Day 1408
A year to forget, or a year to regret?
The New York Times on December 31, ran a 18,500-word article about how Team USA has helped Team Russia prolong its 12-year long genocidal war against Ukraine1. On January 1, 2025, the newspaper ran a 9,800-word article about AI and drone warfare, mostly in Ukraine2. I skimmed both.
I forced myself to listen to Z.
Instead of apologizing, he delivered a pep talk. The president is on top of it and has a piece of the action (Президент усе контролює й має з цього зиск).
Balush says hello. The reason he is looking at me that way is because he wants to warm up on the keyboard. It’s about -13C outside today and our heat is off.
Went for a walk early in the morning.
The Dnipro River looks frozen solid. Didn’t see any ice fishermen.
The thermoelectric stations in the distance appear to be working. That Moscow has been unable to blow them to smithereens is a testament to the incompetence of the Russian military or Ukraine’s air defense, or both.
Re-listened to Judea Pearl Judea Pearl talking about the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks, as well as his theory of casual and counterfactual interference based on structural models.
Very nice!
The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership. As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort (The New York Times, December 30, 2025)
The Dawn of the A.I Drone (The New York Times, December 31, 2025)