruire sur l’ensemble du nord Mali les bases d’un ennemi du même volume supérieur à l’EI à Hajin. Nous avons à l’époque accepté d’avoir sept morts au combat. Est-ce la peur d’un enlisement ? Soyons sérieux. Si le politique le décide, un ou quatre GTIA, comme au Mali, peuvent se dégager aussi vite qu’on les engage. Ce n’est pas un problème technique, c’est juste une décision politique.

Il faut donc rappeler avec le général Desportes que la victoire militaire doit toujours être pensée au prisme de son objectif politique et qu’elle ne peut se passer d’un engagement au contact : « La guerre à distance est un leurre : elle produit un effet militaire mais pas d’effet politique. La “projection de puissance”, c’est-à-dire la projection de destruction, sans “projection de forces”, de soldats sur le terrain ne fonctionne pas ; elle détruit sans maîtriser la reconstruction et crée le chaos. Il y a une vraie illusion de l’efficience aérienne : certes, elle permet quelques économies initiales mais elle ne conduit jamais au résultat espéré. À la fin des fins, il est toujours nécessaire, d’une manière ou d’une autre, de contrôler l’espace. »

"Partners and Apple Authorized Service Providers are graded and compensated according to metrics, including No Trouble Found. If the reported symptoms are not present and reproducible it will negatively impact the partner," said one with apparent insider knowledge // Apple's crushing of the channel is incredibly savage and they seem to have got away with it

CrowdStrike says Russian hackers (which the company calls internally "Bears") have been the most prolific and efficient hacker groups last year, with an average breakout time of 18 minutes and 49 seconds.

They're followed by North Korean groups (Chollimas) with two hours and 20 minutes, Chinese hacker groups (Pandas) with four hours, Iranians (Kittens) with five hours and nine minutes, and cybercrime gangs (Spiders) with roughly nine hours and 42 minutes.

The 200 examples do not relate to 200 separate individuals. They relate to 111 individuals reported of whom only 20 were members // so we're now meant to have universal jurisdiction over every dog on the Internet

They also sought to gauge Russia’s reaction with questions: How would Moscow view China’s move into its traditional sphere of influence? Would it be more palatable if China deployed private mercenaries instead of uniformed men?

“People who were exposed to dengue before had antibodies and those antibodies protected them from Zika.”

it is striking that the system spent long seconds trying to decide what exactly it sees in front (whether that be a pedestrian, bike, vehicle or whatever else) rather than making the only logical decision in these circumstances, which was to make sure not to hit it. There are several reasons for it: first, people will often verbalize their decisions post factum. So a human will typically say: "I saw a cyclist therefore I veered to the left to avoid him". Huge amount of psychophysical literature will suggest a quite different explanation: a human saw something which was very quickly interpreted as a obstacle by fast perceptual loops of his nervous systems and he performed a rapid action to avoid it, long seconds later realizing what happened and providing a verbal explanation". T

so the 'bots go to sea but not the jet? does that mean they will be integrated on the F-35B? having them launch from the carrier and RV with a land-based strike package seems unlikely in terms of endurance. or is Tempest going to be a sea jet?

As recently as 2016, Umunna was retweeting and praising articles by Rutherford arguing that a “pro-EU” direction would be a “disaster” for Labour and attacking “liberal progressive politics”. Yet, by October of last year, Umunna was arguing that “progressive politics was back.” It remains to be seem which of these postures he feels is most profitable in the longer term.

A handy reference

This is totally weird, even if strange things do happen at sea. why not send them by rail?

on a pirate edition of Windows server 2012

“Some shipworms have as many as ten different symbiont species,” Dr. Distel said.

Nigel Edwards, the influential chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank, believes a "significant unpicking" of Mr Lansley's reforms is on the cards and in time they will be judged as "one of the most major public policy failures" of all time.

If that is the case, it begs the question: why did the government go to all the trouble of pushing ahead with them in the first place?

Specialization is key, Simon says, and hidden champions often control most of their supply chain, only relying on suppliers when absolutely necessary. These kinds of specialists work closely with clients to find solutions for their needs, which helps these firms create better products.

Datasets used to train autonomous vehicles almost never contain babies sitting in the road // a very interesting point - including the unexpected events you need in the training dataset implies a combinatorial explosion in the size of the dataset. one way out is building compositional models that seem closer to natural intelligence but although it's not stated here, this brings you back to the standard problems of classical AI

Telling

The state is targeting 60% renewable electricity by 2030, 100% zero-emissions electricity by 2045. It's using old-fashioned energy portfolio standards, which are tested & proven. Why reinvent the wheel?

Labour sources said panicking Conservative whips had discussed the possibility with them of accepting a Labour motion and voting with the opposition in order to avoid an embarrassing defeat. Ultimately, however, they decided to accept a humiliating loss rather than appear to join forces with the opposition.

