”They hope to record billions of the animals’ clicking sounds with floating hydrophones, and then to decipher the sounds’ meaning using neural networks…. Their codas could be orders of magnitude more ancient than Sanskrit.”… petri Feb 27, 2024, 5:55 PM
Funny how countries change their stance with Russia’s advancement. Do they become like CEE when Russia is at their border? ”Sending western troops to fight in Ukraine “could not be ruled out” and that Paris would drop its long-standing opposition to purchasing emergency artillery supplies for Ukraine from… petri Feb 27, 2024, 7:47 AM
Russian meddling with elections and threatening with nukes are nothing new. From 60 years ago: “The Soviet Union was mainly motivated by a desire to ensure Kekkonen's re-election in 1962. Kekkonen, who enjoyed the confidence of the Soviet leadership, was seeking re-election for the first time, petri Feb 26, 2024, 2:55 PM
Digitalisation finally enters Hollywood after roaming elsewhere for decades: ”To his mind, AI tech poses an existential risk to the entertainment industry that it can't ignore: "There’s got to be some sort of regulations in order to protect us. If not, I just don’t see petri Feb 26, 2024, 1:20 PM
”We pretend to hurt our enemies but without hurting our own interests. Everyone involved in these posturing policies knows this. Nobody cares. ..Any country can ban bankers, lawyers, accountants, company directors and others from the rest of the world who keep the wheels turning for the Kremlin. The plutocratic elite… petri Feb 26, 2024, 8:06 AM
It takes the US to do the sanction job in Finland ”Finland-based HD Parts OY has made thousands of shipments of spare parts since 2022, making it one of the largest foreign suppliers of truck parts to Russian companies.”… petri Feb 26, 2024, 5:31 AM
”This week a security deal was announced that could see Chinese police on the streets of Hungary… It has long been Chinese Communist party policy to drive a wedge between Europe and America, and in a narrow sense its investment in Hungary has paid dividends, since Orban has faithfully blocked… petri Feb 23, 2024, 11:12 AM
”Even when Europe can produce combat forces, they often lack the things needed to fight effectively and for long enough: command-and-control capabilities, such as staff officers trained to run large headquarters; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, such as drones and satellites; logistics capabilities, including airlift; and ammunition to last… petri Feb 23, 2024, 6:50 AM
