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    <title>Outsider Gaming 20250402 - Wall Street Raider, the Legendary Tycoon Game, Is Back: Ben Ward Talks the Epic 2025 Remaster in Exclusive Interview</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-03T11:23:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wall Street Raider, a hyper-realistic financial simulation developed by Michael Jenkins since the 1980s, is receiving a complete 2025 remaster led by developer Ben Ward.

Ward convinced a skeptical Jenkins to share the source code after major teams (including developers for JP Morgan and Disney) had previously failed to modernize the "grotesquely complex" legacy code.

Technical Approach: Rather than rewriting the game, Ward built a modern C++ user interface that wraps around and communicates with the original PowerBasic simulation engine via DLLs, preserving 100% of the game's mechanics.

A "Passing of the Torch": Jenkins, now in his 80s, supports the project as a legacy move, notably assisting by manually renaming thousands of variables in the original code to help Ward understand the system.

UI Overhaul: The remaster focuses on accessibility, replacing the archaic, click-heavy interface with a streamlined, "Bloomberg-esque" layout featuring a command console and instant data access.

Educational Value: The game is renowned for its realism, with hedge fund managers and professors utilizing it to teach complex concepts like mergers, acquisitions, options, and short selling.

Future Features: Plans for the game include full modding support via Lua and a backend web API that would allow users to create AI trading bots for research purposes.]]></description>
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    <title>NYTimes 20251216 - Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-28T12:36:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bear Stearns era — Quickly rose to limited partner, abused expense accounts, steered hot IPO allocations to girlfriends, faced SEC questions and an internal probe; resigned in 1981 after a fine/suspension.

Early scams & betrayals — After Bear Stearns, engaged in schemes (notably a $450k crude-oil swindle against Michael Stroll) and apparent misappropriations that enriched him and seeded later deals.

“Bounty hunter” pose — Marketed himself as a tracker of hidden assets; claimed success recovering securities from a Cayman bank in 1984 (with an associate), which materially boosted his standing and wealth.

Social climbing as strategy — Recruited and used young women and girlfriends (e.g., Paula Heil, Patricia Schmidt, Eva Andersson, later Ghislaine Maxwell) to gain access, influence and leverage.

Ties to criminal schemes — Close involvement with Steven Hoffenberg’s Towers Financial (a Ponzi that stole ~ $500M); Epstein’s exact role disputed but he profited and benefited socially.

Les Wexner turning point — Late 1980s–1990s: Wexner became Epstein’s major client and gave him extraordinary control (power of attorney). Wexner’s money appears central to Epstein’s leap into plutocracy.

Institutional access & credibility — Used Wexner/Rockefeller/Harvard connections and donations (and a foundation) to buy legitimacy: board memberships, invitations, and ties to elites (politicians, bankers, academics).

Legal/financial evasions — Repeatedly benefited from technical legal defenses, friendly letters of reference, and bank services (e.g., JPMorgan) that facilitated both wealth accumulation and later criminal activity.

Use of women as currency & enabler of abuse — The article traces how Epstein’s social/sexual networks helped him ascend and later enabled his large-scale sex-trafficking and abuse operation (Maxwell a central accomplice).

Geographic/structural advantages — Bought Little St. James and used lax U.S. Virgin Islands regulations/tax incentives to shelter business and activity; sought and received local tax breaks in 1999.

Central thesis / takeaway — Epstein’s fortune grew less from genius or espionage than from a long-running mix of manipulation, fraud, exploitation of elite networks, and willingness to operate on the edge of criminality.

[ChatGPT 5.2 summary]]]></description>
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    <title>xAI 20250714 - Announcing Grok for Government | xAI</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-19T14:45:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[xAI announced "Grok for Government" on July 14, 2025, a suite of AI products for United States Government customers.

The initiative will provide federal, state, local, and national security customers with xAI's AI tools, including their most advanced model, Grok 4.

The offerings include tools like Deep Search and Tool Use, along with custom AI-powered applications for sectors such as healthcare, science, and national security.

xAI has secured a new contract with the US Department of Defense with a ceiling of $200 million.

xAI's products are available for purchase through the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule, making them accessible to all federal government departments, agencies, and offices.

The announcement came shortly after xAI apologized for its chatbot, Grok, generating offensive and antisemitic content.

The Pentagon has also awarded contracts of up to $200 million each to Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to foster competition and ensure access to the best AI solutions.]]></description>
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    <title>Medium 20221221 - Updates from Palantir Edge AI in Space | by Palantir | Palantir Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-14T12:23:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    As of November 2022, Palantir successfully demonstrated the ability for customers to task the NewSat-27 satellite, resulting in the capture of over 100 images.

    During a test on October 30, 2022, over Tartus, Syria, the system processed 44 raw images into six standard RGB images directly on the satellite.

    The onboard Palantir Omni AI model produced 210 building detections from the images captured over Syria.

    The entire end-to-end processing of all 44 frames during the live test was completed within seven minutes, which was well within the targeted thresholds.

    When a bug was discovered in the pre-processing algorithm, a software patch was uplinked to the satellite, and the onboard software was updated to fix the issue in seven minutes.

    The system is being upgraded to run newer models that can identify more specialized objects, such as ships, with high confidence.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Palantir edge_AI edge_computing Satellogic MetaConstellation Palantir_Omni</dc:subject>
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    <title>Medium 20220402 - Edge AI in Space | Palantir and Satellogic | Palantir Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-14T12:12:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    On April 1, 2022, Palantir and Satellogic launched their first Edge AI-enabled satellite into space aboard the SpaceX Transporter 4 mission

    This launch was the result of a six-month joint project to run Palantir's Edge AI platform on Satellogic's "NewSat" satellite.

    The launch expanded Satellogic's satellite fleet to 22. The company aimed to have 34 satellites by the first quarter of 2023 and has a goal of over 200 by 2025, which would provide the capacity to remap the entire Earth daily

    The system uses NVIDIA's Jetson TX-2i platform for onboard computing. Due to power constraints, the Edge AI system has only minutes of runtime per session.

    The platform processes raw 4-band satellite imagery onboard to create 3-channel RGB images, which allows for the use of standard AI models.

    The system can switch between AI models from multiple vendors, including Palantir, Xailient, MindFoundry, and Pilot.ai, to detect objects like ships, vehicles, and buildings.

    A custom upgrade framework was developed to overcome the limited uplink bandwidth (a few MBs per pass) and update AI models while the satellite is in orbit.

Palantir Omni - a multi-class vision model for identifying land, sea, air vehicles, and buildings. Estimated model size: 20-50M parameters (vs. 25M for ResNet-50)]]></description>
<dc:subject>Palantir MetaConstellation Xalient Satellogic edge_AI edge_computing Palantir_Omni</dc:subject>
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    <title>Wes O'Donnel 20250428 - Could Ukraine Ever Get the Ninja Bomb? A Realistic Look</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-05T11:02:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hellfire R9X "Ninja Bomb"

This weapon is a highly modified variant of the AGM-114 Hellfire missile, designed for surgical strikes with minimal collateral damage.

    Design and Function: Instead of a traditional high-explosive warhead, it features six large steel blades that deploy just before impact. It relies on kinetic energy—the sheer force and velocity of the missile—to shred a specific target. This design allows it to eliminate an individual, even in a moving car or a specific room, without causing a large blast or destroying surrounding structures. It is nicknamed the "Flying Ginsu" and "Ninja Bomb."

    Origins and Purpose: Developed under the Obama administration in the late 2000s, the R9X was created to reduce civilian casualties during counterterrorism operations. Its development was a direct response to criticism of drone strikes that caused unintended deaths.

    Operational Use: The United States does not officially confirm its use, but the R9X's signature has been identified in strikes against high-value targets. Notable examples include the elimination of al-Qaeda leaders Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul (2022) and Abu Khayr al-Masri in Syria (2017), where vehicles and buildings showed precise-cut damage instead of blast craters. It is considered a tool for targeted assassination, primarily used by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

Potential for Ukrainian Acquisition

The prospect of Ukraine receiving the R9X is considered technically possible but politically improbable for several reasons.

    Classification and Sensitivity: The R9X is a top-secret weapon. Transferring it to another nation risks exposing its technology and operational methods. Its use as an assassination asset makes it politically sensitive, and the U.S. maintains tight control to avoid misuse or capture, which could damage American credibility.

    Alternative Munitions: Ukraine already possesses other Western-supplied precision weapons like JDAMs and GMLRS rockets, which are effective for its current battlefield needs against military formations and command posts without the political complications associated with the R9X.]]></description>
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    <title>MFA 20250701 - MOD concludes evaluation of advanced systems performance in Operation Rising Lion Ministry of Foreign Affairs</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-04T17:44:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.gov.il/en/pages/mod-concludes-evaluation-of-advanced-systems-performance-in-operation-rising-lion-1-jul-2025</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Israeli Ministry of Defense has concluded its evaluation of advanced weapon systems' performance during Operation Rising Lion, highlighting the decisive role of Israeli-developed technology. The assessment, led by the Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D), emphasized the achievement of tactical surprise and air superiority over Iran.

Key outcomes of the operation include the successful performance of Israel's multi-layered air and missile defense system. Enhanced versions of the Arrow system intercepted 86% of ballistic missiles launched from Iran, preventing over $15 billion in potential damage. Upgrades to the Iron Dome and David's Sling systems, combined with a successful test against drone swarms, resulted in a 99% interception rate of Iranian drones.

The UAV Array demonstrated unprecedented reach, with thousands of flight hours and over 500 strikes inside Iran. These missions constituted 60% of the Air Force's total flight hours and half of all IDF strike operations, significantly reducing risks to pilots.

In the realm of intelligence, comprehensive space-based surveillance covered tens of millions of square kilometers of Iranian territory, yielding over 12,000 satellite images. This intelligence was critical in identifying thousands of targets and supporting strike missions.

Advanced weaponry developed by the DDR&D and Israeli defense industries were instrumental in preemptive strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and ballistic missile infrastructure. These systems enabled precise, long-range engagements, even in hostile electronic warfare environments. The DDR&D's research and development efforts in air defense, UAVs, space, armaments, and AI were deemed critical to the operation's success.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Israel Iran Swords_of_Iron Iron_Dome Davids_Sling</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-iran-conflict-david-sling-arrow-iron-dome-anti-missile-attack-explainer-2610014-2024-10-02">
    <title>'David's Sling', 'Arrow' anti-missile systems: How Israel countered Iran's attack - India Today</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-04T17:23:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/israel-iran-conflict-david-sling-arrow-iron-dome-anti-missile-attack-explainer-2610014-2024-10-02</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Israel's national security strategy relies heavily on its intricate, multi-layered missile defense system. This sophisticated network is not a single entity but a combination of interconnected systems designed to intercept a wide array of aerial threats at varying altitudes and ranges. Its effectiveness was showcased during the recent missile exchange with Iran, where it, with assistance from the US and UK, successfully neutralized a significant attack. The system has also been crucial in mitigating attacks from Hamas.

