Havana Syndrome involves the Russian intelligence services and radio frequency / microwave weapons. U.S. intelligence is wrong to say it has no foreign source.

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Here's the lay of the land in the race for the white house in 2024, as well as my takes on various aspects and debates on this year's presidential election.

What is scaling in large-scale multi-tenant data systems, and how does that compare to single-tenant data systems? How does per-tenant scaling relate to system-wide scaling? How do scale-to-zero and cold starts come into play? Answering these questions is chapter 6 of The Architecture of Serverles

frequency of persuasive bullshitting (i.e., bullshitting intended to impress or persuade others) positively predicts susceptibility to various types of misleading information

the "personal slush fund" model of philanthropy

In Musk’s case, according to the Times, that meant giving millions of dollars to Cameron County, Texas. Of course, that decision was announced shortly after a SpaceX rocket explosion littered the region with shrapnel. Other donations went to two schools — one walled off inside a SpaceX compound and another built next to a housing compound for employees.

“The way I see Elon Musk is that he’s really pushing the limits of the alternative approaches to philanthropy,” Pasic said.

Advanced Strategy to Account for Correlations, Risk, and Returns in your Portfolio Leveraging Hierarchical Structures

Research shows that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. Studies have found immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated and undocumented immigrants are 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime.

“nobody seemed to have a definable skill set. There was no one with engineering, planning, language or communications skills.”

Given the information available, given the mistakes in Corso’s book, and given his inflation of his own importance during his military career, it seems that the logical conclusion is that Corso’s claims are of little value. They added nothing to what was already known, and certainly have detracted from the whole of the Roswell case. When his claims break apart, those who know little about Roswell become convinced that the whole case is built on structures similar to those built by Corso.

What are ML artifacts?

Trump’s view would effectively hand the president a dictatorship