It kind of depends on having the housing. Also, relearning the lessons of the 1990s..

Not bad

Campaign ads seem to be competing over which candidate has killed the most Palestinians.

Stigler's law, which was of course not discovered by Stigler

Sense

Helpful

Languages are being created as well as lost

Wut

The team then set the artificial intelligence loose to infer the histories that best fit actual genomic data. Eventually, the system concluded that a previously unidentified human group had also contributed to the ancestry of people of Asian descent. // I think there is a logical flaw here

Useful. But I can't stand the lobbyist-stew legislation with stupid acronym names any more

Not just *a* generation of swine, *the* generation of swine - the process by which swine are generated

Oh Jesus, DAUs and video views as the organising principle of a totalitarian society. Wait 'til they find each other out though

Flannigan said, “Wireless connectivity is really everything in our industry in terms of people really just don’t want to wire things anymore. Nobody is plugging in anymore.”

Huh

I described Ledumahadi mafube as a creature of elephant-like size and shape, with a head and neck resembling a stiff, tiny-headed snake and a tail resembling that of a monitor lizard. (I promise, it sounds epic in Zulu.)

Physarum polycephalum exhibits the same kind of economically irrational behaviour as has been described in humans

So that's what it was

The smart is moving on

Superempowered individuals

There’s a further advantage for Trump in aligning himself with yellow journalism. The tabloids offer a sordid vision of society, where the mainstream image of celebrities elides their secretly miserable lives (whether because of addiction, aging, infidelity, or bankruptcy). In this nihilistic world, everyone is corrupt and every public statement is a lie. And if everyone is equally bad and untrustworthy, there’s no reason to hold Trump to any higher standard.

Trump dismissed the missile launch as a “hoax,” McCabe writes. “He thought that North Korea did not have the capability to launch such missiles. He said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.”

some European countries – notably the UK after Brexit – are seeking to re-impose the “hukou”

Sunrun finances its initial costs by taking on debt and raising capital from what are called tax equity investors. Only a few dozen companies have the appetite for tax credits and financial sophistication to be in this pool, including Google, JPMorgan Chase, and General Electric, says Joe Osha, an analyst who covers energy technology at JMP Securities LLC. They invest in Sunrun not to generate significant cash returns but to reap tax benefits

Clement Vandenborre, counterintelligence head in Belgium’s intelligence service, has been placed under house arrest over suspicions that he might have spied for Russia

We should accept that China will be a global tech power in the future and start managing the risk now, rather than pretending the west can sit out China’s technological rise.

NHTSA's analysis was so incompetent that it's quite possible Tesla's data people had no idea how to reproduce it

I'm afraid your parents are drug dealers.

Jeremy Corbyn is set to hold talks in Brussels next week with Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, as he seeks to break the Brexit impasse and persuade Theresa May to sign up to a customs union.

Unlike prior network upgrades that focused on the core, Juniper anticipates that 5G will drive more transformation in the edge and especially in the metro. “True transformation is going to start there and move into the core," he said. "Because of this shift to 5G and moving content closer to the consumers, a lot of traffic is going to reside in the metro."

The sobering thing for me was the realisation that I only heard these moderate voices because I was stuck with them – this being the whole point of the programme, to go back to those I had heard from before. In the normal run of things they wouldn’t have made the cut and they would never have got on air. What good is a moderate, considered voice in a news vox pop? If I had been doing a radio phone-in and one of this lot had been put through to me, I’d be mouthing annoyance through the glass at my producer, asking what they were playing at.

Answer: quite possibly not, so they definitely ought to wind their necks in about brains!

But other people briefed on the effort said the administration wanted to complete its trade negotiations with China before introducing the order.

The outbreak of the war came as a disturbing shock to Goodall, who had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, "rather 'nicer'" in their behavior

Nooo

Taken together with the evidence that there are far fewer undecided ex-Labour voters now than there were at the start of the 2017 campaign. This means that Labour has to win more voters from elsewhere (most likely Liberal Democrats and Conservatives), rather than reconnecting with its own undecided ex-supporters.

fake truffle farms or rubber plantations.

“The trouble is that some of these reform politicians think they have a right to vote their conscience,” he said. “In this neighborhood, we think that when you’re elected you have to vote the way the people want you to vote.”

Rakuten announced plans to invest in US-based virtualised RAN (vRAN) vendor Altiostar, as the internet giant pressed-on with plans to launch a mobile network using vRAN in Japan in October.

So that's who's ended up with it

unknown persons attaching party colours to innocent bystanders without their knowledge was not without precedent. Death as a result of this was also repeated

This sounds like heresy, but arguably the history of the Royal Navy since WW2 is that of failing to adequately retain enough technical personnel to keep the fleet at sea. For large periods of time the shortage of trained personnel saw ships paid off and scrapped rather than kept in commission.

malloc() considered harmful

Net lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) shrank to £500m, compared with £700m in 2017