The defense network is comprised of three primary tiers:

    The Iron Dome: As the most well-known component, the Iron Dome is tasked with intercepting short-range rockets and artillery shells. While highly effective, it was initially challenged during the massive surprise attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023, highlighting the difficulties of defending against a saturation attack.

    David's Sling: This system forms the middle layer of defense, designed to neutralize medium to long-range ballistic missiles. It utilizes advanced "hit-to-kill" technology, ensuring the destruction of incoming threats through direct impact.

    The Arrow System: At the apex of the defense network are the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems. These are designed to intercept long-range and even intercontinental ballistic missiles, with the Arrow 3 capable of engaging targets in the upper atmosphere and space.

The evolving nature of missile warfare is a key consideration, as the development of new technologies, such as supersonic missiles, will require continuous upgrades and adaptations to existing defense systems. A brief comparison with India's defense needs highlights the unique challenges of protecting a much larger geographical area. In essence, Israel's security is intrinsically linked to its technologically advanced and layered missile defense system, which must constantly evolve to counter emerging threats.]]></description>
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    <title>TWZ 2027-07-01 - Railgun Installed On Japanese Warship Seen In New Photos</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-02T10:03:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.twz.com/sea/railgun-installed-on-japanese-warship-seen-in-new-photos</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A prototype electromagnetic railgun has been installed on the Japanese warship JS Asuka. The vessel was photographed with the weapon in port at Yokosuka, Japan, on June 30, 2025.

The sea-based testing window for the railgun is reportedly scheduled between June 9 and July 25, 2025.

Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) is leading the project. In past ground-based tests, ATLA's railgun has fired rounds at approximately Mach 6.5 (4,988 miles per hour).

Previous development goals for the weapon included achieving a muzzle velocity of at least Mach 5.8 (4,473 mph) and a barrel life of 120 rounds.

The JS Asuka, a 6,200-ton-displacement ship, serves as a dedicated testbed for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The railgun was first seen mounted on its stern flight deck in April 2025.

The U.S. Navy, which ended its own railgun program in the early 2020s, has reportedly met with Japanese officials to discuss leveraging past American research.

In 2024, Japan also entered into a cooperative agreement with France and Germany to collaborate on future railgun technology.

Japan has plans to potentially integrate a railgun system onto its future 13DDX-class destroyers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Japan railgun JS_Asuka</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://ctc.westpoint.edu/feature-commentary-an-assessment-of-operation-rough-rider/">
    <title>CTC 2025-06 - An Assessment of Operation Rough Rider - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-01T21:11:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ctc.westpoint.edu/feature-commentary-an-assessment-of-operation-rough-rider/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Background: In response to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea starting in November 2023, the United States launched Operation Rough Rider, an air campaign that ran from mid-March to early May 2025.

    Scale of Operation: The U.S. conducted over 1,100 airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen over a period of 52 days.

    Cost Disparity: The operation highlighted a significant cost imbalance, with the U.S. often using missiles costing between $1 million and $2 million each to intercept Houthi drones and missiles that cost an estimated $10,000 to $20,000.

    Outcome of the Operation: The campaign concluded after an agreement where the Houthis pledged to cease attacks on U.S. military and flagged vessels. However, a U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that while the airstrikes caused "some degradation" to Houthi capabilities, the group could easily "reconstitute, regroup, and rebound."

    Strategic Assessment: The article posits that the Houthis cannot be defeated by air power alone and that a successful campaign would necessitate a ground component, similar to the strategy employed against the Islamic State.

    Future Options: The commentary outlines three potential future U.S. strategies: a "defend only" approach, limited strikes on specific targets, or extensive strikes targeting all known Houthi sites and leadership.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Houthis Operation_Rough_Rider Yemen</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-missile-defense-under-strain-213274">
    <title>National Interest 20241017 - U.S. Missile Defense Is Under Strain - The National Interest</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-29T14:30:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-missile-defense-under-strain-213274</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    U.S. THAAD Deployment to Israel: On October 13, the U.S. announced the deployment of one Theater High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) battery to Israel. The deployment includes six launchers and a total of 48 interceptors. This move highlights strains in both nations’ missile defense capabilities.

    Israel's Missile Defense Performance: Israel’s multi-layered system successfully intercepted nearly all of the 320 drones and missiles from Iran's April 13 attack. However, during a subsequent October 1 strike of around 180 ballistic missiles, over 30 landed at Nevatim Air Base, suggesting a potential scarcity of Israeli interceptors.

    U.S. Interceptor Inventory Strain: The U.S. faces its own shortages. The local U.S. Sixth Fleet’s inventory of SM-3 interceptors was nearly depleted defending Israel during the October 1 attack. The U.S. has a limited total supply of these key systems:

        SM-3 Interceptors: Approximately 400 remain from over 500 produced, with an annual production rate of only 12.

        THAAD Interceptors: Just under 800 are on hand.

    The Strategic Dilemma: Iran possesses over 3,000 ballistic missiles, the largest inventory in the Middle East. A full-scale conflict could quickly exhaust U.S. interceptors. This forces a difficult choice for the U.S.: depleting its finite missile defense assets to protect Israel versus preserving them to deter critical threats from China in Asia and Russia in Europe.]]></description>
<dc:subject>THAAD Israel missile_defense SM-3 US_Sixt_Fleet</dc:subject>
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    <title>NYT 20241014 - U.S. Sends the THAAD Missile Defense System to Israel: What to Know - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-29T14:15:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://archive.ph/jlv2C</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[U.S. THAAD Deployment to Israel: The US is sending one THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery to Israel, announced by the Pentagon on Sunday

Approximately 100 American troops will accompany the system to operate it, placing US service members closer to the Middle East conflict

THAAD System Capabilities

Mobile surface-to-air interceptor designed to shoot down ballistic missiles at short, medium, and intermediate ranges
Can strike targets both within Earth's atmosphere and above it, with a range of about 125 miles
Uses kinetic impact (no warhead) to destroy targets through force of collision
Features five components: interceptor missiles, launchers, radar, command-and-control platform, and support equipment

Global THAAD Distribution

Only 9 active THAAD batteries exist worldwide (manufactured by Lockheed Martin)
7 batteries assigned to US Army, deployed in locations including Guam and South Korea
2 batteries currently fielded in the United Arab Emirates

Strategic Purpose

Adds another defense layer against Iranian and allied attacks, particularly ballistic missiles from Iran (500+ miles away) and Yemen
Can intercept shorter-range missiles from Hezbollah in Lebanon
Experts note Iranian strategy involves large missile volleys to overwhelm Israeli defenses
THAAD's advanced radar can detect incoming missiles from greater distances
Particularly useful for intercepting debris from downed missiles before ground impact

Comparison with Israeli Systems

David's Sling: Stationary, 185-mile range, hit-to-kill technology (Raytheon/Rafael joint production)
Arrow 2: 30-mile altitude, 60-mile range, fragmentation warhead (Israel Aerospace Industries/Boeing)
Arrow 3: Beyond-atmosphere capability, 1,500-mile range, used against October 1 Iranian strikes
Iron Dome: Short-range interceptors for rockets, most frequently used system (Rafael production)]]></description>
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    <title>National Interest 20240213 - Why Is the U.S. Navy Running Out of Tomahawk Cruise Missiles? | American Enterprise Institute - AEI</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-29T14:10:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/why-is-the-u-s-navy-running-out-of-tomahawk-cruise-missiles/#:~:text=With%20a%20minimum%20sustainment%20rate%20of%20ninety,much%20additional%20production%20capacity%20this%20will%20create.</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Core Issue: The U.S. military is experiencing "shrinkflation," where inadequate budgets cause it to expend munitions faster than they can be replaced, critically depleting stockpiles needed for global readiness.

    Red Sea Operations: Since strikes against Houthi rebels began on January 11, the U.S. Navy has heavily used Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs).

        On the first day of strikes in Yemen, over 80 Tomahawks were fired.

        This one-day expenditure is unsustainable; the entire 2023 purchase of 55 Tomahawks equaled only 68% of the munitions fired on that single day.

    Historical Precedent: This is not a new problem. After firing 59 Tomahawks in 2017 and 66 in 2018 during strikes in Syria, the Navy purchased only 100 in 2018 and zero in 2019.

    Production & Procurement Shortfalls:

        Over the last decade, the Navy has procured just 1,234 Tomahawks, averaging only 8.8 new missiles per capable ship.

        The 2024 White House budget requests zero new land-attack Tomahawks, instead funding the modification of 50 existing missiles.

        Each new Tomahawk has a two-year lead time. Orders from 2023 will not begin delivery until January 2025, at a rate of only five missiles per month.

    Large-Scale Conflict Risk: During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, the U.S. used approximately 800 Tomahawks. At current production rates, replenishing that amount would take a decade. This shortfall creates a significant risk in a potential conflict with China.]]></description>
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    <title>BulgarianMilitary 20250405 - Giant US C-5 airlifter delivers high-tech defenses to Israel</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-26T14:33:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/04/05/giant-u-s-c-5-airlifter-delivers-high-tech-defenses-to-israel/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Delivery Event: A U.S. Air Force C-5M Super Galaxy delivered cargo to Nevatim Airbase, Israel, on April 5, 2025.

    Cargo Likely: High-tech defense supplies, primarily related to the U.S. THAAD missile defense system deployed nearby in the Negev Desert. This likely includes replenishment missiles used in recent intercepts.

    Recent THAAD Use: The THAAD system at Nevatim successfully intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile on December 27, 2024, its first combat use in the region.

    Reason for Replenishment: THAAD interceptors are expensive (~$12 million each) and stocks are depleted by intercepting threats from Iran-backed groups like Yemen's Houthi rebels and potential threats from Hezbollah and Syria.

    Regional Threats: The delivery occurs amid heightened tensions, including ballistic missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthis on Israel and past Iranian missile strikes on Nevatim (April & October 2024).

    Strategic Significance: The mission signals deepening U.S.-Israel military cooperation and preparedness for sustained pressure or escalation.

    Aircraft Capability: The C-5M is a massive strategic airlifter capable of carrying over 120 tons. Its payload capacity could transport dozens of THAAD interceptors and related equipment.

    Route: The aircraft flew from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, to Nevatim (~1,800 miles) and returned, tracked publicly.

    Nevatim's Role: The airbase is a key Israeli defense hub, housing F-35I stealth fighters and integrated air defense systems, including the U.S. THAAD battery.

    Historical Context: This follows a pattern of U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation, including a 2019 joint exercise deploying THAAD to Nevatim. Ramstein is a standard staging point.

