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NordStreamYachton Six Math Essentials by Terence Tao

The paperback is 89 pages, the hardcover is 128. That's the only info Amazon shows me. And there's an audiobook, which is odd for a maths book.

NordStreamYachton Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone

If I remember correctly the first android phones were supposed to be keypad phones, and only the launch of the iPhone made them change course.

I remember some phones came with a keypad, but they disappeared quite quickly.

NordStreamYachton How to Lie With Statistics (1954)

My copy is from 1990 or so.

NordStreamYachton Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix It

I had a compaq laptop which worked fine until I got a dock, updated windows and after that, XP would only work properly while docked. The dock had a lot more devices, and obviously drivers were causing problems. But corporate had locked down the machine and I had to live with it until I was upgraded to a Thinkpad.

NordStreamYachton eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

Not so easy. They're a publicly traded company, the regulations are quite stringent.

NordStreamYachton Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona

I gave your test case to DeepSeek just now and it spat out something similar to the example in your article.

Then I said "Same question but set in modern China."

Very interesting result, some 4-5 paragraphs of text scrolled by only to be replaced with:

"Sorry I can't answer that right now. Let's talk about something else."

Update: I "insisted" by pointing out its bias and then it answered. Hilarious.

NordStreamYachton An ad-free Android TV

It's getting hard to get a dumb TV.

Try getting a display panel, like one of those used in restaurants to display menus.

NordStreamYachton France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

Backdoors on French fridges? I think they have a bigger problem right now with their front doors.

NordStreamYachton The plight of the public potty

Use the bidet. Tissues are for savages.

NordStreamYachton Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second

The more powerful the motor, the better the brakes and safety features.

I hope.

NordStreamYachton Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

Tim Apple's pal, His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Doctor Donald John Orange, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Towers of the Earth and Golf Courses of the Seas, and Conqueror of the Fake News Media in America in General and the Swamp in Particular.

NordStreamYachton Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are 'compromised'

He has to keep The Orange House happy.

NordStreamYachton Why were Victorian elites so effective?

Old boys club.

NordStreamYachton California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

The specific age will always be controversial because laws require specificity but social norms are varied. (Quantum levels vs continuous functions.)

In some societies it's okay to marry 6-year-old girls.

Slightly more rational societies link it to puberty in the female. Indeed, their leaders have written entire books to justify such behaviour.

NordStreamYachton When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

To the oilygarchy.

NordStreamYachton Best of British Design

Easier to buy a classic mini and drive it around than a spitfire.

mini FTW

NordStreamYachton TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14

True.

Why "Every number is a measured one" and not "every parameter is measured?"

Stopped reading at that point.

LLMs are like autotune. Imagine the Rolling Stones auto-tuned.

NordStreamYachton The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

Windows

NordStreamYachton Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

I have no idea why a fridge would need to be connected to anything but a power source.

I can understand some people would like their heating/cooling systems to be available online as a convenience, but a fridge?

NordStreamYachton Pentagon Investigating How F-35 Fighter Jet Parts Bound for US Were Diverted

"We take X issue very seriously."

> Lockheed said in a statement: "Our teams handle every shipment with the utmost diligence and safeguards to ensure the integrity of the F-35 program and the security of our allied partners.”

Pre-AI slop.

NordStreamYachton Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

Sweden was compromised years ago, Assange's case is proof.

NordStreamYachton [dead]

AI;DR

NordStreamYachton Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

Use maestral.app on Linux and macOS.

Also bypasses the free Dropbox account's limitations on 3 devices.

NordStreamYachton US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

So this is how "AI" is going to kill us all, by starting a world war with nukes?

NordStreamYachton Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Condemn Tech 'Oligarchs' and Demand A.I. Reforms

When these two are aligned, you know something is up.