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Stan is going to be grimly prescient. As climate change intensifies scarcity and conflict over resources, it displaces people and spreads disease. In Syria, extreme drought has forced more than 1.5 million farmers to move to overcrowded cities. Water shortages and degraded land have exacerbated existing government rights abuses and civil unrest. With over 12 million displaced Syrians,…
Why do I get the feeling that the first words we translate aren’t going to be “welcome fellow travellers”? US Berkeley researchers used artificial intelligence to determine that some of the clicks used by whales to communicate are “on many levels analogous to human vowels and dipthongs,” the sound of two vowels in a single…
Obviously I am revelling in a big dose of Schadenfreude… but equally as importantly it is a classic example of how LLMs are not the harbingers of AI doom. First off, let’s talk about your obsession with X. It’s like you’re trying to compensate for something, but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s your inability…
Elite is the game that got me into computing…
If any of you reading this happens to be a family member of a multi-billion dollar dynasty, I have great news — you are much richer than you were last year! A new report from Bloomberg states that the wealth of global dynasties increased by 43% in the last year.
There’s a new chip on the block, named the CH32V003. I’ll admit the name is a bit of a mouthful, I’ve idly been referring to it as “the chirty two” or “the double-oh three” but don’t let the unassuming name fool you, this chip is grand. It’s a self-contained microcontroller with a 48MHz RISC-V core…
The brains of this festive little tree is an ATmega328P, which you probably recognize as the microcontroller that powers the Arduino Uno. Although this circuit has none of the extra bits you’d find on an Uno, not even a crystal oscillator, it can still be programmed with Arduino and use the 8 MHz internal clock.
Ford and Resideo, a Honeywell Home thermostat brand, recently announced the EV-Home Power Partnership. It’s still in the testing phases, but it could help make EVs a more optimal purchase. Put simply, you could charge your EV when it’s cheap, and when temperatures or demand make grid power time-of-use expensive (or pulled from less renewable sources),…
Welcome to Edition 6.22 of the Rocket Report! We’re nearing the end of 2023, and it’s been an incredible year for rocket debuts. Early in the year we saw small lift vehicles from Relativity Space and ABL, and in the spring Japan’s H3 and SpaceX’s Starship rocket. There’s one big one left: United Launch Alliance’s…
Welcome to the trough of disillusionment people… In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI COO and CEO Sam Altman’s right-hand man Brad Lightcap said that certain aspects of AI are “overhyped,” especially when it comes to the sky-high expectations of the company’s enterprise AI customers. “And there’s almost never a silver bullet answer there — there’s never one…
This is really exciting to see. I really want to understand the lifetime numbers as Perovskite is traditionally short lived (super efficient, but nowhere near as stable as silicon). Located in the Kubuqi Desert, the project spans 40 mu (2.6 hectares) and has an installed capacity of one megawatt with 11,200 perovskite photovoltaic modules. https://shanghaiist.com/perovskite-solar-project-in-inner-mongolia-connected-to-grid/
No one is surprised Artificial intelligence-powered drive-thru company Presto Automation described itself as “one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry,” and boasted its ability to increase sales and “save” human labor time. But according to recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, off-site human workers are stepping in and completing over 70 percent…
The conflation of anti-zionism with antisemitism only serves antisemites (and those who benefit from antisemitism). Conflating the two means that the energy minima here becomes antisemitism. You literally set up a slippery slope of hate. I’ve seen this on the left many times already. I was having coffee with an well known left NZ politician…
Sorry Alan… but imma gonna have to use the ‘bullshit tech’ tag for this one… Google has a lot to prove with its AI efforts — but it can’t seem to stop tripping over its own feet. Earlier this week, the tech giant announced Gemini, its most capable AI model to date, to much fanfare. In one…
One of the thoughts that I had after managing crippling anxiety, last year, was that the mental state of anxiety felt the same as the mental state of chronic pain. It’s that “playing with a cavity with your tongue” thing… where you crossed the same mental area again and again. Seems there was something in…
Good riddance. Self-checkouts are one of those consensual illusions that supermarket chains got suckered into. It never delivered on reducing shrink and, in the US, was generally a good way of getting yourself into trouble. Very customer hostile.
Profiteering has played a significant role in boosting inflation during 2022, according to a report that calls for a global corporation tax to curb excess profits. Analysis of the financial accounts of many of the UK’s biggest businesses found that profits far outpaced increases in costs, helping to push up inflation last year to levels…
Enceladus is blasting water into space from the jets at its southern pole. This makes it the ideal place to send a dedicated mission, flying the spacecraft through the plumes with life-detection instruments s. A new study suggests that a spacecraft must proceed carefully through the plumes, keeping its speed below 4.2 km/second (2,236 miles…
I’m a big fan of how Giridharadas articulates thoughts around movements. Step away from the Trump specific stuff and listen to what he has to say about building movements and the narratives the need to present: This holds true for the left every where right now.
A single individual living in Greenville, North Carolina defeats enormous global businesses with tens of thousands of employees and decades of experience—and does it repeatedly every month. But that’s exactly what’s happening. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/in-2024-the-tension-between-macroculture
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