Co-Founder @Omnifact_AI | solving AI for the public sector | tough love for 🇪🇺/🇩🇪 | agency over conformity
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Joined September 2009
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Patrick Helmig retweeted
Robert Habeck’s (from the Greens) former state secretary Patrick Graichen has acknowledged, according to media reports, that keeping Germany’s last nuclear power plants running beyond 2023 would have provided additional electricity at relatively low marginal costs.
He nevertheless declined to call the nuclear phase-out a mistake, citing the risk of a serious nuclear accident.
Constructivism vs Real World case. Better stick to your own ideology, even at the cost of your country’s industry and people’s future, than ever admitting a mistake.
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Wenn ich seine Biographie richtig lese, dann war unser neuer Generalinspekteur Christian Freuding am 11. September 30 Jahre alt und Kompaniechef bei den Panzeraufklärern (Lehrbataillon). Trotzdem hat er es als Offizier irgendwie geschafft, in zwanzig Jahren Afghanistan-Krieg, die auf diesen Tag des Terrors folgten, kein einziges Mal Soldaten im Feld zu führen. Wenn ich das richtig verstehe, hat er in zwanzig Jahren Krieg die Sicherheit seines Büros kein einziges Mal verlassen, sondern hat sich durch die Etappe getrickst, sich in Hörsäle geflüchtet, Youtube-Videos gemacht und Zuflucht in der politischen Bürokratie des Verteidigungsministeriums gefunden, immer schön Frau Ministerin die Tasche getragen. Meine Einschätzung ist, dass Freuding sich an die Front des Kriegs gegen den Terror nicht getraut hat und dass ihm auf Patrouille zwischen Kundus und Kandahar ganz schön die Muffe gehen würde. Wie kann man auf die Idee kommen, dass dieser Mann der Beste ist, um deutsche Soldaten zu führen? In Afghanistan hat die politisch-militärische Führung Deutschlands die Zukunft des Krieges (Drohnen) verschlafen. Freuding war mit dabei.
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Desinformation:
Generalleutnant Freuding war als
Kompaniechef 2002 beim Einsatzverband der Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Sarajevo, Bosnien und Herzegowina.
Ab 2007 Chef des Stabes beim Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) der ISAF in Kundus, Afghanistan.
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Patrick Helmig retweeted
Each of the 400k particles is a unique, untrained, randomly mutated ~10k param neural net btw 🤗
🔊🦠 Neural-Kimchi-4B 🔊🦠
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Here's some fuel for all the Europoor haters:
Germany just told us we'd have to fire one of our 3 founders to qualify for funding.
I was in talks with a German state-backed fund of fund managing billions, with one single mandate: invest in German funds to drive innovation and economic growth in the country.
They literally told me they like us a lot and are also impressed by our track record and performance so far, and even though not everyone in their team is a fan of our thesis, they believe in it.
But they passed for a whole different reason:
Because our all-male team of 3 people isn't "diverse enough" lol.
they literally told me: hire two more female partners (impossible on the economics of a fund our size), or let one of the three of us go to make room for a quota hire. do that, and they'd strongly consider investing.
I won't even get into how discriminatory this is toward men in the first place. nobody takes that seriously anyway, and honestly I don't care.
but what actually gets me is something bigger: as a German, I have to face the fact that the whole world continuing to laugh at Germany and overall Europe is completely justified.
a system that quietly kills the smallest, hungriest teams, the exact ones this money was created to support. and then everyone acts surprised that talent and capital keep leaving the country.
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Jan Volkenstein ist zurückgetreten.
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"The share of fossil energies in Germany has declined from 80 to 75% since 2000. Costs: ca. 1 trillion EUR, says Prof. Joachim Weimann, chairman of the R21 expert council, at the energy conference. His devastating conclusion: With the energy transition, we have achieved nothing."
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Truth that hurts.
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Somewhat agreed: Rent seeking and capital that is not reinvested/grown are bugs. Capital concentration to great capital allocators is a feature ;)
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Frankfurt Airport, is that really you?
Arrived at the brand new Terminal 3; it's like being transported to a completely different airport. I'm almost in tears inside at how nice it is. Frankfurt used to be a hard avoid because of T1+T2. This might be the best terminal in Europe.
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China already de facto controls critical present & future industries. Like humanoids. They have the technololgical lead & it's almost impossible to reproduce the value chains they established. We can deny or come up with sophisticated solutions to protect our strategic interests.
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Friedrich Merz (@_FriedrichMerz) wants Germany to become a leading AI nation by 2030. People are mocking him.
Honestly, I get why. Parts of his own coalition want an AI tax (he's against it), energy is too expensive, and we have barely any compute, no own chips and no frontier model.
But we have the talent. And defense showed what happens when the state becomes a serious customer and investors follow: Helsing, Quantum Systems, Stark and ARX Robotics are scaling fast.
Do the same for AI and we can build the data centers, the hardware and a European company that competes with ChatGPT, Claude and Grok.
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Are they manufacturing a war here?
Pardon my french, a "special operation"…
We should be very precise about terms in such situations: it is the Polish government (PM Donald Tusk and his team), and we have all seen in the last few days that this is not the same as Poland 🇵🇱
BREAKING:
🇵🇱 Poland launches special operation on the border with Kaliningrad amid Russian sabotage threats
Poland has deployed a high-readiness preventive security operation along its northeastern border following intelligence warnings of imminent Russian-backed sabotage.
The operation reinforces security across the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the border with Kaliningrad and the Podlaskie Voivodeship on the border with Belarus.
Analysts warned that armed groups or operatives could attempt border incursions or orchestrate sabotage operations within Polish territory.
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We keep hearing that hosting open-source models prints money. I ran the numbers on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: H200 can't cover its rent even at 100% utilization, B300 breaks even at ~35%.
Profitable, yes. Simple, no. Curious what others see in production.
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Drama in 2 Akten:
Hallo @grok, erläutere, warum es keinerlei Zusammenhang zwischen Herkunft und Kriminalität in Deutschland gibt. Erkläre es so, dass es auch ein AfD-Wähler versteht.