From July 2025: General Martin Herem: The Next War Won’t Begin with Tanks, but with Drones and Silence balticsentinel.eu/8295986/gene... #defense #Russia #Finland #Baltics #NATO

Health effects of cash transfers: Evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Psychotropic drug use decreased by 8 %–11 %, with suggestive evidence of fewer outpatient visits due to mental health issues. #UBI #Economics

Unmet medical needs due to financial reasons, long waiting list or distance 2024. 1. Greece (21.9%) 2. Finland (12.4%) #finland #inequality #healthcare #politiikka #EU #EUstat

Unmet medical needs due to financial reasons, long waiting list or distance 2024. 1. Greece (21.9%) 2. Finland (12.4%) #finland #inequality #healthcare #politiikka #EU #EUstat

Yllättävän vähän näkee julkista keskustelua siitä, miten EU pyrkii romuttamaan kansalaisten yksityisyyttä ja viestinnän luottamuksellisuutta. Mistä perusarvoista luovumme seuraavaksi? www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha...

Fight chat control fightchatcontrol.eu #eu #vihreät #privacy #eupolitics

Fight chat control fightchatcontrol.eu #eu #vihreät #privacy #eupolitics

Selittää pitkälle suhdetta myös julkiseen velkaan: "Americans see debtors as market participants who sometimes need a "fresh start" --. Norwegians and Swedes as citizens with temporary economic problems [and] Finns as moral failures who must prove their worthiness through prolonged suffering."

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Russian MS001 operates fully autonomously. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin with 67 trillion Tensor FLOPS. It's autonomous, adaptive, and target-selective. balticsentinel.eu/8284227/ukra... #nvidia #russia #ukraine #robotics #military #war #ai

Russian MS001 operates fully autonomously. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin with 67 trillion Tensor FLOPS. It's autonomous, adaptive, and target-selective. balticsentinel.eu/8284227/ukra... #nvidia #russia #ukraine #robotics #military #war #ai

A new Finnish flavor of feline coat coloration, “salmiak,” is associated with a 95-kb deletion downstream of the KIT gene onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #finland #cats #genetics #feline #suomi #salmiak #salmiakki

Ukrainan tukemisen vaihtoehtoiskustannus? Ukrainalaisen pakolaisen kustannus EU:ssa on n.€12,000–€25,000 vuodessa (lähde: Brugel) Jos Ukraina romahtaa ja 60% väestöstä (22M) pakeenee EU:n alueelle kustannus on €260-€550 miljardia vuodessa. #EU #Ukraina #taloustiede

Harmittamaan jäi vain se, että oman tutkimusalan esimerkissä vaihtoehtoiskustannus on jonkinlainen mielipide-asia eikä todellinen kustannus. Tietenkin se on aito kustannus myös alla olevassa esimerkissä ja tuki on tukea. 2/2

Ennen minua haukuttiin persuksi, nykyisin demariksi. Muutuinko minä vai maailma? Mikä yhdistää ja mikä erottaa minua ja oikeistopopulisteja? www.libera.fi/2025/07/09/k...

Euroopan Komission oikeusvaltiokertomus 2025 #oikeusvaltio #laki #oikeus #suomi #EY #EU commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

Euroopan Komission oikeusvaltiokertomus 2025 #oikeusvaltio #laki #oikeus #suomi #EY #EU commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

Nykyisessä maailmantilanteessa EU:n on poistettava Venäjältä veto-oikeus EU:n päätöksenteossa. On joko poistettava yksimielisyyden vaatimus tai on karsittava jäseniä tai vietävä ääni oikeus EU:n periaatteita rikkovilta jäseniltä. Äärivaihtoehto on lakkauttaa EU ja perustaa se uudestaan.

🚨New paper! We know models learn distinct in-context learning strategies, but *why*? Why generalize instead of memorize to lower loss? And why is generalization transient? Our work explains this & *predicts Transformer behavior throughout training* without its weights! 🧵 1/

Merz's 'dirty work' remark is appalling (as is the apparent quiet approval by other Europeans). It's like people openly admit that this whole 'rules-based thing' is just a pretense.

Been reading about early #ColdWar #Finnish #intelligence #history and man, it’s _wild._ Like, a Social Democrat officer ran the largely privately funded military intelligence, which (among other things) spied upon both the Communists and the civilian security police (SUPO), ...

