After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. and EU sanctions aimed to collapse the Russian economy. The sanctions have failed primarily because of China's vast, increasingly advanced manufacturing base. Read the new Bismarck Analysis Brief here: brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/sanctions-on… 1/n

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BBC (1986) The Birth of Calculus youtube.com/watch?v=ObPg3k…

This would be an interesting milestone: when batteries outstrip imports.

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New, and worthy of study, in machine learning: Kolmogorov Arnold Networks. x.com/search?q=Kolmo…

Can Nvidia's moat be breached? youtube.com/watch?v=48AdJg…

Seeking to better understand SOFR. What can be made of the Oct 1st spike? (ycharts.com/indicators/sofr).

Here is a short video of one of the 1st Klamath River salmon to make it to the tributaries above the former Iron Gate Dam. The clip was recorded last Friday by Yurok Fisheries Dept Geologist Kayah Ray, who is part of a team surveying salmon in the newly undammed river reach.

This video illustrates the "levante" phenomenon on the Rock of Gibraltar. The "levante" is an east wind carrying moisture from the Mediterranean. When it encounters the rock's steep terrain, it rises, cools, and condenses, creating clouds, mist, and fog. 📹 Met Office

IEA Realtime Electricity Tracker (prev month):

For all the Trump blowout narrative, there are often fine margins between triumphs and catastrophes. Harris only needed around 240k votes across the "blue wall" to get to 270 EVs. (30k in Wisconsin, 80k in Wisconsin, 130k in Pennsylvania)

Harbin from 1898 to 1949 is one of the most interesting places in history! The City of Ice was for 50 years a cosmopolitan battleground between White & Red 🇷🇺, 🇯🇵 Imperialists and 🇨🇳 Communists A🧵on Asia's frozen Wild Wild East and powder keg

Russia’s war economy is a house of cards ft.com/content/61adae… via Financial Times

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Today's reminder of just how much easier it is to program with an LLM chatbot: chatgpt.com/share/67bf84f1…

Since lithography is hot right now, listen to our talk with the man who pioneered 193 nm Deep UV and liquid-immersion Deep UV! Ton of alpha here: - While ~90% of 1980s U.S. funding chased proximity X-ray, Lincoln Labs got a small side-grant to try doing lithography with new and