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The Wellington agency is more than three times the size of the Productivity Commission it replaced, hiring 91 staff. That’s despite ACT, and coalition partner National, campaigning to reduce the public sector wage bill, make 15,000 public servants redundant and slash “wasteful spending” in the sector. The anti-red tape ministry was a flagship policy for [David] Seymour…
Thanks in part to the IRA, US greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 will likely be between 32% and 34% lower than they were in 2005, according to the REPEAT project, which is led by Princeton University’s ZERO Lab. By 2035, the reduction will have reached 40%-43%. https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/20/how-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-transforming-america-and-the-world/ One of the things I love about how…
After teasing the electric supercar’s sleek design, dance moves, and other fun features, BYD launched the Yangwang U9 in February. Starting at around $233,000 (1,680,000 yuan), the U9 is priced at a hefty premium compared to most low-cost BYD models starting at around $10,000 to $25,000. https://electrek.co/2024/08/19/byd-chinas-supercars-get-serious-new-1200-hp-ev/
Intelligence is a multiplier for judgment, but if you have bad judgment, intelligence makes you more likely to get the wrong answer. Intelligence is jet fuel for foolishness.
In the first seven months of 2024, the US got more electricity from wind and solar than from coal — a historic inflection point in the world’s largest economy. https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/19/wind-and-solar-overtake-coal-power-in-the-us-for-good/
One way to explain this is to realise that LLMs don’t learn about relationships between facts, but between tokens, the linguistic forms that Bender described. The tokens “Tom Cruise’s mother” are linked to the tokens “Mary Lee Pfeiffer”, but the reverse is not necessarily true. The model isn’t reasoning, it’s playing with words, and the fact…
I knew it was good… but I had no idea: How much antimatter is needed to heat 1 T of H2 from cryogenic liquid to 4000 K? About 300 micrograms. 1200 T of H2 requires 360 milligrams of antimatter. If that antimatter is cryogenically frozen solid antihydrogen, it occupies about 4 mL. Somewhat less than…
… and I thought I hated the guy. I’m way too polite. He. Gets. Dragged. Holy hell the Devil himself. This is a man who gives zero fucks about people. Doesn’t care for democracy. Really believes the ultra rich should rule society to how they see fit. The word fascist is thrown around a lot…
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