    Uncertainty: While THAAD replenishment is the primary focus, the exact cargo manifest is classified, leaving room for speculation about other potential defense supplies.

THAAD launcher: 38t, AN/TPY-2: 34+27/28 = 62t, THAAD pallet: 10-15t -> 110-115t total; C-17 payload: 77.5t, C-5M payload: 127.5t]]></description>
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    <title>NavyTimes 2025-06-25 Strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by months, US report says</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-25T16:44:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report suggests recent U.S. strikes set back Iran's nuclear program by only a few months, not "obliterated" it as claimed by President Donald Trump.

    The report indicates that while nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan sustained significant damage, they were not totally destroyed.

    Key findings suggest Iran moved some of its highly enriched uranium before the U.S. strikes, and many of its centrifuges (needed for further enrichment) remain largely intact.

    At the deeply buried Fordo uranium enrichment plant, U.S. bunker-buster bombs caused the entrance to collapse and damaged infrastructure, but the underground facilities were not destroyed.

    The White House, President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected the DIA assessment, with Trump maintaining the program was "obliterated."

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also asserted that Iran's nuclear program was "brought to ruin."

    Experts and satellite imagery (from firms like Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs PBC) suggest Iran may have preemptively moved enriched uranium and sealed off parts of facilities like Fordo before the strikes.

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has previously warned that Iran possesses enough enriched uranium to make several nuclear bombs.

    Experts believe that despite the strikes, Iran retains a "solid foundation" for a reconstituted covert nuclear program and could quickly enrich uranium to weapons-grade, though it would face disadvantages due to lost equipment and personnel.]]></description>
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    <title>Foreign Affaris 20120615 Why Iran Should Get the Bomb: Nuclear Balancing Would Mean Stability</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-25T14:17:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/iran/2012-06-15/why-iran-should-get-bomb</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Kenneth N. Waltz argues that a nuclear-armed Iran would likely be the best outcome for Middle East stability, contrary to prevailing U.S., European, and Israeli views.

    He contends that sanctions are unlikely to deter Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons if it deems them necessary for its security, citing North Korea as an example.

    A "breakout capability" (ability to quickly build a bomb without testing) might not satisfy Israel, potentially pushing Iran towards full weaponization due to continued Israeli sabotage.

    Waltz posits that Israel's existing regional nuclear monopoly is the primary source of instability, and Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons is a natural "balancing" response.

    Fears of Iranian irrationality are dismissed; Waltz asserts Iranian leaders are rational and seek survival, making nuclear deterrence applicable. A first strike against Israel is unlikely due to massive retaliation.

    Historical precedent suggests new nuclear states (e.g., China, India, Pakistan) become more cautious, not more aggressive, and are unlikely to transfer nuclear weapons to terrorists due to risks of detection and loss of control.

    Concerns about a regional nuclear arms race are exaggerated; Israel’s nuclear arsenal did not trigger one, and Iran’s is unlikely to.

    A nuclear Iran would lead to mutual deterrence with Israel, similar to the India-Pakistan dynamic, ultimately enhancing regional stability.

    Waltz recommends dropping sanctions on Iran and continuing diplomacy to help Western powers adjust to this eventuality.]]></description>
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    <title>Foreign Affairs 2025-07/08 Europe’s Bad Nuclear Options: And Why They May Be the Only Path to Security</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-25T14:08:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://archive.ph/HijVj</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Europe is concerned about its security due to the war in Ukraine, Russian aggression, and doubts about the U.S. commitment to its defense, particularly the nuclear umbrella, under a new Trump administration.

    French President Macron has proposed that France's nuclear arsenal could serve its European neighbors, an idea previously ignored but now gaining traction due to the worsened geopolitical situation.

    Europe needs to rethink its deterrence strategies if the American nuclear umbrella is no longer reliable.

    Historically, many European countries have been skeptical of nuclear weapons, associating them with destruction rather than deterrence, though the Ukraine war has refocused attention on the nuclear threat from Russia.

    Russia's large nuclear arsenal, its stationing of warheads in Belarus, and President Putin's nuclear threats are significant concerns for Europe.

    Three main options for an independent European nuclear deterrent are being considered, though none are currently ideal:

        An extended deterrent provided by France (and potentially the UK): Faces credibility issues due to the limited size of their arsenals compared to Russia's and questions about their willingness to use strategic weapons in response to tactical attacks. Beneficiary countries would likely need to fund arsenal expansion.

        A collective, pan-European nuclear deterrent: This would rely on French and British arsenals but be jointly controlled. While incentivizing shared funding, it's a nonstarter for France and the UK due to sovereignty concerns over launch authority.

        Acquisition of nuclear weapons by additional European states (e.g., Germany, Poland): Could offer robust deterrence but faces significant hurdles, including time to develop, risk of preemptive strikes, legal barriers (like the Nonproliferation Treaty and Two Plus Four Treaty for Germany), and potential for wider proliferation.

    Public opinion in some European countries is shifting, with a March poll showing 61% support for a French nuclear umbrella.

    The credibility of any nuclear deterrent depends on capability and the resolve to use it; current European options struggle to meet these criteria.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Europe nuclear_weapons Russia nuclear_deterrence NATO nuclear_umbrella</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/a-knockout-blow-for-llms/">
    <title>A Knockout Blow for LLMs? – Communications of the ACM</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-17T12:22:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/a-knockout-blow-for-llms/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[* Context & author – Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus’ CACM blog post (16 Jun 2025) reacts to a new Apple research paper he calls “devastating” for large-language/“reasoning” models (LLMs/LRMs).

* What Apple did – Apple’s team systematically tested state-of-the-art models (e.g., Anthropic o3-min high, Claude) on classic algorithmic/logic tasks and out-of-distribution (OOD) variants, repeating and extending its 2024 study.

* Headline result – Even the newest “reasoning” models fail badly once a problem is pushed slightly outside their training distribution; pure scaling plus “inference-time compute” does not fix this.

* Tower of Hanoi case – Models solve ≤7-disc versions inconsistently and collapse at 8 discs; accuracy <80 % for Claude on 7 discs and near-zero on 8.

* Following instructions still fails – In Apple’s §4.4, giving models the correct algorithmic steps did not improve success rates, implying the internal “reasoning trace” is disconnected from actual execution.

* Marcus’ long-standing critique confirmed – Since 1998 he has argued neural nets generalize only within the training distribution; Apple’s data “echoes and amplifies” that claim.

* Rao Kambhampati’s chain-of-thought critique echoed – Apple backs Rao’s finding that visible chains of thought often mis-represent what the network really computes.

* Implication for AGI hopes – Models that can’t reliably execute an algorithm discovered in 1957 are unlikely to reach robust general intelligence; business users should not treat LLMs as drop-in solvers for complex tasks.

* Marcus’ caveat – Humans also blunder on large Tower-of-Hanoi instances, but AGI should exceed human limits, not mirror them.

* Bigger lesson – LLMs remain useful for coding, brainstorming, and text generation, yet cannot replace well-specified symbolic algorithms; hybrid neurosymbolic systems may fare better.

* Bottom line – The paper delivers a “knockout blow” to the idea that current LRM architectures merely need more scale or longer reasoning windows to achieve reliable, out-of-distribution reasoning. 
]]></description>
<dc:subject>LLM Apple reasoning AGI</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/operation-rising-lion-first-72-hours">
    <title>Operation Rising Lion: The First 72 Hours | Royal United Services Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-17T12:09:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/operation-rising-lion-first-72-hours</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[* Launch and scale: Operation Rising Lion began in the early hours of 13 June 2025, Israel’s largest strike on Iran since the 1980-89 Iran-Iraq War.

* First-day mass sortie: >200 Israeli combat aircraft hit 100+ targets in the opening 24 hours, dwarfing previous Israel-Iran actions.

* Leadership decapitation: Strikes killed Iran’s Armed-Forces Commander-in-Chief, IRGC commander, IRGC Aerospace chief, former SNSC head and multiple senior nuclear scientists.

* Expansion by 15 June: Total targets exceeded 250, including ballistic-missile sites, energy facilities and the Ministry of Intelligence & Security in Tehran.

* Covert arm: Concurrent Mossad infiltration teams pre-positioned weapons, drones and loitering munitions, suppressing air defences ahead of incoming jets.

* Nuclear complex damage: Natanz Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant and its power systems were destroyed; Isfahan’s UCF and FPFP wiped out, but Fordow’s deeply-buried plant and Natanz FEP remain intact.

* Scientific cadre hit: Israel has assassinated >12 Iranian nuclear scientists and struck SPND headquarters.

* Iran’s riposte: “Operation True Promise III” launched ~200 Shahed drones (mostly intercepted) and 280–300 ballistic missiles; ~90 % were shot down by Israel’s layered defences aided by US assets.

* Israeli edge: Two decades of planning produced surprise, real-time intelligence, air superiority and a robust integrated air-/missile-defence shield, while Iranian air defences collapsed.

* Nuclear setback, not defeat: Destruction of PFEP, UCF and FPFP slows fissile-material output, yet Iran retains key enrichment capacity and technical expertise, limiting strategic impact.

* Political fallout: Tehran is debating withdrawal from the NPT and curbing IAEA access, risking total monitoring loss and further escalation.

* Uncertain end-state: Netanyahu frames the campaign as an assault on Iran’s security pillars; future hinges on missile stockpiles, possible US strikes on Fordow, and Iranian proxy or Strait-of-Hormuz options.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Iran Israel nuclear_program uranium_enrichment</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://broadbandbreakfast.com/chris-scharrer-why-would-spacex-need-20b-from-bead/">
    <title>Chris Scharrer: Why Would SpaceX Need $20B from BEAD?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-06T11:58:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://broadbandbreakfast.com/chris-scharrer-why-would-spacex-need-20b-from-bead/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Starlink is proposed as a short-term broadband solution, especially for hard-to-reach areas, while fiber remains the long-term priority for performance, reliability, and lifespan.

$3.5B could equip all 6.4M currently unserved U.S. homes with Starlink kits at retail prices (~$548 each).

Starlink’s global network currently has ~7,000 satellites in orbit; the target is 42,000, with lifespans of ~5 years, requiring 8,400 replacements annually.

BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) is already “tech-neutral” but prioritizes Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH).

State-level planning reflects this: Nevada plans 80% FTTH, 11% hybrid fiber, 9% wireless (including Starlink); Maine plans 9,000 Starlink kits with state funds.

Concerns include $10B–$20B Starlink funding estimates exceeding the actual $3.5B cost, raising questions about inflated subsidies.

U.S. government remains the largest customer of Iridium, another LEO provider, hinting Starlink might inherit that role.

Starlink coverage over U.S. is <2% of satellite orbit time—yet the U.S. may be footing global infrastructure bills.

Texas offered to return $1B BEAD funds, potentially reallocatable to Starlink-based interim service.

