"But we found that Trump’s so-called “reciprocal” tariff rates weren’t based on tariffs that other countries charged on goods coming from the U.S. Instead, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative came up with the rates by dividing the size of a country’s trade imbalance with the U.S. in goods by how much America imports in goods from that nation. "

Source: https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THE...

General relativity was a completely novel idea. Einstein took a purely mathematical object (now known as the Einstein tensor), and realized that since its coveriant derivative was zero, it could be equated (apart fron a constant factor) to a conserved physical object, the energy momentum tensor (except for a constant factor). It didn't just fall out of Riemannian geometry and what was known about physics at the time.

Special relativity was the work of several scientists as well as Einstein, but it was also a completely novel idea - just not the idea of one person working alone.

I don't know why anyone disputes that people can sometimes come up with completely novel ideas out of the blue. This is how science moves forward. It's very easy to look back on a breakthrough and think it looks obvious (because you know the trick that was used), but it's important to remember that the discoverer didn't have the benefit of hindsight that you have.

Dennis McKenna, mentioned in the article, is the brother of the late Terence McKenna.

These are two opposing approaches to AI. Rule induction is somewhere in between - you use training data and it outputs (usually probabilistic) human-readable rules.

    capital(germany, berlin).
    capital(france, paris).

Someone once told me you need humongous vectors to encode nuance, but people are good at things computers are bad at, and vice-versa. I don't want nuance from computers any more than I want instant, precise floating point calculations from people.

I prefer the old school

    king(X) :- monarch(X), male(X).
    queen(X) :- monarch(X), female(X).
    queen(X) :- wife(Y, X), king(Y).

    monarch(elizabeth).
    female(elizabeth).
    wife(philip, elizabeth).
    monarch(charles).
    male(charles).
    wife(charles, camilla).

    ?- queen(camilla).
    true.

    ?- king(charles).
    true.

    ?- king(philip).
    false.

I regularly write code which relies on a working X11. I have written a virtual machine which makes X11 calls to do 2D graphics and event handling, as well as applications which compile to the virtual machine code. If X11 and now XWayland cease to be available, not only would I have to rewrite large parts of my virtual machine, but also rewrite all the 2D graphics code in applications. All so that I can stand still when the rug is being pulled from under my feet. I'm sure there are others in a similar predicament.

I may be naive about this, but as X11 just works, and has done for decades, it should require little to no maintenance, so why the need to withdraw it? I don't expect, or require, any additional functionality.