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Real Counter-terrorism is going where the TERRORISTS train and NOT just where they are launched to

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Can the market stomach a $4 trillion serving?

Three giga-IPOs are headed for Wall Street in quick succession. The machinery of passive investing will be compelled to buy. The question is whether the plumbing can take the pressure — and what happens when it cannot. The scene on Wall Street that Wednesday morning in mid-June 2026 is one of controlled frenzy. At precisely [ ]

From Predictions to Causal Insights: My Pilot Study on SplitUP for Unpaired Multi-Omics Data — Bug Fixes, Docker, and Why It Matters

A quick story of rapid follow-up research, fixing a subtle bug, packaging everything reproducibly, and how this estimator could help turn machine learning predictions into trustworthy causal relationships in genomics and beyond. Posted: January 24, 2026 Two days ago (Jan 21, 2026), Schur et al. uploaded a beautiful theoretical paper to arXiv: “Many Experiments, Few [ ]

The Amazing Journey of Portátil

The Amazing Journey of Portátil A Spanish Etymology Adventure From ancient Proto-Indo-European roots to the laptop in your bag — discover the incredible 2,700-year story of how one Spanish word evolved through time, culture, and technology! 🌟 The Word s Journey in One Line PIE *per-² → Latin *portāre* → *portābilis* → Medieval Latin *portātilis* [ ]

Dynasties, Poverty, and Power Concentration in the Philippines (2004–2016): A Nuanced Assessment of Economic Inequality

1. Executive summary This report synthesizes the Kosmos Data Analysis on political dynasties and poverty in Philippine provinces (2004–2016) and your detailed notes. It focuses on: Core conclusions 2. Data and variables 2.1 Unit of analysis and time frame 2.2 Key variables 2.3 Discretionary analytical decisions The analysis made several explicit choices that shape the [ ]

Jordan Peterson’s 42 Rules in Life

Posting this because I saw some posts saying they took down Jordan Peterson s original post in Quora. The post was originally an answer to the question: What are the most valuable things everyone should know? There s also a website dedicated to it. Tell the truth.Do not do things that you hate.Act so that you can [ ]

Music Genres 1/5107 or 5044 – Central Asian Folk

If you got roasted by the How Bad was your Spotify AI (try it here: https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/ ), you ve probably asked yourself how you can disover other music genres so that you can broaden your music horizon. Well I found out about the Every Noise about a few weeka ago and it has 5,068 music genres [ ]

Using Polly with Lambda

Tried using Polly with Lambda and here s the code: import json import boto3 def lambda_handler(event, context): # TODO implement polly_client = boto3.Session(region_name= us-east-1 ).client( polly ) # aws_access_key_id=, # aws_secret_access_key=, # region_name= us-west-2 ).client( polly ) response = polly_client.synthesize_speech(VoiceId= Joanna , OutputFormat= mp3 , Text = This is a sample text…

Happy New Year 2018!

Time to start posting again it s 2018! Been reading up on a few things so here s a list: How Lightning Network works Demystifying Hashgraphs (it s permissioned btw) Fundamental Challeges to Public Blockchains by Preethi Kasireddy Hugo Nguyen on Charlie Lee divesting his LTC Naval Ravikant on how the blockchain will replace existing networks with [ ]

The first 11 days of April 2016 so far

View this post on Instagram Register Now at http://bilangpilipinohackathon.eventbrite.com #BilangPilipino #HACKSYON #CodeMore #HackMore #LiveMore A post shared by Paul 'The Pageman' Pajo (@paulpajo) on Apr 11, 2016 at 2:34am PDT It s the season of many hackathons again and last month I was a judge at the IoT (Internet of Things) hackathon. This weekend there will [ ]

Back from Bali

I was wondering where everyone was going to go for their Holy Week and for some reason, most of my friends whom I polled just said they would stay home. It seems everyone was either trying to enjoy the Holy Week break in the Philippines where all traffic just disappears or everyone was reserving their [ ]