Lars P. Syll

Machine learning cross-validation (student stuff) .[embedded content]

Brave Russian TV reporter .[embedded content] Courage is not anything very common, and the value we put on it is a witness to its rarity. Courage is a capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not to step back, but stand up for one’s rights not to be humiliated or abused in any ways by the rich and powerful. Courage is to do the right thing in spite of danger and fear. To keep on even if opportunities to turn back are given....

.[embedded content] Quel chef d’oeuvre! Cette tellement triste, belle et émouvante chanson, touche le plus profond de mon âme.

The limits to growth .[embedded content] In the postwar period, it has become increasingly clear that economic growth has not only brought greater prosperity. The other side of growth, in the form of pollution, contamination, wastage of resources, and climate change, has emerged as perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. Against the mainstream theory’s view on the economy as a balanced and harmonious system, where growth and the environment go hand in...

That’s the right spirit! .[embedded content]

Time for a cut-off from Russian energy imports If the German government were to stop Russian energy imports, the German economy would be able to adapt to the new situation. This is shown in a recent study by the research team led by economists Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick and Prof. Dr. Moritz Kuhn … The researchers analyzed the potential economic impact of a cut-off from Russian energy imports. The result: The consequences would be substantial, but...

Förnuft och frihet — samhällsbyggets hörnstenar Sommar i P1 är en ärevördig tradition i svensk radio. Redan som barn brukade yours truly tillbringa långa sommardagar med att ligga på Ribban i Malmö eller vid Luhrsjön i Hästveda och lyssna med medhavd transistorradio. Tyvärr har programmet med åren genomgått samma utveckling som public service i stort — bra har blivit dåligt, dåligt har blivit sämre, och sämre har blivit ren skit. Visst glimmar det till...

The invasion of Ukraine is political suicide for Putin .[embedded content]

Sahra Wagenknecht — Sherlock Holmes of the year .[embedded content] The accuracy of the predictions that self-proclaimed ‘experts’ make certainly seem to have an inverse relationship to their self-confidence. Being cocky and wrong is a lethal combination. “Russland, das ist ja relativ deutlich, hat faktisch kein Interesse, in die Ukraine einzumarschieren. Natürlich nicht.” Someone’s brain is obviously on vaccation here …

Krieg in der Ukraine .[embedded content]