The only definitions of AGI that matters is the one that comes from the Deutsches Institut für Normung www.agidefinition.ai

With LLMs, execution is now cheap and ideas are expensive again. We are so back

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

It was fun (painful 😅) to implement VAR(p) models from scratch juanitorduz.github.io/var_numpyro/

You know it’s Friedrichshain because the Italians are in Neukölln

Today in AI and the labour market www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The good thing about the CD player is that I can hide it from the toddler, unlike the turntable below. Snaffled a live Talk Talk record, new Swans, old grinderman and some Steely Dan today.

We are so back

It’s a real shame that writers are too cowardly to touch fatherhood. I’d buy the shit out of those books.

Long weekend cycling in the alps ✅ Work tasks ✅ Break from family responsibilities ✅ Evening ICE from Berlin to Munich ✅ Beer ✅ Sun seeking ✅ Window seat ✅ Ready to tune out and listen to some shoegaze ✅ I open my AirPods case and the pods are at home

The answer is always, especially when you simply need to build, TWFE FTW

Friends, it pleases me to report that we, the CD loving public, are so so back

Pleased to report that the kid now rides the whole way to and from Kita

After 18 years I'm finally back in an random effects versus fixed effects discussion 😎

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Most books I have read over the years are German novels and biographies from the 1920s and 1930s. To at least come closer, even if you can never really understand it. Here is my top 5. 🧵

Recommend this one. Great characters and amusing impressions of British village life. Also dark, weird, emotional.

Best ROI investment is the year pass to the zoo.

Lessgo

open sourced map of baby changing tables in Berlin fixmydiaper.com

New from @lpachter.bsky.social, lots to think about liorpachter.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/e...

Today my kid was coughing a little on the best bus in Berlin (M41). A lady on the bus gave me a tip about sesame oil. Turns out the tip probably doesn’t stack up.

Ausgezeichnet

Spectacular

Jackpot

I'm struggling to find good novels with father-son relationships as the core. There is The Road. Revealing that we have to go full post apocalyptic as a backdrop for such a relationship. Grief is a thing with Feathers is partly there, East of Eden has good relationships too. Anything else?

Bohemia

Democracy is slow, but the earth is patient.

best thing about social media is finding friends complaining about kids/parents then at a party laying the "parenting is actually a divine gift" bullshit just thick enough to watch them desperately want to escape but not quite thick enough that they actually do​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

The gradual CD migration continues

Happy Bartolo Colon Home Run Day to all who observe

So it went viral two weeks after the us government started to cut USAID. Not the most useful influence campaign. www.kff.org/u-s-foreign-...

Brandenburg is so back www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Ok friends I’ve cracked the code. When going to the zoo dress like a zoo keeper. All the animals come over and say hi.

Great, something else for the Einbürgerungstest

"A society in which every child shall grow up in pleasant homes and attractive surroundings and with good educational opportunities; in which every adult shall be provided for in sickness and adversity; and in which the pensioner can take untroubled ease." Development economist Arthur Lewis.

Be like the bundesamt für verfassungsschutz

AFL commentary seems to be just a bunch of people inventing their own rules. So I’ll leave this here. play.afl/sites/defaul...

Thanks to the good people of Dickson for joining in

No sausages at the #auspol voting booth my sister and partner voted at, but still filled with optimism for the country due to watching some of the 1500 kids (out of an overall population of 80k) play ⚽️

In the 1960s and '70s, The Worst People in the World (TM) didn't want to vaccinate Africans (etc) because they said it would lead to overpopulation. Then we did a bunch of research, and it turns out that reducing child mortality actually reduces population growth. 1/

Happy AfD are proven fascists day to all that celebrate

Junior, mid, senior, staff, principal

Degree of trust in a society measured by the amount of free hot dog condiments you get in ikea

The wasted space in Melbourne is criminal. Carlton, Collingwood, Fitzroy, South Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Albert Park. Single story houses, ten meter wide traffic islands the length of the street. Two lanes when one suffices. My goodness.

This is insanely complicated. Did they not have better things to do like hunt chocolate eggs? Why not simply the Sunday after/of Passover? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of...