Common Sense

In honor of Thomas Paine and other Founders & Immigrants. In memory of my daddy Horst Bingel and my mom Irma Bingel

Monday, June 08, 2026

Latest Gallup Survey Shows Support for LGBTQ Issues Slipping

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Good news! For far too long this  human fad, infatuation and obsession with LGBTQ has been going on! Of course, one survey does not make a t...

Armenia PM Pashinyan’s Ruling Party Wins Polls: Early Results

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Good news, I suppose! Elections have consequences! This is not a Radio Yerevan joke anymore! 😊  Armenia PM Pashinyan’s Ruling Party Wins P...

US adds Alibaba, BYD and other Chinese tech champions to military company blacklist

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Serious stuff! How much are these Chinese companies controlled by the communist party of China? "The Pentagon signalled on Monday that ...

Over 8.5 Million Ukrainians refugees Abroad Since 2014

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This is huge! The current population of the Ukraine is estimated at about 39.5 million. In 2014 , Putin the Terrible annexed Crimea and Pres...

Polish-Ukrainian startup develops radar to track elusive, low-flying drones

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Good news! No escaping! "Polish-Ukrainian anti-drone radar company Molfar Defence said it is developing a new generation of tactical r...

France to test its own AI-powered battlefield command in June NATO exercise

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Vive la France! Which country is next! "France will test its artificial intelligence-powered battlefield command system with allies dur...

Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription

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Impressive! Really polyglott! WER = word error rate "... It transcribes a full hour of audio in under 15 seconds . Best-in-class on FLE...

Report on 41 PepsiCo’s driverless trucks on public roads in the US

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Good news! Perhaps, there will be a driverless truck near you soon! 😊 "The on-time arrival performance of PepsiCo’s driverless trucks...

On permanence of private art collections

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Nice advertisement!  Source

President Trump struggled to rein in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strikes on Iran. Really!

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I bet, the news media like here the Wall Street Journal are trying too hard and too much to create the impression of a dispute/disagreement ...

Trump DOJ files to strip Jamaican fraudster, Indian H-1B scammer, Haitian pervert, and 14 others of US citizenship

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Bravo President Trump! For decades,  Americans have been known worldwide to be very generous, lax and lenient when it comes to enforcing th...

On When AI builds itself by Anthropic

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When superstition trumps common sense! Or is this naive, wishful thinking? This recent blog post by Anthropic appears to have stirred up qui...

Hookworms have spent millions of years surviving inside a human host. Really!

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Last time I checked, the earliest humans came about only roughly several hundred thousand years ago! "“The hookworm has spent millions ...

How similar are the protein names of p16INK4a and p16-ARC? Hundreds of scientists were confused in more than 300 papers

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An odd story!  For lay people, these two names are not similar at all, I would presume! Maybe you have to be an egghead to confuse these two...

Chemists design impact-resistant plastics for shoe soles, tires and other products

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Amazing stuff! In my next life I'll become a chemist! 😊  What about more bounce and springiness for soles? "With help from a novel...

English for trippers: A gene, a game

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A genie!

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledges ‘unwavering’ support for North Korea and Kim Jong-un. Really!

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Too bad! The 72 years old Xi Jinping missed a great opportunity to go down in history as a great leader by not suggesting a reunification be...

Disclaimer

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Since end of February, I  am blogging from behind the Great Firewall of China. My Internet service in China is very spotty. Thus, I am not a...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

Nach Auto, Stahl und Energie streichen auch Pharma-Konzerne Investitionen in Deutschland

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Wieder nur ein paar Einzelfälle oder wieder mal nur Medien Hysterie? Nach Auto, Stahl und Energie streichen auch Pharma-Konzerne Investition...

On MetaWorld: Scaling Multi-Agent Video World Model from Single-view Video Data

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This could be an interesting new research paper by Dacheng Tao and his team! From the abstract: " Video world models are a foundation...

English for trippers: A stale state

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Is it stable or a stalemate?

On Edge of Stability Selectively Shapes Learning Across the Data Distribution

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This could be an interesting research paper by Tomaso Poggio and his team! From the abstract: "Existing analyses of the edge of stabil...

Sorry Google Scholar

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This is what I got this morning when I tried to look up a preeminent ML & AI researcher Quoc V. Le) on Google Scholar from behind the Gr...

On LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks

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Google with Quoc V Le and hist team is bringing mathematics into the age of AI! Expect a lot of progress regarding mathematics in coming ye...

A Supreme Court Judge Branded India’s Youth as ‘Cockroaches’—and Unleashed a Political Movement

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Sometimes words have consequences! "The chief justice of India’s Supreme Court at a May hearing referred to many young people as “ coc...
Saturday, June 06, 2026

David Barnea shares Mossad role in Nasrallah assassination, Iran war details

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Don't mess with Mossad at your own peril! "On Tuesday, David Barnea completed his astounding five-year term as Mossad chief . Duri...

Chinese Sodium-ion batteries could become a low-cost rival to Tesla's batteries

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Good news! We need more cheap and better batteries! Hina from China! I also just blogged here in German about this story! "A popular s...

Houston fiercest, most fabulous drag queens

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Showtime in Houston! Texas, more than longhorns, cowboys, and crude oil! 😊 Houston, we have a problem ! Drag queens everywhere! Just kiddin...

New propulsion system could make tiny satellites both fast and fuel-efficient

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Amazing stuff! "MIT engineers are testing a new propulsion system that combines the power and speed of conventional chemical thrusters ...

On Graph Neural Networks Are Not Continuous Across Graph Resolutions

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This could be an interesting, new paper by Michael Bronstein and his team! Caveat: I did not read the paper. From the abstract: "We sh...

'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence to provide broad protection from thousands of variants of viruses

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Amazing stuff! "Artificial intelligence has been used to develop a "fundamentally new" type of vaccine that could protect ag...

On Using Reward Uncertainty to Induce Diverse Behaviour in Reinforcement Learning

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This could be an interesting paper by Doina Precup and his team! From the abstract: "Classical reinforcement learning (RL) typically s...

Google annoyances again

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Just tried to look up Doina Precup (a well known machine learning and AI researcher) on Google Scholar. Here is what I got:  Working from b...

Satellite maps of sinking coastlines are contradictory and come under scrutiny

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When scientists believe in the global warming/climate change hoax, their impartiality is seriously affected! Also called confirmation bias !...

On No More K-means: Single-Stage Sparse Coding for Efficient Multi-Vector Retrieval

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This could be an interesting paper by Stefanie Jegelka and her team! Caveat: I did not read the paper. From the abstract: " Multi-vect...

Surprisingly intelligent bumble bees

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Amazing stuff! "In a new study bumble bees solved a completely novel object-manipulation task . What makes this behaviour especially re...
Friday, June 05, 2026

UK Prime Minister kneels for a lifelong, petty criminal and drug addict who tried to fake an emergency before arrest. Really!

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Incredible! What a fool and idiot! Appalling! God save the UK! UK quo vadis! Thatcher and Churchill are spinning in their graves! Credits:  ...

Zelensky Issues Open Letter to Putin the Terrible: ‘Enough War – Let’s Meet to End It’

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Good news! Worth a try after so many years and so many war casualties! Don't expect Putin the Terrible to become an angel of peace! ...

Akku für E-Auto & Co.: Natrium statt Lithium? RWTH Aachen testet Chinesische Batterie

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Hat man nicht vor früher China der Industriespionage bezichtigt? P.S. Ich konnte leider keine anderen Artikel dazu finden (inkl. RWTH Aachen...

Typische Männer- und Frauenberufe. Wirklich!

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Gleichberechtigung hat nichts mit Gleichverteilung zu tun! Was ist daran auszusetzen? Im Laufe der Zeit (innerhalb der letzten Jahrzehnten) ...

With over 1600 signatories, mathematicians issue a declaration warning of AI. Really!

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I bet, some mathematicians were also complaining when the Abacus was introduced more than 4,000 years ago! 😊 Same old story! Of course, mac...

Brazil plans to buy 20 more Swedish Gripen fighter aircraft

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Good news for Sweden and the European defense industry! "Brazilian Defense Minister José Múcio Monteiro Filho announced today that he w...

Habits form far faster than science previously thought, research shows

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Amazing stuff! As they say we are creatures of habit! 😊 I remember, there were rumors and remarks decades ago that it takes only one cigare...
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