Bottom line: Starlink is useful now, but cannot replace fiber’s 100-year utility and lower lifecycle costs.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Starlink Elon_Musk BEAD</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Amazons-Project-Kuiper-vs-Starlink-How-do-they-compare">
    <title>Amazon's Project Kuiper vs. Starlink: How do they compare?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-06T11:54:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Amazons-Project-Kuiper-vs-Starlink-How-do-they-compare</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amazon Project Kuiper

    Launched: First prototypes (KuiperSat-1 & 2) in Oct 2023; first full batch (27 satellites) on April 28, 2025.
    Goal: Deploy 3,236 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to deliver affordable, high-speed internet to remote regions.
    Investment: $10 billion.
    Infrastructure: Combines LEO satellites, compact terminals, ground stations, and AWS.
    Tech: Custom “Prometheus” chip integrates 5G, base station, and backhaul functions.

    Terminals:

        Standard: 11-inch, <5 lbs, up to 400 Mbps.

        Ultra-compact: 7-inch, ~1 lb, up to 100 Mbps.

        High-bandwidth: 19x30-inch, up to 1 Gbps (enterprise).

    Launch partners: ULA, Blue Origin, SpaceX, Arianespace; >80 launches planned.
    Orbit Altitude: ~550 km.
    Service Start: Beta in late 2025; commercial rollout begins 2026.
    Security: End-to-end encryption, AWS-integrated threat detection, software updates, debris monitoring.

SpaceX Starlink

    Launched: First operational launch in May 2019.
    Deployed Satellites: ~8,000 (target: 12,000+).
    Service Reach: Available in 125+ countries; >5 million users.
    Tech: Phased array antennae for low-latency connectivity.

    Terminals:

        Mini to Enterprise: 25–220 Mbps depending on model.

        Pricing: $349 kit, $80–$120/month.

    Orbit Altitude: ~440 km.
    Security: Similar to Kuiper—encryption, software updates, threat detection.

Comparative Notes

    Parent Companies: Amazon vs. SpaceX.
    Integration: Kuiper with AWS; Starlink with SpaceX.
    Availability: Starlink fully operational; Kuiper in early phase.

    Competitors:

        OneWeb: 600+ satellites, targeting enterprises.

        Telesat Lightspeed: Canada-based, launching ~2027.

        China’s GuoWang: State-backed, global LEO system under development.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Starlink Elon_Musk Jeff_Bezos Project_Kuiper LEO</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/162641-ukraine-russia-nuclear-blow/">
    <title>Ukraine Attacks Part of Russia's Nuclear Triad. Russia May Strike Nuclear Blow in Response</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-05T14:41:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/162641-ukraine-russia-nuclear-blow/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Sunday, June 1st, Ukraine launched a significant and coordinated drone attack on several Russian military airfields across the country, including in the Murmansk and Amur regions. The strikes, aimed at crippling Russia's long-range aviation capabilities, were reportedly conducted using numerous FPV drones launched from trucks. These drones utilized a non-GPS-based navigation system, allowing them to bypass Russian electronic warfare defenses. While Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported that several aircraft were damaged, Ukrainian sources claimed the attack led to the destruction of as much as 34 percent of Russia's strategic fleet.

The primary targets were Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 bombers, key assets in the Russian military. These planes are responsible for launching cruise missiles, such as the Kh-101 and Kh-22, which have been used extensively to strike targets within Ukraine. The aircraft were reportedly stationed in the open, a practice stemming from the START III treaty's requirements for satellite visibility, which Russia suspended in 2023.

The most severe implication of this attack is its threat to Russia's nuclear deterrence. The Tu-95MS strategic bomber is a cornerstone of Russia's nuclear triad, capable of carrying the Kh-102 cruise missile, which is armed with a thermonuclear warhead. The article points out that under Russia's official nuclear doctrine, an attack on "critically important...military facilities" that leads to the "disruption of the response actions of nuclear forces" is a condition that could justify a retaliatory nuclear strike. By successfully targeting these essential nuclear-capable bombers, Ukraine's actions could be interpreted by Moscow as meeting this criterion, raising the threat of a potential nuclear response.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Russia Ukraine START_III drones</dc:subject>
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    <title>Kerch Bridge damaged in 'special operation' – SBU</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-03T16:43:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1076958.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On June 3, 2025, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported a special operation targeting the Kerch Bridge. Explosives equivalent to 1,100 kg of TNT were placed on the underwater supports and detonated at 4:44 a.m., causing severe damage at the base of the structure. According to the SBU, the operation lasted several months and resulted in no civilian casualties. The bridge was described as being in an emergency condition following the detonation. SBU head Vasyl Maliuk supervised the operation and confirmed that the explosives were placed without foreign assistance.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Ukraine Kerch_bridge Russia Crimea</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/20772">
    <title>Analysis: Truth of First Attack on Crimean Bridge Finally Revealed – Or Is It?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-03T16:37:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/20772</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On October 8, 2022, a large explosion severely damaged the Kerch Bridge linking Russia to occupied Crimea, collapsing two road spans and igniting a fuel train, disrupting road and rail traffic. Initial speculation about the cause included everything from truck bombs to underwater attacks.

Nearly two years later, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) head Maj. Gen. Vasyl Maliuk confirmed it was a Ukrainian operation. Planning began shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion. Due to bridge security, explosives were concealed inside metal cylinders mimicking polyethylene film spindles and transported via truck. Over 20 tons TNT equivalent of RDX-based explosives were used. Despite GPS jammers, detonation was successfully timed near the bridge’s center.

Russia’s FSB investigation closely mirrored Maliuk’s version, tracing the shipment’s route from Odesa through multiple countries before reaching the bridge. Russia arrested 22 alleged accomplices, though SBU claims they were unaware smugglers. The FSB’s conclusion—once dismissed as flawed—unexpectedly aligns with the real operation details, possibly by design.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Ukraine Kerch_bridge Russia Crimea</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-big-beautiful-bill-aa2bc70b0ebdb219b5dd3e9f8fae03af">
    <title>Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration | AP News</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-29T22:23:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-big-beautiful-bill-aa2bc70b0ebdb219b5dd3e9f8fae03af</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk is leaving his role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump, where he led efforts to downsize and reform the federal bureaucracy. Announced Wednesday evening, his departure follows a controversial period marked by thousands of layoffs, major cuts to government agencies, and extensive litigation. Musk initially aimed to cut $2 trillion in federal spending but reduced his goal to $1 trillion, then to $150 billion, due to mounting resistance. He often clashed with senior Trump officials and faced strong political opposition, achieving far less than intended during his time in Washington.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Elon_Musk DOGE</dc:subject>
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    <title>NYT 20200302 - Investors Fear IMF Negotiations Will Let Argentina Off the Fiscal Hook</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-06T02:59:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/02/world/americas/02reuters-argentina-debt-imf-analysis.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The negotiations with the IMF are part of a broader restructuring of about $100 billion in debt that Argentina's government says it cannot pay unless given time to revive stalled economic growth.

Analysts and bondholders said discussions on a new program between President Alberto Fernandez's government and the Fund are better than the alternative of having Argentina unilaterally impose terms without IMF feedback.

But so far, the Fund has not challenged Argentina's refusal to impose fiscal austerity on an economy in recession. 

March 31 - Argentina's deadline to deal with the country's public debt.

Carlos de Sousa, lead emerging markets economist at Oxford Economics, said it was unlikely Argentina and the IMF would agree on a new program before the year ends.

The last time Argentine did a big bond restructuring was in 2005 and 2010. That deal, done without the IMF's endorsement, resulted in years of lawsuits that kept the country in default until 2016.  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>Argentina IMF debt sovereign_default public_debt</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://rcb.gov.pl/grypa-w-sezonie-epidemicznym-2018-2019-w-polsce-i-europie/">
    <title>RCB - Grypa w sezonie epidemicznym 2018/2019 w Polsce i Europie</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-05T22:47:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://rcb.gov.pl/grypa-w-sezonie-epidemicznym-2018-2019-w-polsce-i-europie/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sezon 2018-09-01 - 2019-03-15:  
- 3 337 044 zgłoszenia przypadków zachorowań
- 157 867 zachorowań
- 108 przypadków śmiertelnych (0.07%)

więcej: http://wwwold.pzh.gov.pl/oldpage/epimeld/grypa/index.htm]]></description>
<dc:subject>grypa</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/R-text-data">
    <title>R Text Data Compilation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-27T18:54:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt/R-text-data</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Repository of textual data sets and packages for text mining/NLP in R]]></description>
<dc:subject>R text_mining NLP</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/introducing-adanet-fast-and-flexible.html">
    <title>Google 20181030 - Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-17T21:10:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/10/introducing-adanet-fast-and-flexible.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AdaNet, a lightweight TensorFlow-based framework for automatically learning high-quality models with minimal expert intervention. AdaNet builds on our recent reinforcement learning and evolutionary-based AutoML efforts to be fast and flexible while providing learning guarantees. Importantly, AdaNet provides a general framework for not only learning a neural network architecture, but also for learning to ensemble to obtain even better models.

AdaNet is capable of adding subnetworks of different depths and widths to create a diverse ensemble, and trade off performance improvement with the number of parameters.

AdaNet implements the TensorFlow Estimator interface.

