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“California Forever” is a pet project of some Silicon Valley billionaires to build “a new walkable city of 50,000 people” on a traunch of agricultural land in Solano County, located in the northeastern region of the San Francisco Bay. While there is no shortage of billionaires in California, water rights (amongst other things) are essential, and these guys…
“Tesla has a product problem,” Bernstein analysts warned, pointing to “an older line-up that does not address enough of the market, and has no new mass market offerings until likely late 2025.” https://fortune.com/2023/12/01/cybertruck-tesla-lineup-staleness-elon-musk-electric-vehicles/
DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis scored an investment from Elon Musk after he pointed out the shortcomings in Musk’s plans to colonize Mars. Musk told Hassabis that he’d hoped humanity could avoid the threats from living on Earth by colonizing Mars, per a story by The New York Times published on Sunday. https://www.businessinsider.com/deepmind-founder-elon-musk-ai-could-destroy-mars-colonies-nyt-2023-12
Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says a national “Call to Action” planned for tomorrow is a response to what he calls a coalition government anchored on anti-Māori sentiment. “We either lie down after 35 years of winning incremental, slow, painful change and then all of a sudden it gets turned over inside of three…
People are scared of AI. At the most plausible and reasonable level, people are scared AI will either take their job or make their work far less valuable. We know, for example, that freelance copywriters and graphic designers are being offered fewer jobs and are paid significantly less when they get one. On the other, more speculative end,…
National, which has traditionally taken a responsible blue-green approach to environmental management, has traded away many of those principles in favour of a radical anti-environment policy programme. The politics of the campaign period are morphing into revenge politics of a Government wanting to undo anything that has happened during the past six years, irrespective of…
New Zealand has picked up the less-than-coveted “fossil of the day” title at this year’s COP28 climate summit. The “award” is given each day at the conference to a country deemed to be “doing the most to achieve the least” or “doing their best to be the worst” in terms of the progress in the climate negotiations…
The most charitable explanation for National’s behaviour over the smokefree legislation is that they have dutifully fulfilled the wishes of the Big Tobacco lobby and then cast around – incompetently, as it turns out – for excuses that might sell this health policy U-turn to the public. The less charitable view is that the government…
Welcome to the walkthrough of the GPT large language model! Here we’ll explore the model nano-gpt, with a mere 85,000 parameters. https://bbycroft.net/llm
“Our team meant to say one outlet… in a town across Northland but we got it wrong. What I’ve said is look, we got that wrong. We’ve spoken to our team about making sure that we are fact-checking all of our information before we go off with statements and actually are they… supported.” https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/503865/christopher-luxon-tells-team-to-fact-check-claims-after-tobacco-outlet-mistake Dear…
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