psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Wer eher nach Infos zur Wahl selbst, zu den Inhalten und zur Politik sucht - es gibt eine sehr schöne Webseite des Jugendring Düsseldorf: gehwaehlen-duesseldorf.de/25/gehwaehlen-duesseldorf.deHome - gehwählen25 - Kommunalwahl in Düsseldorf und NRW 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Es sind nur Statistiken zu den offiziellen Daten der KandidatInnen, die Open Data Düsseldorf zur Verfügung stellt. Keine Zusatzinhalte, nur Auswertungen, alles sehr simpel und zum Teil ausgegoren, einiges ändere ich noch. Jegliches Feedback gerne hier oder per E-Mail (siehe Impressum). 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Interessiert an Statistiken zu #Düsseldorf? Ich habe mal ein kleines Dashboard über die anstehenden Ratswahlen gebastelt: wahlen-duesseldorf.replit.app (Die mobile Ansicht ist im Moment nicht wirklich nutzbar, also am besten am Computer) Zur Erklärung 👇wahlen-duesseldorf.replit.app 100
Reposted by @psirotkin.bsky.socialOpal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years. 14386173600
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025With the prompt, ChatGPT (the free version!) guessed within ~15km in Costa Rica, for example. 010
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Although I assume this is not a good assessment of how useful LLMs can be. Compare what happens if you use a tailored prompt:astralcodexten.comTesting AI's GeoGuessr GeniusSeeing a world in a grain of sand 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Aktuelles Beispiel: @jakluge.de im heutigen Spiegel-Artikel von @benjaminbidder.bsky.social (€)spiegel.de(S+) Donald Trump gegen Wladimir Putin: Wie verwundbar ist Russlands Wirtschaft?Donald Trump droht Wladimir Putin mit Sanktionen, die ebenso radikal sind wie riskant. Könnte der »Mann der Zölle« Moskau tatsächlich in die Schranken weisen, oder geht der Schuss für die USA eher nac... 010
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Ich bin kein Experte, aber so gut wie alle Russland- und Wirtschaftsexperten, die ich zum Thema gelesen habe, sind sehr skeptisch - nicht nur, was Trumps Entschlossenheit angeht (das sprechen Sie ja an), sondern auch die Machbarkeit und letzten Endes auch die Effizienz. 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Ich versuche es jetzt mit Instapaper, auch wenn ich nicht 100% glücklich damit bin. Aber es ist das ähnlichste, was ich gefunden habe, um Artikel und Blogs für später zu merken, zu lesen und dann abzuhaken.instapaper.comInstapaperA simple tool for saving web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad, Android, computer, or Kindle. 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Danke, das ist interessant. Es gibt definitiv viele Menschen, die sich über die fallende Qualität der Google-Ergebnisse beklagen, auch wenn es nicht Konsens zu sein scheint... www.statista.com/statistics/1..., aber auch searchengineland.com/search-engin... 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Warum nicht mal mehr 51% der früheren Funktionalität? 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Also, if apple of paradise is banana, and earth apple is cucumber, there should be a "hell apple" meaning some kind of elongated food plant? 120
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I was so shocked that I made the mistake of diving deeper. Not only did the Old English have eorþæppla (earth apple), but they used it to refer to the cucumber. Even worse, the Greek also had a word to designates both apples and fruit in general. It was "melon".etymonline.comMelon - Etymology, Origin & MeaningOriginating from late 14th-century Old French and Medieval Latin, melon means a succulent trailing plant or its sweet edible fruit, derived from Greek for "gourd-... 150
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Birds (from around Düsseldorf), because why not? 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Mark Galeotti actually argued against that in his latest podcast episode. 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I guess you've seen this, but just in case: 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025(As an aside, I wrote my thesis on search engines 15 years ago, and had to explicitly exclude large parts of the results to focus on what could be easier quantified - the actual web search. I assume that, in a few of years, organic results will largely have gone the way of the Yahoo web directory) 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I certainly agree that AI summaries are much more error-prone than earlier additions (although they had their issues as well, see e.g. www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/w...). But perhaps it's still not as huge a break with the past.nytimes.comIndia’s ‘Ugliest’ Language? Google Had an Answer (and Drew a Backlash). (Published 2021) 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025All of that is a work of AI in the broader sense (not LLMs). And also, Google offers AI summaries only for some queries, mainly those known as "informational" (as opposed to "transactional", where top spot is often Products ads, or "navigational", with web results on top the main list). 110
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Now I come to think about this, it has been an on-and-off thing for decades now. First there were just organic web results, then came image suggestions, then news results, fact cards, search suggestions. Even without LLM summaries , you can sometimes hardly see the top web result. 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025година is "hour" in Ukrainian. You might be thinking of Russian, where год does mean "year".uk.wiktionary.orgгодина — Вікісловник 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I had to go google it, and, even though it's ASL and not BSL, my life will never be the same againyoutube.comASL Music Video: "Sweet Transvestite" from The Rocky Horror Picture ShowYouTube video by Russell Harvard 1143
