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China will have 1,200 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind and solar energy capacity by the end of 2024 — a full six years earlier than the government had targeted, according to the International Energy Agency’s estimates. Why it matters: The IEA says the unrivalled renewables boom underway in the world’s second-largest economy has increased the chances…
The biggest event of the week was the Sleeper Agents paper from Anthropic. I expect that to inform our thoughts for a while to come, and to lay foundation for additional work. We also had the first third of the IMO solved at almost gold metal level by DeepMind, discovering that math competition geometry is…
My alarms went off big time when Apple presented the Vision Pro on stage. It all had the whiff of we-have-money-to-fake-passion. What ever you think of Jobs, the moment he walked on stage with a product… You. Just. Knew. You buckled in and you opened your wallet. Tim Cook is the master of supply chain…
Note for my own weekend watching…
This makes me borderline giddy… I fucking love it! Here’s a project that demonstrates the advantage of having an opensource instruction set (RISC-V) along with the power of being able to wire an FPGA into one. This project implements a minimal RISC-V core in an iceFUN FPGA board. While having a license-free instruction set is nice,…
We are living in the age of the monopoly. In the 1930s, the top 0.1% of US companies accounted for less than half of America’s GDP. Today, it’s 90%. And it’s accelerating, with global mergers climbing from 2,676 in 1985 to 62,000 in 2021. Monopoly’s cheerleaders claim that these numbers vindicate them. Monopolies are so efficient that everyone…
Building a bridge between now and later is often a challenge when we seek to rewire our tech. The internet only arrived because DARPA and others kept it going for more than twenty years before it clicked. Refocusing on the ‘we’ is a powerful way for us to get from here to there.
This guys work is a pleasure to watch. I saw his PS3 video and was hooked.
Nature always bats last… On a really bright front, if AI/ML drives innovation in power generation, I’m there for that. It’s no secret that AI models like those behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT require an astronomical amount of electricity. The process is ludicrously energy intensive, with experts estimating that the industry could soon suck up as much electricity as an…
When your enemy dupes you into compounding your mistakes, without achieving your military objectives, he is leading you into an escalation of force which will defeat you, sooner or later. Later is more costly, defeat more ruinous, so the Arab-Iranian alliance against Israel and the US is waging the long war they were never before…
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