Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano@respublicae.eu

RT @bopanc: Around 45% of Germany's power comes from fossile fuels, 33% from coal.
Current technology can't power an economy the size of Germany solely with renewables.
But despite commitment to combating climate change, Germany makes itself dependent on fossile fuels.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647991717906337795

RT @bopanc: The fear of nuclear in Germany, where health insurances cover fraudulent homeopathy, is near-religious.
There's no permanent nuclear waste storage because of legal requirement for it to be safe for *1 million years.*
In green Finland the safety requirement is 100k years

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647991680803454977

RT @CEP_LSE: Maths support online,
Disadvantaged students gain,
Grades and hope increase.

Online tutoring works: Experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children
By @lucas_gortazar @claudiahupkau & @toniroldanm

Read: https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATIONS/abstract.asp?index=9999

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647973099898281985

What a policy debacle. Putting national security, climate, and human health at risk to satisfy a fetish.
RT @_HannahRitchie: Share of electricity from coal (Germany vs. its W. European neighbours)

🇩🇪 Germany: 31%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 11%
🇬🇷 Greece: 10%
🇮🇹 Italy: 8%
🇮🇪 Ireland: 7%
🇪🇸 Spain: 3%
🇬🇧 UK: 1.9%
🇫🇷 France: 1%
🇦🇹 Austria: 0.2%
🇵🇹 Portugal: 0.1%
🇧🇪🇳🇴🇸🇪 Belgium, Norway, Sweden: <0.1%

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647960340217339904

Productive thread on alignment - moving the conversation forward.
RT @ben_golub: And with better AI, we will emulate minds better.

So now the AI has a chatbot that is a Reasonable Moral Person, and can be programmed to constrain its behavior as a function of what this "Ultimate Judge" says.

(The exact function can be left a bit vague for now.)

6/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647793078562897920

@stevenc88496160 Sure, go ahead.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647711369712500739

Maravilloso artículo de @gascondaniel sobre la normalización del odio como principal punto del programa político de Podemos (y otros populistas).
RT @gascondaniel: Tú a pelearte y yo a cobrar https://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/opinion/2023/04/16/pelearte-cobrar-86053119.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=btn-share

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647669444339015680

RT @spignal: This quote from the Indian foreign minister @DrSJaishankar has proved enduring.
"Europe has to get out of the mindset that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems but the world’s problems are not Europe’s"

But surely this is nonsense? Every bit should be rebuffed. A 🧵

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647616713100328961

In shutting down nuclear energy, the German "Greens" have allowed the symbolic to override both health (coal is far more deadly than nuclear) and the environment (climate change).

They will scream "principles" but it is a win for political expediency, raw and brutal.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647602926750257152

RT @AlecStapp: Hard to believe that Germany is shutting down its last nuclear power plants and restarting coal plants — switching from one of the safest energy sources to the deadliest.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647600461447409667

This is so true! Time zone management is also a mess on Android. Why not a "time/place where you will be" combination? I have long been bothered by this.
RT @lessig: Just published in Jammernd (meaning 'whining'):

Calendar: What am I missing? Why isn’t this (fix) obvious?

https://link.medium.com/4PQuv6OP2yb

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647597089466068993

RT @JavierBlas: Germany is right now shutting down the Isar 2, Neckarwestheim 2 and Emsland nuclear power stations, the last three remaining in operation.

From tonight, it will solely rely on renewables — and lots of coal and gas (plus nuclear imports from France). Energiewende stupidity.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647452791701471232

Maybe the biggest insight of watching these videos is how much the revolution results from a combination of a few key shortcuts ("drop""attention"), with massive raw computer power.
Nothing very deep statistically about "deep learning," except the surprise of how well it works.
RT @lugaricano: This 2023 MIT course is a fantastic survey of the state of the art today in neural networks/deep learning/LLMs etc. Easy to follow with just basic knowledge of matrix alg…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647380589689880577

This 2023 MIT course is a fantastic survey of the state of the art today in neural networks/deep learning/LLMs etc. Easy to follow with just basic knowledge of matrix algebra.
#EconTwitter
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtBw6njQRU-rwp5__7C0oIVt26ZgjG9NI

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@AngelLamuno Elecciones de alcalde en Chicago han resultado en un alcalde aliado conel movimiento para "desfinanciar a la policía"

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647313849467510784

SF's epic failure despite natural beauty, tech supremacy and top universities is the ultimate triumph of ideology over reason.

I hope Chicago's new mayor is paying attention.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647306332251324417

@carlbfrey @DAlperovitch Link
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17012v2.pdf

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RT @carlbfrey: New paper comparing GPT-3.5 & GPT-4 performance on college physics problems.

It shows that in just a few months, AI has made a leap from the 39th to the 96th percentile of human level performance.

Now imagine were it will be in 10 years.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647287448211267586

Lauch of Starship (the rocket that may take us to Mars) is on Monday!

Also best proof of how insidious social media is: the richest person in the world, single handedly driving space exploration AND electrification, chasing the validation of strangers on Twitter.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1647277450890559491

@ben_golub @LongFormMath Ordered!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1646935159713808385