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Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 1) 207

state-protected monopoly may maximize revenue even more, but obviously it is the opposite of capitalism.
Capitalism has 4 main features:
private ownership of production "means",
pursuing profit maximalisation,
gains as main driver to invest/reinvest, and finally
prices determined by game of supply and demand on free market.

So large aprt of US economy is not capitalist anymore - with corporates buying themselves politicians and regulations preventing market access - this is no longer a free market, thus not a capitalism. Could go as "degenerated capitalism".

Submission + - Breakthrough in AI - Bridges Transformers and Neuroscience Without Sacrificing (arxiv.org) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Ever wondered if AI could think more like a human brain while still crushing language tasks like today's top models? Enter Dragon Hatchling (BDH), a groundbreaking new large language model from researcher Jan Chorowski. Inspired by the brain's efficient, scale-free networks, BDH uses a swarm of locally connected "neuron particles" to process data, blending biological realism with Transformer-level performance. It matches GPT-2's results on translation and language benchmarks with the same parameter sizes (from 10 million to 1 billion), all while following brain-like rules like synaptic plasticity and Hebbian learning—think neurons firing and wiring together in real time. What sets it apart? Built-in interpretability: its activations are sparse and clear, making it easier to peek inside and understand how it reasons about concepts. Plus, it's GPU-friendly, biologically plausible for explaining human speech, and scales up smoothly, potentially unlocking more universal AI reasoning. A fresh take on merging machines and minds that's as practical as it is intriguing.

Comment atari 800xe, c64 ... but hands on many more (Score 1) 523

First that I had a contact with: my friend's first gen C64, somewhere in 1983 - extremely early, if you consider we were behind iron curtain (and existence od CoCom exports embargo).
Later in the computer club: ZX81, ZX Spectrum 48k, ZX Spectrum +, Acorn (? some 8-bit)
At elementary school they've got single Amstrad CPC 464
Finally after some years got my first - Atari 800 XE (looked luke 65/130XE, but had option to add memory, so basically to turn 65XE to 130XE)
And a bit later - 2nd gen C64

Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 429

> Standard combat wounded to loss ratio is 4:1. 14000 means 56000 wounded which will mean that you would not be able to get through the corridor in any hospital in the European part of Russia. We are fully aware that this is not the case.
You are assuming it was country with civilised mentality. Soviets/Russians were known for shooting own retreating troops, by KGB during WW2. Now, there was a rumour that Chechen troops were doing similar "motivation" for deserters or retreating soldiers. Russians are also not interested in retrieving corpses; they did some by we could safely assume they retrieved less than 30% bodies.

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