KW: ensemble of neural networks]]></description>
<dc:subject>Google machine_learning AdaNet enseble_learning TensorFlow AutoML</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:7a146d7e77ae/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:machine_learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:AdaNet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:enseble_learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:TensorFlow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:AutoML"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/">
    <title>AutoML Tables documentation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-17T20:53:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AutoML Tables enables your entire team to automatically build and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models on structured data at massively increased speed and scale.]]></description>
<dc:subject>machine_learning Google AutoML</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:889315de6ed3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:AutoML"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d457.htm">
    <title>BIS 20190225 - Minimum capital requirements for market risk</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-13T10:03:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d457.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The document sets outs the amended minimum capital requirements for market risk that will serve as the Pillar  1  minimum  capital  requirement  as  of  1  January  2022,  replacing  the  current  minimum  capital  requirements for market risk as set out in Basel II1 and its subsequent amendments.

non-technical description of the overall market risk framework: https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d457_note.pdf]]></description>
<dc:subject>BIS market_risk capital_requirements trading_book Basel_III risk_management</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:71b08fa4e609/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:market_risk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:capital_requirements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:trading_book"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Basel_III"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://m-clark.github.io/text-analysis-with-R/">
    <title>[2018-09-09] An Introduction to Text Processing and Analysis with R</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-12T19:03:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://m-clark.github.io/text-analysis-with-R/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dealing with text is typically not even considered in the applied statistical training of most disciplines. This is in direct contrast with how often it has to be dealt with prior to more common analysis, or how interesting it might be to have text be the focus of analysis. This document and corresponding workshop will aim to provide a sense of the things one can do with text, and the sorts of analyses that might be useful.

https://m-clark.github.io/]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining R</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:bebdef635148/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:R"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/representation/word2vec">
    <title>Tensorflow - Vector Representations of Words</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-12T19:00:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/representation/word2vec</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Vector space models (VSMs) represent (embed) words in a continuous vector space where semantically similar words are mapped to nearby points ('are embedded nearby each other'). VSMs have a long, rich history in NLP, but all methods depend in some way or another on the Distributional Hypothesis, which states that words that appear in the same contexts share semantic meaning. The different approaches that leverage this principle can be divided into two categories: count-based methods (e.g. Latent Semantic Analysis), and predictive methods (e.g. neural probabilistic language models).]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining word2vec TensorFlow Google Python</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:037e03ddeaac/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:word2vec"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:TensorFlow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Google"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://skymind.ai/wiki/word2vec">
    <title>A Beginner's Guide to Word2Vec and Neural Word Embeddings</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-12T18:58:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://skymind.ai/wiki/word2vec</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Word2vec is a two-layer neural net that processes text. Its input is a text corpus and its output is a set of vectors: feature vectors for words in that corpus. While Word2vec is not a deep neural network, it turns text into a numerical form that deep nets can understand.]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining word2vec deep_learning</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:f901a61aa3ee/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:word2vec"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:deep_learning"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/explore-artificial-intelligence/word2vec-a-baby-step-in-deep-learning-but-a-giant-leap-towards-natural-language-processing-40fe4e8602ba">
    <title>medium 20180512 - Word2Vec — a baby step in Deep Learning but a giant leap towards Natural Language Processing</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-12T18:56:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/explore-artificial-intelligence/word2vec-a-baby-step-in-deep-learning-but-a-giant-leap-towards-natural-language-processing-40fe4e8602ba</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Word2Vec model is used for learning vector representations of words called “word embeddings”. This is typically done as a preprocessing step, after which the learned vectors are fed into a discriminative model (typically an RNN) to generate predictions and perform all sort of interesting things.]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining word2vec</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:3e374dbf12ce/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:word2vec"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://github.com/mukul13/rword2vec">
    <title>rword2vec</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-12T18:54:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://github.com/mukul13/rword2vec</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[R wrapper to google's word2vec. The word2vec tool takes a text corpus as input and produces the word vectors as output. It first constructs a vocabulary from the training text data and then learns vector representation of words.

library(rword2vec)]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining R Google</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:a0d4da7ea5dc/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:R"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Google"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://koheiw.net/?p=468">
    <title>R and Python text analysis packages performance comparison</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-12T18:50:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://koheiw.net/?p=468</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The performance gain of quanteda’s new architecture became apparent in the head-to-head comparison with gensim. Quanteda’s execution time is around 50% shorter, and peak memory consumption is 40% smaller than gensim.]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining R Python quanteda gensim</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:1f51edfc5afb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:R"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Python"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:quanteda"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:gensim"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-20/swiss-rates-can-be-lowered-further-snb-s-jordan-tells-blick?srnd=fixed-income">
    <title>Bloomberg 20190420 - Swiss Rates Can Be Lowered Further, SNB's President Says</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-20T23:01:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-20/swiss-rates-can-be-lowered-further-snb-s-jordan-tells-blick?srnd=fixed-income</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Swiss National Bank can lower its subzero interest rates even further, President Thomas Jordan told newspaper Blick.

In the interview, Jordan affirmed the ongoing need for a deposit rate of minus 0.75 percent plus a pledge to intervene in currency markets, if necessary, adding the franc remains highly valued. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>Switzerland interest_rate SNB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:c3669b655150/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Switzerland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:interest_rate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:SNB"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/02/26/multi-billion-dollar-debt-crisis-looms-for-dubai/#3c595ca637ab">
    <title>Forbes 20190226 - Multibillion-dollar Debt Crisis Looms For Dubai</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-20T22:17:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/02/26/multi-billion-dollar-debt-crisis-looms-for-dubai/#3c595ca637ab</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi's government and the UAE's central bank have agreed to extend the loans on the $20 billion debts for another five years.

Unfortunately, the loan rejiggering doesn't solve Dubai's problem. There is still another lingering bill which totals approximately half the value Dubai's entire economy.

"Dubai's GRE debt amounts to $60bn, equal to 50% of Dubai's GDP and around half of this is due to mature in the next three years," the Capital Economics report states.

In other words, the GRE's have a bill of around $30 billion coming due in the next 36 months.

And it gets worse.

The problem is that while the loan rollover will provide a safety net if the GREs run into financial trouble, it does absolutely nothing to fix the underlying problem of a weakening economy in Dubai brought on by softer oil prices, and a likely collapse in the real estate market due to overbuilding. All of that puts a damper on businesses in Dubai including the GREs, which may find it hard to pay the interest on the outstanding loans or refinance those debts.

(...)

The slowdown in global trade hasn't helped Dubai either. In a similar way to Singapore and Hong Kong in the far east, Dubai has set itself up as a trading hub in the Gulf, benefiting from the flow in international trade. However, the recent slump in trade, combined with growing protectionism means that the city's business will suffer.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Dubai economy debt crude_oil crude_price real_estate international_trade</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:331d189fd1ab/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-06/nobody-knows-how-dubai-s-economy-s-been-doing-lately">
    <title>Bloomberg 20190306 - Nobody Knows How Dubai’s Economy’s Been Doing Lately</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-20T21:33:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-06/nobody-knows-how-dubai-s-economy-s-been-doing-lately</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Dubai] hasn’t reported how its gross domestic product performed since 2017. Also missing are other figures considered basic elsewhere, ranging from retail and auto sales to industrial production.

The market is in the dark at a time when trading volumes in local equities have plunged following the collapse of oil prices, putting plans for initial public offerings on hold. Dubai, one of seven of the United Arab Emirates, has suffered faster stock declines last year than its peers in developing nations despite recouping losses in 2019.

The 50-day daily average value of equities exchanged in Dubai’s main stock index has fallen about 92 percent from a peak in 2014, when MSCI Inc. officially included the U.A.E. in the emerging-markets category.

https://www.dsc.gov.ae/en-us/Themes/Pages/National-Accounts.aspx?Theme=24]]></description>
<dc:subject>Dubai economy crude_price crude_oil</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:21910f702204/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:Dubai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/t:crude_price"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-19/deutsche-bank-commerzbank-merger-could-end-poorly-for-eu-germany">
    <title>Bloomberg 20190319 - Germany Makes Its Big Bank Problem Even Bigger</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-20T08:24:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-19/deutsche-bank-commerzbank-merger-could-end-poorly-for-eu-germany</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank is in talks to merge with crosstown rival Commerzbank — a move that Germany’s finance ministry has favored for months. The result would be a behemoth with assets of about 1.8 trillion euros, equivalent to more than half of Germany’s annual economic output; the merged bank would be Europe’s third biggest after the U.K.’s HSBC and France’s BNP Paribas.
[Commerzbank is 15% owned by the German government.]]]></description>
<dc:subject>Deutsche_Bank Commerzbank</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:1cfe8c0ffda2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kurzweilai.net/intels-new-loihi-chip-mimics-neurons-and-synapses-in-the-human-brain">
    <title>Kurzweil 20170929 - Intel’s new ‘Loihi’ chip mimics neurons and synapses in the human brain</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-30T07:17:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kurzweilai.net/intels-new-loihi-chip-mimics-neurons-and-synapses-in-the-human-brain</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Intel announced this week a self-learning, energy-efficient neuromorphic (brain-like) research chip codenamed “Loihi”* that mimics how the human brain functions.  The chip automatically gets smarter over time and doesn’t need to be trained in the traditional way. He sees applications in areas that would benefit from autonomous operation and continuous learning in an unstructured environment, such as automotive, industrial, and personal-robotics areas.

more: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intels-new-self-learning-chip-promises-accelerate-artificial-intelligence/]]></description>
<dc:subject>Intel Loihi machine_learning neural_networks</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:c0fc5294c8ac/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kurzweilai.net/musk-launches-company-to-pursue-neural-lace-brain-interface-technology">
    <title>KurzweilAI 20170327 - Musk launches company to pursue ‘neural lace’ brain-interface technology</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-03T03:11:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kurzweilai.net/musk-launches-company-to-pursue-neural-lace-brain-interface-technology</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk has launched a California-based company called Neuralink Corp.

Neural lace would help prevent humans from becoming “house cats” to AI, he suggests. “I think one of the solutions that seems maybe the best is to add an AI layer,” Musk hinted at the Code Conference last year. It would be a “digital layer above the cortex that could work well and symbiotically with you.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Elon_Musk neural_lace Neuralink AI</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:fd4ffefc1a86/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/elon-musk-could-soon-share-more-on-his-plan-to-help-humans-keep-up-with-ai/">
    <title>TechCrunch 20170125 - Elon Musk could soon share more on his plan to help humans keep up with AI</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-26T05:48:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/elon-musk-could-soon-share-more-on-his-plan-to-help-humans-keep-up-with-ai/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The fundamental limitation is input/output. We’re already a cyborg, I mean you have a digital or partial version of yourself in the form of your emails and your social media and all the things that you do and you have basically superpowers with your computer and your phone and the applications that are there. You have more power than the president of the united states had 20 years ago. you can answer any question, you can videoconference with anyone anywhere, you can send a message to anyone instantly, you can just do incredible things. But the constraint is input/output. We’re I/O bound – particularly output bound. Your output level is so low, particularly on a phone, your two thumbs sort of tapping away. This is ridiculously slow. Our input is much better because we have a high-bandwidth visual interface to the brain, our eyes take in a lot of data. So there’s many orders of magnitude difference between input and output. Effectively merging in a symbiotic way with digital intelligence revolves around eliminating the I/O constraint, which would be some sort of direct cortical interface […] a neural lace."]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:e0178d34f785/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Reuters 20160418 - UBS blamed in U.S. trial for $2.1 billion in mortgage bond losses</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-22T07:19:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ubs-lawsuit-idUSKCN0XF2I8</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[UBS AG went to trial on Monday over $2.1 billion in losses that investors incurred on mortgage-backed securities after the collapse of the U.S. housing market.

Sean Baldwin, the trusts' lawyer, in his opening statement said UBS contractually agreed that the mortgages underlying those securities would meet certain standards. When pervasive defects emerged, the bank refused to buy them back, he said. Baldwin said UBS failed to vet the loans, which it acquired from "shady" lenders that later failed.

Thomas Nolan, a lawyer for UBS, told U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel that the trusts' lawyers were looking at the loans with a "hindsight bias," and the question was whether the loans were seen as defective when they were issued in 2006 and 2007.

