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Renewable energy capacity hit a record high of 1.45 billion kilowatts by mid-December 2023, for the first time exceeding thermal power and representing over half of China’s energy mix, with wind and solar as major drivers. https://shanghaiist.com/chinas-decarbonization-efforts-gain-momentum/
Get your thick coats now. There may be yet another AI winter, and perhaps even a full scale tech winter, just around the corner. And it is going to be cold. Rodney Brooks – https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2024-january-01/ We live on a farm, we love winters coz it kills all the parasites. I love winters, coz that’s when…
I concluded my talk encouraging people to do good things with LLMs but to not believe the conceit that their existence means we are on the verge of Artificial General Intelligence.
Organizational researchers have shown, similar to the 80/20 rule, the majority of your company’s output comes from a minority of “superstar” performers: What’s known as a power-law distribution. https://www.inc-aus.com/jeff-haden/27-years-ago-steve-jobs-said-best-employees-focus-on-content-not-process-workplace-research-shows-he-was-right.html
Render source code in 3D, for macOS and iOS. https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat
The first RISC processor, although it didn’t use that name, was the IBM 801. There is a sense in which people today don’t count it since it was not a microprocessor. That was because it was developed in the 1970s, long before integrated circuits were large enough to fit a whole microprocessor. Don’t forget that…
It’s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent version of Plane Crazy, enter the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024. (An early version of Minnie Mouse is also fortunately included.) There’s still a…
The approach is linked to a political philosophy which champions the idea of pioneering entrepreneurs as figureheads who advance civilisation through sheer individual brilliance and determination. In reality, however, most modern technological building blocks – like car batteries, space rockets, the internet, smart phones, and GPS – emerged from publicly funded research. They were not the inspired work of corporate masters of the universe.…
Aptly named the Adaptable THruster based on Electrospray powered by Nanotechnology, or ATHENA, the compact unit relies on micro and nanotechnology to produce a silicon wafer featuring seven emitter arrays, fitted with a combined total of more than 500 of the tiny emitters that fire a spray of ions that are accelerated by an electrostatic field…
My children are hopelessly addicted to their gaming devices. This is a problem, but not one that I can directly solve because the school mandates that they have both an Android smartphone and a Windows laptop. Rather than to meet the problem head on I figured the better way to address it is to replace consumption with…
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