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Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"

#NeuroML supports all stages of the modelling life-cycle with a vast ecosystem of software tools: creating (#pyNeuroML, #neuroConstruct, #NEURON, #NetPyNE, #PyNN, #N2A), validating (pyNeuroML, #OMV, #SciUnit), visualising (pyNeuroML, #OSB, #NeuroML-DB), simulating (#NEURON, #NetPyNE, #Brian, #PyNN, #NEST, #MOOSE, #EDEN), model fitting/optimisation (#NeuroTune, #BluePyOpt, NetPyNE), sharing and reusing of models (OSB, NeuroML-DB, #NeuroMorpho.org). 7/x

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Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"

A number of software tools are available for construction and simulation of models: #NEURON, #NetPyNE, #Brian, #PyNN, #NEST, #MOOSE, #EDEN etc. These have their own features, styles, programming interfaces (APIs). This is great but it also means that researchers need to learn each of these individually to use them. It also means that tools and models developed for one don’t necessarily work for others and need to be manually converted. This is often a non-trivial task and limits model reuse. 3/x

Chuck Darwin

Trump confirmed Friday he stripped security protections from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, the latest in a pattern of retaliation against political adversaries.

🔥Why it matters:
All of Trump's targets have received death threats during a time of heightened political violence.

♦️#Anthony #Fauci

The former NIAID director lost his protection late Thursday night.

Fauci has repeatedly been forthright about death threats against himself and his family. He's now hired his own security detail, per the New York Times.
"You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government," Trump said on Fox News on Friday, when asked about Fauci.
Between the lines: Former President Biden issued a preemptive pardon for Fauci on his last day in office, granting him broad immunity before Trump's term began.

Fauci faced repeated political attacks from Trump and other Republicans over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

♦️#John #Bolton

Trump's former national security adviser has faced death threats from Iran after being a fierce critic of the regime. In 2022 an Iranian national was charged in connection with a plot to assassinate Bolton.

"This is a matter that people should take seriously," Bolton told CNN's Jake Tapper.
Context: Bolton was vocal in his criticism of Trump after working with him during his first term and ahead of his new administration.

"It's certainly a downer for expressing your opposition to Donald Trump," Bolton said on CNN.

♦️#Mike #Pompeo

Trump's former secretary of state, like Bolton, faced threats from Iran, multiple outlets reported.

Pompeo has criticized Trump on fiscal and foreign policy and was not invited to join his second administration. However, Pompeo spent Trump's first week in office celebrating his win, Cabinet confirmations, and early executive orders.

🔸Zoom in: Pompeo's top aide #Brian #Hook also lost his security, per the reports.
axios.com/2025/01/24/trump-fau

Axios · Trump strips security from Fauci, Bolton, Pompeo: TrackerBy April Rubin
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Chuck Darwin

Cheap, smart, deadly. The tech industry pitches a new way to wage war.

Anduril Industries hopes it can transform the U.S. military under the new Trump administration.

It imagines the nation defended by fleets of deadly aerial and undersea drones that can tirelessly patrol the world with minimal need for human intervention, poised to strike if ordered to.

Anduril has deep ties to President Donald Trump’s tech funders and advisers.

It is the most prominent among a raft of defense upstarts aiming to challenge established defense contractors by recasting U.S. military technology around nimble drones and software,
instead of giant ships and expensive aircraft.

“It’s about making much-lower-cost, easy-to-produce and mass-manufacture weapons that we can resupply in a time of war,”
said #Brian #Schimpf, chief executive and co-founder of the eight-year-old company.

That approach is winning support inside the Pentagon as it grapples with a major challenge to U.S. power just inherited by Trump.

It is starkly illustrated by a military operation that took place one night this past April, after Iran fired more than 300 missiles and self-destructing drones at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.

“We are paying millions to shoot down something that costs thousands,”
Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said last month at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.
“We’re on the wrong end of that.”

That asymmetry contributes to another headache for the Defense Department.

War in the Middle East, Russia’s continuing assault on Ukraine, and China’s escalating rhetoric about controlling Taiwan have stretched U.S. weapons stocks and defense industry supply chains,
as the Pentagon supplies allies like Israel in addition to U.S. forces.

If the United States went to war with China, it would run out of long-range precision missiles in less than a week,
according to a 2023 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.

Anduril is headquartered in the former Los Angeles Times printing press a 30-minute drive from the site of the drone demonstration.

Out front sat an open-topped military humvee owned by #Palmer #Luckey,
the most high-profile of the company’s five co-founders.

He previously sold virtual reality start-up Oculus VR to Facebook at the age of 21 for $2 billion
and was for years one of the few prominent Trump supporters among tech elites
-- until Elon Musk and others embraced the former president in 2024.