The lawsuit follows a related action against UBS by bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd over the same mortgage backed securities. UBS in 2013 agreed to pay $358 million to Assured, which was represented by the same lawyers as the three trusts.

According to the lawsuit, 17,082 loans were pooled into three trusts that issued securities entitling investors to payments made by borrowers.

The case is Mastr Adjustable Rate Mortgages Trust 2006-OA2 et al v. UBS Real Estate Securities Inc, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-07322.]]></description>
<dc:subject>UBS MBS Assured_Guaranty banks</dc:subject>
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    <title>Bankier 20160401 - Bank BPH będzie prowadził w Polsce działalność hipoteczną i zatrudniał około 150 osób</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-01T11:50:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Bank-BPH-bedzie-prowadzil-w-Polsce-dzialalnosc-hipoteczna-i-zatrudnial-okolo-150-osob-3508220.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bank BPH, po nabyciu przez Alior Bank jego podstawowej działalności, będzie prowadził w Polsce działalność hipoteczną i będzie zatrudniał około 150 osób.

Po podziale w BPH pozostanie działalność hipoteczna, która będzie obejmowała portfel kredytów hipotecznych Banku BPH (w szczególności wszelkie kredyty hipoteczne w polskiej walucie i innych walutach udzielone na rzecz osób fizycznych na cele mieszkaniowe), zobowiązania finansowe wobec podmiotów z grupy GE oraz inne aktywa i pasywa związane z powyższym portfelem kredytów hipotecznych.

[ BPH = PLN 32.11 ] ]]></description>
<dc:subject>banks BPH GE kredyty_frankowe</dc:subject>
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    <title>Gazeta 20160401 - Alior Bank przejmuje Bank BPH</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-01T08:04:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Należący do PZU Alior Bank podpisał wstępną umowę zakupu podstawowej działalności Banku BPH od General Electric za 1,225 miliarda złotych.

Alior nabędzie podstawową działalność Banku BPH. GE zachowa portfel kredytów hipotecznych w złotych i walutach obcych o wartości 3,9 miliarda dolarów (ok. 16 mld zł, w tym 12 mld zł w walutach obcych) oraz BPH Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych (aktywa <3 mld zł).

Nabycie działalności Banku BPH zostanie sfinansowane poprzez emisję nowych akcji, z zachowaniem prawa poboru na rzecz obecnych akcjonariuszy Alior Banku.

Zamknięcie transakcji, której przeprowadzenie uzależnione jest między innymi od uzyskania zgód Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF) oraz Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów (UOKiK), planowane jest na czwarty kwartał 2016 roku.

Po połączeniu aktywa Alior Banku osiągną poziom około 60 miliardów złotych, co da mu dziewiąte miejsce w polskim sektorze bankowym.

Około 30% akcji Alior Banku posiada PZU.

[ ALR = PLN 67.83 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Reuters 20160401 - Tesla unveils $35,000-Model 3 with range of 215 miles</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-01T07:41:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On March 31st, 2016 Tesla unveiled Model 3. The vehicle will go into production in 2017 at a starting price of $35,000. More than 130,000 ordered the car.

Tesla plans to sell 500,000 cars per year by 2020.

GM is on track to beat Tesla to the market with its Chevrolet Bolt electric car, which GM says will launch late this year, offering about 200 miles of electric driving range and a starting price of around $35,000.

A new generation of Nissan Motor Co's Leaf electric car is also expected to offer more driving range at a similar price.

Tesla cars in production:

- Roadster - prototypes introduced in July 2006, production started in March 2008, about 2,450 cars sold
- Model S - introduced in June 2012, more than 100,000 sold till December 2015
- Model X - introduced in Februrary 2012, production began in 2015, in 2015Q4 Tesla produced 507 units

[ TSLA = $229.77 ]

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<dc:subject>Tesla automotive electric_vehicle Elon_Musk</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://strefainwestorow.pl/artykuly/debiut-ipo/20150916/analiza-ipo-inpost-sa-czy-warto-kupic-akcje-debiutujacej-spolki">
    <title>Strefa Inwestorów 20150916 - Analiza IPO InPost S.A. Czy warto kupić akcje debiutującej spółki?</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-12T20:10:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://strefainwestorow.pl/artykuly/debiut-ipo/20150916/analiza-ipo-inpost-sa-czy-warto-kupic-akcje-debiutujacej-spolki</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Zapisy od 16. września.

Maksymalna cena ustalona na 33 zł przy P/E 23.70 (cena w debiucie - 13. października - wyniesie 25 zł).

...spółka wiąże nadzieje z intensywnym rozwojem rynku e-commerce (wzrost około 20% rocznie). Coraz więcej korzysta się ze sklepów wysyłkowych i to właśnie w dostarczaniu paczek spółka widzi największy potencjał rozwoju. Zarząd nie obawia się też nowej konkurencji, gdyż bariery wejścia na rynek są bardzo duże i nowym podmiotom trudno będzie objąć zasięgiem cały kraj.

Najważniejszym ryzykiem jest możliwość utraty kontraktu na obsługę pocztową sądów i prokuratur. Poprzedni kontrakt został podpisany na dwa lata przez Polską Grupę Pocztową (obecnie jest to spółka zależna od InPost S.A.) w grudniu 2013 r. W 2014 roku przesyłki z tego kontraktu stanowiły 38% wolumenu operacji pocztowych.]]></description>
<dc:subject>InPost Integer.pl GPW IPO</dc:subject>
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    <title>FT 20141013 - Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square fizzles on IPO</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-05T17:31:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shares in hedge fund activist Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings sank nearly 11 per cent on their stock exchange debut on Monday, dashing his hopes that the market would quickly put a premium valuation on his investing acumen.

By the end of the day, the Amsterdam-listed shares in the closed-end fund – whose holdings reflect those of Mr Ackman’s main US hedge fund – had settled at a 9.9 per cent discount to their net asset value.

(...)

In the event, the market’s first day view of Pershing Square compares unfavourably to the 3.6 per cent discount investors currently put on Third Point Offshore Investors, which is run by US activist Dan Loeb and listed in London.

UK-based hedge fund Brevan Howard also runs two listed funds, BH Macro and BH Global, which trade at discounts to their net asset value of 5.2 per cent and 9.9 per cent respectively.

(...)

Pershing Square sold $2.73bn of shares in the initial public offering, having originally said it would raise $2bn. The shares were priced at $25 in the IPO but closed at $22.
]]></description>
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    <title>FT 20150114 - Switzerland unveils draft laws to dismantle bank secrecy</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-16T05:43:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Switzerland’s tradition of bank secrecy, which dates back to the 1930s, has come under mounting international pressure since the financial crisis, as cash-strapped countries around the world try to crack down on tax evasion.

After initially resisting pressure to change its laws, Switzerland has switched tack. In 2013, it signed up to an international convention that sets out the framework for countries to assist each other with requests for tax information. Last year it signed up to an international agreement on automatic information exchange.

In Bern on Wednesday, the government launched a three-month consultation period on two bills that would allow Switzerland to fulfil these international agreements.

As things stand, Switzerland only shares information about foreigners holding offshore accounts in Switzerland if it receives a valid request for information from a foreign tax authority.

If the government’s proposals become law, Switzerland will “spontaneously” inform foreign tax authorities if it comes across information that could be of interest to them — such as property ownership.

On top of this, it will also automatically exchange some information — including an account holder’s name and bank balance, and data about interest and dividend income — with some foreign tax authorities. However, Switzerland has yet to decide with which countries such information sharing will occur.

After the consultations, which run until April 21, are completed, the final proposals must be put before the Swiss parliament, where they could face opposition from some parties. They could also be subject to a popular referendum.

The government said that it hoped that the parliament could discuss the proposals in the autumn, and that this meant that “the legal foundations could come into force from the beginning of 2017, even with a possible referendum. The first automatic exchange of information would then take place in 2018”.

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    <title>Bloomberg 20150113 - Deutsche Bank Plans Fresh Strategy for Unloved Stock</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-15T06:13:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-12/deutsche-bank-plans-fresh-strategy-for-unloved-stock.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The co-chief executive officers of Deutsche Bank AG gave a dim assessment of the revenue outlook yesterday in Frankfurt, a sign of the scale of the revamp they may have to undertake as they refresh their strategy by the end of June.

Deutsche Bank is weighing job cuts, winding down business lines at the investment bank and selling assets, including its Postbank consumer-lending unit in Germany, said a person with knowledge of the review who asked not to be identified. No decisions have been made, the person said. Deutsche Bank shares fell 33 percent in the past 12 months, the biggest decline among top global investment banks, as trading revenue decreased and litigation costs soared.

The “mixed outlook” for European growth as well as low interest rates and new regulation will probably continue to affect the company’s business.

Deutsche Bank is valued at about 34 billion euros, or 0.62 times its tangible book, indicating it’s worth less than investors should expect to receive if the company failed and liquidated its assets. That’s the lowest of the top nine global investment banks, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

[ DBK = EUR 24.19 ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>Deutsche_Bank</dc:subject>
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    <title>Instiutional Investor 20141014 - Pershing Square IPO: Great for Ackman but Investors Have Questions</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-14T20:44:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pershing Square Holdings went public on the Euronext Amsterdam.

What the publicly traded closed-end fund does is allow Ackman the flexibility to have the courage of his convictions without having to worry that investors will get cold feet.Pershing Square Holdings' $3.07 billion in assets (which includes money that existing investors rolled into the new vehicle) is his to invest as he pleases. Investors in the holding company who don't like what Ackman is doing can sell their shares; they have daily liquidity.

Pershing Square Holdings also offers better fees than most hedge funds, including Pershing Square. According to the prospectus, investors in Pershing Square Holdings will pay a 1.5 percent management fee and a performance fee of up to 16 percent. Although Pershing Square's limited partners also pay a 1.5 percent management fee, they pay a 20 percent performance fee. What might really stick in their craw is that the more limited-partner money Pershing Square has, the less the holding company investors pay.]]></description>
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    <title>FT 20150104 - Investor rush to artificial intelligence is real deal</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-05T05:37:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Technologically, it’s a paradigm shift from putting commands into a box to a time when computers watch you and learn,” says Daniel Nadler, another of the AI hopefuls. His company, Kensho, raised $15m recently in pursuit of an ambitious goal: to train computers to replace expensive white-collar workers such as financial analysts.
“We don’t describe what we’re doing as AI — we call it, ‘automating human-intensive knowledge work’,” he says.

The latest AI dawn owes much to new programming techniques for approximating “intelligence” in machines. Foremost among these is machine learning, which involves training machines to identify patterns and make predictions by crunching vast amounts of data. But like other promising new ideas that inspire a rash of start-ups, there is a risk that many companies drawn to the field will struggle to find profitable uses for the technology.