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Und, wenn ich schon dabei bin, auch von mir ein inhaltlicher Hinweis: Ich habe mich damit nicht im Detail auseinandergesetzt, einige sagen aber, dass der Blair-Bericht medial evtl. zu schlecht wegkommt. 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Vielen Dank für den Essay, wie immer. Ich weiß es natürlich nicht genau, aber vermutlich bedeuten die gefühlt mehr werdenden kritischen Kommentare hier nur, dass Sie mehr Menschen erreichen, und entsprechend viele etwas auszusetzen haben. Hoffentlich steigen die Likes schneller. 110
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Just found that Warmduscher has its own entry in the Finnish Wikipedia, of all places, which is somehow awesomefi.wikipedia.orgWarmduscher – Wikipedia 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025There were some nice German words during my school days (long ago :( ) such as "Warmduscher", one who takes warm showers, famously used by a talk show host to describe Jurgen Klinsmann in 1998. There was also "Turnbeutelvergesser", one who "forgets" their gym bag (thus missing out on the joys of PE) 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Had to think for a while, but now I know what that reminds me of, thou gorbellied swag-bellied pignut:codepo8.github.ioShakespeare Insult Generator 020
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I've witnessed grown-up people almost come to blows over whether it mentions candy (obviously not), or bread (obviously so, "bring us bread // black and white // just not burnt"). Turns out there are dozens of variations, mostly by region, but also by generation. 010
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Russian has the relatively straightforward "big", "index", "middle" and "little", but, when it came to the ring finger, seems to have run out of ideas and just called it "the nameless finger". 160
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025A more recent and presumably lesser known phrase you can use if some event fails to surprise you: "Никогда не было, и вот опять" - "This has never happened, and now it's happening again" 020
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025You could also say "Тоже мне бином Ньютона" - approximately "Not exactly Newton's binomial theorem", meaning something between "No shit" and "It's not rocket science" 120
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025A Russian phrase for (or as a response to) something commonly known and thus obvious is "The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea", going all the way back to a Chekhov story (which, in its turn, might have borrowed in from a grammar textbook). 130
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025"Large foreign donations to the federal government," eh? 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Sure! And in the original, it has a lot of folkloric language, *and* it rhymes. Literally, you could very roughly translate it as "If, an if, you had mushrooms growing in your mouth, it wouldn't be a mouth at all, it would be a whole garden" 010
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025And the Germans say "if grandma was a bus, she'd be able to honk" 020
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Vladimir Putin actually quoted the Russian equivalent at a press conference in 2014 when asked what happens if the ruble falls further: "If grandma had male genitalia, she'd be grandpa" (although he bungled it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uui4...youtube.comПутин: если бы у бабушки были половые органы дедушкиYouTube video by EnemyOpsBelNews+ 210
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025One of the countries importing uranium from Russia (which would make it subject to heavy tariffs and sanctions under the proposal) is the United States. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/13/e...themoscowtimes.comEnriched Uranium Fuels Russia's War Machine. But the U.S. Still Imports It - The Moscow TimesOpinion | On Feb. 24, the pro-Kremlin outlet EA Daily reported that Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom, had resumed exporting low-enriched uranium to the United States. 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Well, if it's a choice between possibly getting hit by US sanctions at some undefined point in the future if they don't like what you're doing, or definitely getting hit by US sanctions right now?.. 000
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Well, I guess it would mean at the very least making this token gesture, and also presumably erasing any trace of DEI from their website, promotional material etc. At worst, given current practices, it might expose them to sanctions at any time if the US decides they *do* LGBT propaganda after all. 210
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Not arguing the wisdom of this - but what would prevent US from enforcing this, or at least introducing punitive sanctions, both purchase-side and supply-side (think Huawei)? 100
psirotkin.bsky.social @psirotkin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I think something similar has been relatively popular on the (relatively) early internets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 010
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