Lars P. Syll

Putins Krieg gegen die Ukraine .[embedded content]

The Grace of Undómiel .[embedded content] This one is for all my brothers and sisters in Ukraine, fighting oppression and risking your lives on your long walk to freedom. May God be with you. Never give in. Never give up.

The soft bigotry of low expectations There is much rumbling about the likelihood that the Supreme Court will deal a coup de grâce to racial preferences in university admissions when it takes up two cases, probably in its next term, challenging affirmative action policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … But I find myself thinking about … how we’ve allowed ourselves to all but give up on the idea that many Black and...

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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...

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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...