“A lot of these AI platforms are like Swiss army knives,” says Tim Tuttle, chief executive of Expect Labs, which recently raised $13m. “They can do a lot of things, but it’s not clear what the high-value ones will be.”

Start-ups flocking to the field face some daunting competition. The biggest advances in AI are being made inside big tech groups such as Google, IBM and Facebook, which have invested heavily in the field. These companies are secretive about exactly how much they are committing to the technology, but have come out with public demonstrations that experts say show they are ahead: a Google test that identified cats from YouTube videos, a Facebook system called Deep Face that recognises pictures of people, and IBM’s question-answering system, Watson.

The basic uses for the technology fall into several different areas. Thanks to improved pattern recognition capabilities, identifying images — a notoriously hard problem for computers — has become far easier. Vicarious, one of the most ambitious companies in this area, recently raised $72m, after demonstrating that it can solve Captchas, the visual puzzles that are used by websites to distinguish humans from computers.

The same technology is also being used to help computers “understand” language — a problem known as natural language recognition. That is one of the techniques behind systems such as IBM’s Watson, which queries large bodies of information to arrive at a most likely answer.

A third popular use rests on trying to identify relevance — whether that means personalising online content and other recommendations, or more effectively targeting advertising.

As often with a promising new idea, some of the first applications have been in the financial markets, although the amount of money at stake makes those involved wary of talking.

“If your financial application works, why disclose it and arbitrage it away?” says Babak Hodjat, ‎chief scientist of Sentient Technologies. His company draws massive computing power from data centres to run full-blown simulations of financial markets: by applying “evolutionary algorithms” that try to learn from how markets react in different circumstances, it hopes to develop models for predicting how they will behave in future.

The most attractive industries are those with large volumes of data to crunch and high-value problems to solve, such as healthcare, insurance and ecommerce, Sentient says. Computer security and fraud detection are also high on the list of many AI companies.

There are other costs in making the technology functional in real-world applications, says Mr Purpura at Context Relevant: “The real battle isn’t being fought over the underlying machine learning technology, it’s in building support systems to make it usable.” These ancillary technologies include the data “pipes” needed to funnel large amounts of information, he says, as well as control systems needed to make sure AI operates within acceptable business parameters.]]></description>
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    <title>NYT DealBlog 20141124 - A Bearish Hedge Fund Bets Against the Bulls and Still Profits</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-30T08:45:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Universa Investments, a hedge fund founded by Mark Spitznagel, is one of the few firms that is set up with the aim of making money in an economic and financial collapse. In the market turmoil of 2008, Mr. Spitznagel earned large returns.

Universa is saying that its investment strategy has been able to produce consistent gains since then, including a 30 percent return last year, according to firm materials that were reviewed by The New York Times. In comparison, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index in 2013 had a return of 32 percent with dividends reinvested.

In previous media reports, Mr. Spitznagel seemed content with descriptions that his fund had small losses each year as he wagered against the market. The recent fund materials that contain the positive numbers may be marketing materials aimed at selling a type of financial catastrophe insurance to investors who are getting jittery about the stock markets’ gravity-defying rise. The materials show how bearish bets could be paired with broad holdings of stocks — and still produce gains.

The Universa strategy has produced gains of 10 percent this year, slightly less than the stock market overall [S&P500 YTD = 11.86%]. It’s been up every year since 2008, according to the materials.

The footnotes of the materials state that the performance numbers are hypothetical — and may differ from actual results. Universa manages money for clients in separate accounts that may differ from one another.

Universa seems to be saying that its catastrophe insurance is comparatively cheap.

The Universa marketing materials say that its strategy would theoretically result in a 16 percent gain if the S.&P. 500 fell 30 percent.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hedge_funds Universa black_swan risk_management Mark_Spitznagel</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/21/herbalife-ceo-ponzi-scheme">
    <title>The Guardian 20121221 - Herbalife CEO accused of running 'Ponzi scheme'</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-23T09:54:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/21/herbalife-ceo-ponzi-scheme</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[America's highest-paid chief executive has been accused of duping some of the world's poorest people out of $3.8bn (£2.4bn) in "the best managed pyramid scheme in the history of the world".

Michael Johnson has been accused of misleadingly implying that his Herbalife empire of self-employed salespeople could all become millionaires selling dieting supplements door-to-door.

Bill Ackman, an activist investor, said he had made it his "patriotic" duty to bring the company down. He claims that 1.9 million Herbalife salespeople from Arizona to Zambia have failed to make money since the company was founded 32 years ago. Each recruit would have paid about $2,000 for supplies and training, which Ackman said meant they had collectively lost $3.8bn.

Last year, Johnson earned $89m.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Herbalife Pershing_Square Bill_Ackman hedge_funds</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/21/herbalife-ltd-shares-plunge-as-bill-ackman-pledges-to-expose-incredible-fraud-on-tuesday/">
    <title>Financial Post 20140722 - Herbalife Ltd shares soar after Bill Ackman misfires on ‘death blow’</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-22T20:39:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/21/herbalife-ltd-shares-plunge-as-bill-ackman-pledges-to-expose-incredible-fraud-on-tuesday/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Billionaire investor William Ackman’s latest volley of accusations against Herbalife fell flat on Wall Street on Tuesday, with shares in the nutrition company soaring more than 17%.

Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management placed a US$1 billion bet that Herbalife will go bust under regulatory scrutiny, told a conference of investors in New York that the firm’s recruiting methods violate U.S. labor laws by employing drinks makers and babysitters without pay.

He has previously said Herbalife is running a pyramid scheme in the United States and China in which distributors are paid more for finding new recruits than for selling products to end-users – a charge the company has vehemently denied.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Herbalife Bill_Ackman hedge_funds Pershing_Square</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-22/ackman-has-6-months-left-come-devastating-est-hlf-presentation-ever">
    <title>ZeroHedge 20140722 - Ackman Has 6 Months Left To Come Up With The Devastating-est HLF Presentation Ever</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-22T19:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-22/ackman-has-6-months-left-come-devastating-est-hlf-presentation-ever</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bill Ackman's "most important presentation of his career" is not going so well. The 'Death Blow' expectations Ackman created yesterday (that sent the stock down 13%) have been entirely wiped away as a 2-hour presentation, 100s of slides, and nothing really new sent stocks 16% [23%] higher today... It appears time is running out for Mr. Ackman as his massive put position (bleeding value every day that passes) is set to expire in six months... [2015-01-17]

[HLF = $66.65]]]></description>
<dc:subject>Herbalife Bill_Ackman Pershing_Square hedge_funds</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b5ad4370-fde7-11e3-acf8-00144feab7de.html">
    <title>FT 20140629 - Hedge fund correlation risk alarms investors</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-07T11:42:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b5ad4370-fde7-11e3-acf8-00144feab7de.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hedge funds’ correlation with the equity market has risen back to pre-financial crisis highs, raising fears that the $2.7tn industry could again suffer sharp losses in the event of a market slide.

Data compiled by AQR show the three-year rolling correlation of the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite index, a broad industry measure, with equity markets is at a near-record high of 0.93, comfortably above the highs seen before the financial crisis.

Other industry measures suggest correlations are a little lower, at around 0.84, although this is still well above historic norms.

The hedge fund industry’s correlation with equity markets rose sharply in the two years leading up to the financial crisis, and was widely blamed for the 20 per cent losses suffered in 2008, by far the sector’s worst ever year.]]></description>
<dc:subject>hedge_funds correlation AQR</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-06/utilities-in-pain-selling-renewable-assets-at-record-rate.html">
    <title>Bloomberg 20131106 - Utilities in Pain Selling Renewable Assets at Record Rate</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-05T08:29:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-06/utilities-in-pain-selling-renewable-assets-at-record-rate.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wind farms and solar parks are changing hands at record rates, signaling both an increased taste for the assets among pension funds and hard times for utilities that are the biggest sellers.

Buyers from insurer Aviva Plc to Danish fund PFA Pension A/S are seeking yields averaging about 6 percent on wind and solar. Utilities such as France’s GDF Suez SA, Iberdrola SA of Spain and Dong Energy AS have unloaded plants to build cash cushions as power prices slumped and competition increased from independent generators.

For pension funds, the returns on renewable energy plants beat those for many government bonds and are backed by contracts to sell power at above-market prices. Ten-year government securities in the U.S. and U.K. are yielding about 2.6 percent.

GDF Suez, hurt by lower demand for gas-fired power in Europe, is cutting capacity in the region to contain costs and expanding into fast-growing economies in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The French utility has also sold stakes in energy assets in countries including Portugal and Australia to lower debt. 

RWE AG said in March it will cut renewable-energy investment by half from next year to reduce debt. 

Iberdrola plans to sell 2 billion euros of assets by the end of 2014. Dong in June sold its onshore wind business to PFA Pension and energy company SE.

Iberdrola has already sold 1.1 billion euros of “non-core” assets since the start of 2012, including operating wind farms in France, Germany and Poland.]]></description>
<dc:subject>RES Spain Iberdrola GDF_Suez Dong_Energy Denmark RWE Poland Germany</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527516/a-battery-made-of-iron-could-improve-the-economics-of-solar-and-wind-power/">
    <title>TechReview 20140528 - Novel Battery Could Improve Economics of Wind and Solar | MIT Technology Review</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-31T15:50:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527516/a-battery-made-of-iron-could-improve-the-economics-of-solar-and-wind-power/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><dc:subject>energy_storage RES</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/b:d6905cbac6e0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/12/tech/innovation/big-idea-airborne-wind-turbines/">
    <title>CNN 20140512 - Meet the BAT, an airborne wind turbine</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-13T12:12:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/12/tech/innovation/big-idea-airborne-wind-turbines/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's 35 feet wide, and inventors call it the BAT (buoyant airborne turbine).

It's an unmanned, helium-filled, cylindrical blimp wrapped around three spinning blades that turn wind into electricity.

Can the BAT, which stands for buoyant airborne turbine, help bring life-saving electricity to an estimated 1 billion people in rural areas where power is unavailable?

Altaeros Energies, launched four years ago by a group of MIT grads, hopes so. The young company is competing with Google and other outfits trying to bring the first viable airborne wind turbine to market.

Google's Makani turbine

The Makani Turbine got its name from the Hawaiian word for wind.

This turbine differs from the BAT because it flies more like an airplane. The plane has propellers on its wing and launches from a nearby ground station tower. While tethered to the tower, the Makani continuously circles in a vertical loop while it generates electricity. When it's finished, the Makani flies itself back to the tower.

Development of the Makani started with inflatable fabric kites. But five years ago, engineers switched to a more reliable rigid airframe made from lightweight carbon fiber.