I wrote about the history of Iran’s nuclear programme: when it began, what was shut down in 2003, what weapons-related work continued thereafter & whether this was “accelerating” in recent months as Israel claims. Short answer: more evidence needed. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Can you train a performant language model using only openly licensed text? We are thrilled to announce the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of openly licensed and public domain text. We train 7B models for 1T and 2T tokens and match the performance similar models like LLaMA 1 & 2

Ketju vähemmän tunnettuista tilastoista Suomesta, vertailukohtana muut pohjoismaat.🧵 Aloitetaan verotuksen tasosta. Verotulot suhteessa BKT on Suomessa pohjoismaiden alhaisimmat. Tämä ei sisällä esim. eläkemaksuja ja muita sosiaalivakuutusmaksuja. 1/

“Adaptive maximization of social welfare” - out now in the current issue of Econometrica: www.econometricsociety.org/publications... @ecmaeditors.bsky.social

In 1995, Jeff Bezos's parents, Jackie and Mike Bezos, invested $245,573 in Amazon.com, which was a loan to help Bezos start his online bookstore. Entrepreneurship is a carnival game.

HS 1.12.1986 #nuorisopilalla

Miksi Suomen ulkomaiset sijoitukset tuottavat näin huonosti? @olli-karkkainen.bsky.social @villekaitila.bsky.social @rogerwessman.bsky.social @tervio.bsky.social @ikaukora.bsky.social @osmosoininvaara.bsky.social lähde: The foreign returns of nations: A puzzle cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Not something one could figure out from the news.

The 'Kaya Identify' (simplified here) is a decomposition of the growth in fossil CO2 emissions (black dots) into economic growth (orange), energy efficiency & structure change (green), & carbon intensity (blue). It is often interpreted as "therefore we need degrowth". No.... 1/

How do genetic and non-genetic information influence the pace of evolution? How can information become a significant evolutionary force within brains? Check this paper in Interface Focus @royalsocietypublishing.org @eplantec.bsky.social scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

Se on kiintoisaa, miten moni ilmoittaa kannattavansa oikeusvaltiota, mutta ottaa sitten esim. kantaa (jopa poliitikon asemassa) tuomioistuimen yksittäistapauksiin ja ilmoittaa ne vääriksi ei-oikeudellisin perustein 😐 Tai vaatii, että lakia pitäisikin tunneperusteisesti soveltaa eri tavalla toisiin.

What is the right amount of protein intake? It's not "bro science" of 1 gm/pound body weight per day. "You're being lied to about protein" @vox.com ($) www.vox.com/future-perfe... open-access systematic review: Maximum benefit 1.6 gm/kg/day (note kg not lb) bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/6...

Updated fossil CO2 emission estimates from @robbieandrew.bsky.social Based on the latest data, we estimate fossil CO2 emissions went up 0.9% in 2024. Listen to his presentation here (starting about 8:55): cicero.oslo.no/no/arrangeme... 1/

New video! This covers the fundamentals of quantum computing and builds up to a step-by-step walk-through of an important algorithm in the field. youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU

China's monthly electricity generation. robbieandrew.github.io/china/ #climate #energy #cleanEnergy

The economic impact of Trump’s tariffs on Europe: an initial assessment. Trump’s tariffs will be a limited hit to Europe, though some regions and industries could suffer and may need protective measures www.bruegel.org/analysis/eco... #EU #EUecon #econ #economics #tariffs

The Rapoport rules to encourage productive, critical #discourse. 1. Re-express your target position clearly, vividly, and fairly. 2. List any points of agreement. 3. Mention anything you have learnt from your target. 4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. A little thread to highlight our work on its roots with @sahilchinoy.bsky.social, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Sandra Sequeira.🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

Erittäin tärkeä kirjoitus. Suomalainen oikeusvaltio ja demokratia toimivat moitteetta hyvän sään aikana. Ne kannattaa myös turvata ja suojata hyvän sään aikana pahan päivän varalta.

I looked at this image many times as a kid, saw it at the Met, eventually met mathematician Tom Banchoff, who told stories of his encounters with Dalí & their discussions about the 4th dimension. Only today did I realize it’s Christ on the hypercube. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IiXc...

Looking at what China stands to gain from the US self-sabotage shenanigans, it’s quite impressive: if China plays it smart, they can have Russia, Europe, and their Asian neighbours where they want them. Wrote down a few short observations here:

Americans don't care about rights, liberties, democracy, or abortion. All that matters is inflation, jobs, economy and healthcare. www.economist.com/interactive/... #uspol #democracy #liberties #rights #freeSpeech #trump #law #politicalEconomy

In a cohort study of people age 65+ "Up to 32% of incident dementia over 8 years could be attributed to clinically significant audiometric hearing loss" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... C1/

Most cited papers in 21th century 1. Deep residual learning for image recognition (2016) ... 6. Random forests (2001) 7. Attention is all you need (2017) 8. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks (2017) www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AI #ML #DL #MachineLearning #compsci

Rabbi Yeshayahu Leibowitz was a scientist, was religious, & a philosopher who spoke out on politics. He was brilliant, unsparing and fiery, and understood with moral clarity what so few wanted to see. Here, he gives 'em the what for. (ht @sydnestel.bsky.social ) Next skeet, a quote.