Anduril, christened for a sword in “The Lord of the Rings” whose Elvish name means “Flame of the West,”
cultivates a culture starkly different from established defense contractors based in Beltway office parks.

The designs of the company’s sensor towers and cruise missiles evoke military hardware seen in Japanese sci-fi anime shows.

In November, the company launched a merch store featuring Hawaiian shirts modeled by Luckey
and keepsakes from exploded prototypes.

The start-up, which has received more than $4 billion in funding,
started out selling surveillance towers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

It now has a lineup of eight aerial and aquatic surveillance and attack drones,
with customers including the Pentagon and some U.S. allies.

Its #Lattice software, used in the drone demonstration, provides a way to link up and control different robots, sensors and other military equipment,
-- a kind of operating system for war.
washingtonpost.com/technology/

The Washington Post · Cheap, smart, deadly. The tech industry pitches a new way to wage war.By Gerrit De Vynck
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Chuck Darwin

#Brian #Evans and #George #Zoley, the two top executives at Geo Group, the
💥private prison company💥,
made contributions directly to Trump’s campaign,
to his super PAC and to other political groups that support him,
and have said they ⚠️ expect Mr. Trump’s re-election to drive up demand for empty beds
at detention centers the company runs for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Mr. Zoley has already profited handsomely from Mr. Trump’s re-election.

This summer, as the election was approaching, he spent over $3 million to buy up large chunks of the company’s own stock,
or a total of 250,000 shares, federal filings show.
The average price he paid for that stock:
$12.28.
As of Friday, that stock was trading at $26.60,
as Geo Group saw the largest surge in its stock price since 2016,
after Mr. Trump was elected to his first term.
The bounce this month alone would generate a $3.6 million profit for Mr. Zoley, if sold at the new price.

The executives told Wall Street analysts during a recent earnings call that 🆘Trump’s election could help Geo Group fill as many as 18,000 empty beds at its facilities,
which would generate as much as $400 million in annual business.

“This is to us an unprecedented opportunity to assist the federal government and the incoming Trump administration toward achieving a much more aggressive immigration policy,” Mr. Evans told the Wall Street analysts.
#immigrant #detention #deportation #privateprisons
nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

The New York Times · Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment: ‘The Shackles Are Off’By Eric Lipton
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Chuck Darwin

Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment:
‘The Shackles Are Off’

Wealthy donors to the president-elect’s campaign anticipate a more business-friendly atmosphere,
including the firing of Biden-era regulators.

🔸Limit the reach of federal regulations on artificial intelligence.
🔸Make room for cryptocurrencies to thrive.
🔸Ease the antitrust crackdown on big tech companies.
🔸Buy more military drones. And don’t raise taxes on billionaires.

The to-do list for President-elect Donald J. Trump from #Marc #Andreessen, the venture capital billionaire from California, is long, but quite specific.

Now, after donating big money to Mr. Trump, Mr. Andreessen is eager to see his candidate work through the list

“It felt like a boot off the throat,” Mr. Andreessen said about Mr. Trump’s victory during a podcast conversation this month with his business partner.
“Every morning I wake up happier than the day before.”

Mr. Andreessen’s excitement is a hint of just how broadly the victory by Mr. Trump has resonated with business executives who ⚠️ invested millions of dollars in his candidacy and now stand to profit from his policies.
Theirs is a circle of deep-pocketed industry winners that extends far beyond #Elon #Musk.
It is a more diverse group, at least in terms of business interests, than the one that surrounded Mr. Trump in his first administration, where executives from the oil, gas and coal industries were particularly dominant.
#Harold #Hamm, the billionaire founder of the Oklahoma-based 💥oil and gas giant Continental Resources, is still in a position to benefit, from regulatory rollbacks that he and an affiliated trade association are already pushing.

But the list also includes:
#Joe #Lonsdale, a defense technology executive who wants to help the Pentagon revamp the way it fights 💥wars;

#Cameron and #Tyler #Winklevoss, the twins who were known for their battle with Facebook, then became 💥cryptocurrency investors and now want to shape the industry’s rules;

#Brian #Evans, the chief executive of Geo Group, the 💥private prison giant that could benefit if Mr. Trump carries out his promise of large-scale deportations;

John Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire who could cash out of his investment in the federal government’s housing finance companies, Freddie and Fannie, if they are privatized under Mr. Trump.

“It will be a billionaires’ ball,” said Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor during the Clinton administration and who has long been critical of the income disparity in the United States.

nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

The New York Times · Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment: ‘The Shackles Are Off’By Eric Lipton
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