The commercial turbine now under development has the wingspan of an airliner and the weight of a Mini Cooper, and it can withstand the G-forces of a fighter jet.]]></description>
<dc:subject>RES wind_farms USA Altaeros_Energies Google EnerKite PowerShip</dc:subject>
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    <title>treehuger 20140512 - Floating solar power to supply electricity for Singapore</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-13T12:03:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/floating-solar-power-supply-electricity-singapore.html</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Singapore may be the first to implement an actual floating solar farm.

Singapore has unique circumstances that make it a great candidate for early adoption of floating solar panels. It is an extremely dense country (#2 in terms of population density) with limited land and even rooftop space, but it has decent water resources on which to plop some solar panels.

It's Singapore's national water agency, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), that is planning to implement the floating solar power system (aka solar farm). The solar farm will be built on the Tengeh Reservoir and will complement rooftop solar power systems on Choa Chu Kang Waterworks that the PUB is also planning to install. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>RES photovoltaics Singapore</dc:subject>
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    <title>Platts 20140506 - German April solar output up 16% at 3.7 TWh</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-07T07:42:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://notes.pinboard.in/u:mjaniec/ea4d08733bbd1bc4e1d3</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[German solar power output in April was 16% higher year on year and the highest since last August, while wind power output was 7% higher but continued its seasonal decline, according to data from elect...]]></description>
<dc:subject>RES Germany photovoltaics wind_farms</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://notes.pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/IBM-Research/hyref_treinish/">
    <title>IBM Systems Magazine 201403 - Improved Weather Forecasting Could Boost the Efficiency of Renewable Energy Sources</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-03T16:00:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/IBM-Research/hyref_treinish/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Q: What data sources are used to power HyRef?
A: To have a far more precise and accurate weather forecast, you must have good input data, so we’re technically data scavengers. We use whatever data we can get our hands on, including real-time access to weather stations, some of which are operated by a diverse set of government agencies. But some of us have tried to be fairly clever about using data that isn’t ordinarily employed for driving weather forecasts. For example, we’re leveraging data from NASA spacecraft. They give us a lot of detailed information about the earth’s surface—such as temperatures, land use, soil types, terrain details—because characteristics of the surface greatly influence the weather.

There are also company-driven private networks that we partner with for data. Those networks exist to provide current conditions, but we’re using them as input into the model to improve forecasts.

For the HyRef deployment with wind farms in China [part of the world’s largest energy initiative combining wind and solar, which is sponsored by the State Grid Jibei Electricity Power Company Limited, a subsidiary of the State Grid Corporation of China] we introduced a very important innovation. In wind farms, particularly newer wind farms, the turbines themselves will have instrumentation. Some of the instrumentation are engineering sensors telling you what different parts of these complex machines are doing, but they also have meteorological sensors, which aren’t necessarily for forecasting weather. They’re there to monitor the performance of the turbines. One of the reasons these can’t ordinarily be used for forecasting is because these large devices have big, moving components—which are noisy—and any measurements are going to be highly contaminated. And then there’s the issue that the sensors are behind the blades, so the wind is coming in, turning the blades and extracting energy, and you’re not measuring the wind. You’re measuring what’s left of the wind, which isn’t going to tell you about the weather that’s coming into the farm.

So the innovation is to take the collection of data from these sensors in real time plus the number of turbines in a wind farm and then look at how they’re varying in time and in geography in order to remove the noise and the contamination to extract a signal about the incoming wind that drives the turbines. This provides better input into the weather model to potentially improve the forecast of the power.

Q: How quickly are forecast models made available?
A: There’s a computational component associated with this, and it requires a supercomputer to produce forecasts fast enough for them to be useful. If we’re trying to forecast a day ahead of time, we want to produce a forecast in an hour or less.]]></description>
<dc:subject>IBM HyREF RES wind_farms wind_forecasting China SGCC</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518051/better-weather-analysis-could-lead-to-cheaper-renewables/">
    <title>TechReview 20130813 - Better Weather Analysis Could Lead to Cheaper Renewables</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-03T15:33:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518051/better-weather-analysis-could-lead-to-cheaper-renewables/</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If a plant’s operators could more accurately forecast the output of renewable power sources, they’d have less reason to rely on energy storage, which is typically needed now to provide a smooth flow of power into the transmission grid. “In the industry, storage is seen as the next disruptive technology,” says Michael Valocchi, vice president in IBM’s energy and utilities consulting business. “(But) if I can really predict in this manner, it’s not that I don’t need storage, but it makes storage less important.”

Utilities often rely on specialized companies to produce wind and solar forecasts based on weather models and other meteorological data, including anemometers on wind turbines. But wind measurements taken from turbines are often unreliable because energy has already been extracted from the incoming wind, and because vibrations affect readings, says IBM researcher Lloyd Treinish, the chief scientist of IBM’s weather modeling system. For its project in China, IBM analyzed data from all the turbines to come up with a more accurate representation of actual wind speed and direction, he says.

IBM also built a meteorological model specific to this site in northern China and installed video cameras to track the movements of clouds to inform solar forecasts. The entire data set is fed into a supercomputer to generate the forecasts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>RES IBM wind_farms wind_forecasting China HyREF energy_storage</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/9475/ncar-powers-renewable-energy-forecasts">
    <title>NCAR 20130507 - NCAR powers up renewable energy forecasts</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-03T15:26:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/9475/ncar-powers-renewable-energy-forecasts</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), building on a pioneering wind energy forecasting system that saved millions of dollars for Xcel Energy ratepayers in eight states, has entered into a new agreement with the utility for even more sophisticated weather forecasts.

In the next two years, NCAR scientists and engineers will develop custom forecasting systems to predict sudden changes in wind, shut down turbines ahead of potentially damaging icing events, and even predict the amount of energy generated by private solar panels. The systems will be used by Xcel Energy control centers in Denver; Minneapolis; and Amarillo, Texas.

NCAR has entered into a two-year agreement with Xcel Energy to focus on the following areas:

* Forecasting “ramp” events. A new system under development at NCAR can provide utility managers with advance notice of a major change in wind energy over a few hours due to a passing front or another atmospheric event. The system, known as VDRAS (Variational Doppler Radar Analysis System) relies on techniques that combine observations from radars and other tools with computer simulations to create more accurate forecasts for particular wind farms.

* Predicting ice and extreme temperatures. To keep aircraft safe from potentially lethal icing conditions while aloft, NCAR has created state-of-the-art ice forecasting systems that use computer models and specialized algorithms. Applying similar technology, researchers at NCAR and Pennsylvania State University will develop a 48-hour forecasting system at designated wind farms to predict the impacts of freezing rain and fog on wind turbines, which cannot operate when coated in ice. The team also will forecast extreme low and high temperatures, which can cause wind farms to temporarily shut down.

* Generating solar forecasts. Xcel Energy customers who have their own solar panels draw far less energy from the grid while the sun is out, and can even sell excess energy back to the utility. To help Xcel Energy better anticipate when their customers are getting power from their own panels, NCAR will create a solar energy forecasting system, using a combination of computer models and specialized cloud observing tools.]]></description>
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    <title>REW 20130801 - Wind Forecasting with Super-Duper Computer</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-03T15:20:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/08/super-duper-computer-forecasting</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Iberdrola and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), with the collaboration of the National Centre for Renewable Energies (CENER), aim to create an innovative information technology model with the research & development project.

Both the development of the project and its subsequent application will take place in the facilities of BSC, using software run by MareNostrum, one of the top 30 fastest supercomputers in the world.

MareNostrum has 48,896 Intel processors and a calculation capacity of 94.21 Teraflops - a measure of computing speed equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

By more accurately forecasting yields, the Sedar Project (High Resolution Wind Simulation) is expected to pave the way for the construction of wind farms with greater guarantees on investment, its developers say.]]></description>
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    <title>IBM 20130812 - IBM Drives the Future of Renewable Energy with New Wind and Solar Forecasting System</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-03T15:07:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[IBM announced an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. The solution combines weather prediction and analytics to accurately forecast the availability of wind power and solar energy.

The solution, named "Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting" (HyRef) uses weather modeling capabilities, advanced cloud imaging technology and sky-facing cameras to track cloud movements, while sensors on the turbines monitor wind speed, temperature and direction. When combined with analytics technology, the data-assimilation based solution can produce accurate local weather forecasts within a wind farm as far as one month in advance, or in 15-minute increments.

By utilizing local weather forecasts, HyRef can predict the performance of each individual wind turbine and estimate the amount of generated renewable energy. 

State Grid Jibei Electricity Power Company Limited (SG-JBEPC), a subsidiary company of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), is using HyRef to integrate renewable energy into the grid. This initiative led by SG-JBEPC is phase one of the Zhangbei 670MW demonstration project, the world's largest renewable energy initiative that combines wind and solar power, energy storage and transmission. 

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecaster represents advancements in weather modeling technology, stemming from other innovations such as Deep Thunder.  Developed by IBM, Deep Thunder provides high-resolution, micro-forecasts for weather in a region - ranging from a metropolitan area up to an entire state - with calculations as fine as every square kilometer.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_media/9065187630/]]></description>
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    <title>BBC 20140421 - Will the wind in Spain blow slower on the plain?</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-29T19:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27032797</link>
    <dc:creator>mjaniec</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For the first time in Spain's history, wind contributed the same proportion (21%) of electricity as nuclear last year, according to Red Electrica de Espana (REE), Spain's national grid. Both now contribute more than any other power source.

Wind alone generated nearly 54,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity last year, providing power to about 10 million households, and is second only to Germany in terms of installed capacity.

January was another record month for wind power in Spain, and the industry made the most of its installed capacity, with wind energy production reaching 6,626GWh for the first time ever, 3.1% higher than the previous record set last November.

"Spain benefited from wind-energy-friendly regulation in the 1990s," says Sonia Franco, at Asociacion Empresarial Eolica (AEE), the Spanish wind energy association.

"This gave visionary companies the confidence to invest. About 30bn euros (£25bn; $41bn) has been invested in the sector since the first turbine was erected in 1984," she says.

... government subsidies for renewables were not passed on to consumers in the form of higher electricity prices.

This policy contributed to what Spain calls its "tariff deficit" across the entire power generation sector, thought to amount to 25bn to 30bn euros.

"Installation levels in Spain have been declining sharply [since the government withdrew its support]," says Pierre Tardieu, of the Brussels-based European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).

"There used to be 41,000 wind energy jobs in Spain; now there are only 23,000. The politics of this have been really toxic."

The figures speak for themselves. In 2012, Spain installed 1,110 megawatts (MW) of new wind capacity. By the end of last year, this figure had dropped to just 175MW.

Meanwhile United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)  concludes that a sharp fall in the cost of wind turbines and a general improvement in the cost-competitiveness of the sector has enabled a growing number of wind projects globally to be built without any government support at all.

"Lower costs have enabled subsidies for new projects to be reduced, and brought wind and solar much closer to full competitiveness with fossil-fuel alternatives," it states.]]></description>
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