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Halim Gurgenci

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Retired from teaching engineering at the University of Queensland in 2020. Check my Substack page too.Sometimes boring but always honest and true.

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🚀 The Not-So-Hard Problem of Imitation What if a digital avatar could represent you—your thoughts, behaviors, even personality—for future generations? In my latest post, I explore: • How close we are to creating avatars indistinguishable from the real “you.” • The mystery of

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What is happening in Syria surprised everyone including the Turkish government. Judging by the timing of Bahceli's "Kurdish Initiative" (which was announced on 22 October), Turkish government would expect the Syrian offensive to happen in 2025 spring. Turkey is still the only

What is happening in Syria surprised everyone including the Turkish government.  Judging by the timing of Bahceli's "Kurdish Initiative" (which was announced on 22 October), Turkish government would expect the Syrian offensive to happen in 2025 spring.  Turkey is still the only
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Ben yazımı bitirene kadar Esat rejimi bitti. Züccaciye dükkanlarında bazan şöyle levhalar görürsünüz, ‘Kırarsan mal senindir’ gibi. Suriye’yi Türkiye kırmadı ama onarma görevi Türkiye’ye kaldı gibi. Erdoğan ve Fidan’ı zahmetli günler bekliyor. Suriye'de olan biten ve

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In the last post of 2024, there is a summary of all the interesting eents and thoughts of the past year through references to my posts through the year, including links to all book reviews. This is some of the stuff I covered in 2024: * Your life expectancy, your healthy life

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İki gün önceki ingilizce gönderimin Türkçesi: Yıl boyunca yaptığım yazılara yapılan atıflar ve tüm kitap incelemelerine bağlantılar da dahil olmak üzere, geçen yılın tüm ilginç olaylarının ve düşüncelerinin bir özeti. 2024'te ele aldığım şeylerden bazıları şunlar: * Yaşam

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You are never too old to start learning new things, even if the learning is expected to take time. You may feel that you do not have time anymore to take on long-term projects. You would be wrong. You have all the time in the world — (until you don’t and it does not matter

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Yeni şeyler öğrenmeye başlamak için asla çok yaşlı değilsiniz. Öğrenmek zaman alır, uzun vadeli projeler üstlenmek için artık zaman yok derseniz yanılırsınız. Dünyadaki tüm zaman sizin — (ta ki vakit bitene kadar ve ondan sonra da önemi yok zaten). Bu yazıda, ayrıca, kömür

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A friend who read my last post said I should not bother learning Maths to work with LLMs. He learned on YouTube that AGI was coming soon. In this post, I try to answer if AGI is indeed coming, and if not, what is coming in 2025. You will also find short takes on * The new

A friend who read my last post said I should not bother learning Maths to work with LLMs.  He learned on YouTube that AGI was coming soon.  In this post, I try to answer if AGI is indeed coming, and if not, what is coming in 2025.

You will also find short takes on

* The new
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The title is so vicious I first thought it was a joke. I have read the whole article to make sure that I was not misled by a hyperbolic title. This is a very biased article. A number of new employees are named and they are all assumed to be all “lackeys” because either they

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wired.com/story/elon-mus… This is not only bad but malicious. Vittoria Elliott identifies six young engineers with their names. They were recently hired and are "one part of the broader project of Musk allies assuming key government positions". Ms Elliott's article title is "The

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We are not winning the war against cancer. I explore the current discourse about a potentially more effective approach. A technique formulated before the Second World War in Nazi Germany but summarily forgotten afterwards is becoming fashionable again. Can we cure cancer

We are not winning the war against cancer.   I explore the current discourse  about a potentially more effective approach.  A technique formulated before the Second World War in Nazi Germany but summarily forgotten afterwards is becoming fashionable again. Can we cure cancer
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Hafta başında ingilizce olarak çıkan postanın Türkçesi. Aslında ikinci ve yeniden yazılması gibi görebilirsiniz. Her metin için olduğu gibi, yeniden yazılan orijinalden daha iyi oluyor. İngilizcesini okumuşsanız bile, eğer Türkçe de biliyorsanız, bu ikinci baskıyı okumanızı

Hafta başında ingilizce olarak çıkan postanın Türkçesi.  Aslında ikinci ve yeniden yazılması gibi görebilirsiniz.  Her metin için olduğu gibi, yeniden yazılan orijinalden daha iyi oluyor.  İngilizcesini okumuşsanız bile, eğer Türkçe de biliyorsanız, bu ikinci baskıyı okumanızı
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wired.com/story/doge-gut… Was The Wired a recipient of the US Aid budget (like Politico and Reuters)? Otherwise, difficult to understand the rationale behind the increasingly strident commentary from the Wired about the government reforms.

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Last post, I started on two different explanations for cancer, metabolic and somatic. I will go back to that story but this week I want to make a few comments on the Trump proposal for Gaza and why I think it is a step in the right direction yet unworkable in the new ROGUE age

Last post, I started on two different explanations for cancer, metabolic and somatic. I will go back to that story but this week I want to make a few comments on the Trump proposal for Gaza and why I think it is a step in the right direction yet unworkable in the new ROGUE age
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Last week, Brisbane held its breath as Tropical Cyclone (T C) Alfred approached. Every natural disaster causes you to reflect on the ephemerality of our lives and the fragility of the way we live them. In addition to reflections on life caused by the visit from T C Alfred, you

Last week, Brisbane held its breath as Tropical Cyclone (T C) Alfred approached. Every natural disaster causes you to reflect on the ephemerality of our lives and the fragility of the way we live them.

In addition to reflections on life caused by the visit from T C Alfred, you
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Tarih tekrar eder ama hangi tarih? İmamoğlu göz altına alındı. Yakın tarihimizde buna benzer ama sonuçları birbirine zıt iki emsal var. Bakalım tekerrür eden tarih hangisi olacak: halimgur.substack.com/i/159314276/ta…

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Diary Notes, by Halim Gurgenci open.substack.com/pub/halimgur/p… Are we more protective of our children today compared to what we experienced as children ourselves?

Diary Notes, by <a href="/halimgur/">Halim Gurgenci</a> open.substack.com/pub/halimgur/p… 

Are we more protective of our children today compared to what we experienced as children ourselves?
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Bir tanıdığınız liseyi bitiriyorsa, bu yazının onların kariyer seçimi yapmalarına yardımcı olabileceğini umut ediyorum. Özetle, YaGeZe’ye giden yol belirsizliğini koruyor olsa da, mevcut YaZe araçları iş dünyasını şimdiden dönüştürmeye başladı bile. Çoğu meslek grubunda,