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  • China will hit 1,200GW wind and solar target this year, IEA says

    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…

  • AI #48: Exponentials in Geometry

    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…

  • RISC-V In An FPGA or Compute a Mandelbrot with a custom instruction

    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,…

  • DIY PLAYSTATION 5 TABLET ALMOST MAKES THE PLAYSTATION PORTAL MOOT

    This guys work is a pleasure to watch. I saw his PS3 video and was hooked.

  • Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

    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…

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and Agroecology: Synergies and Convergences

    Indigenous food systems are systems of production, distribution, and consumption of foods based on Traditional Knowledge and practices of Indigenous Peoples. These systems are characterized by their diversity, sustainability, and resilience, which makes them preferable to conventional industrial food systems. In a webinar organized by the Agroecology Fund (AEF) in November 2023, representatives of Indigenous Peoples and non-governmental organizations…

  • You Should Daily Drive Haiku OS

    I’m kinda excited by this… BeOS was my lusted-after OS in college. I have been watching Haiku development for years. Their progress has been super impressive. For more details: https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/

  • Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Rolls Out X-59 QueSST NASA’s Newest X-Plane

    Lockheed Martin Skunk Works rolled out the X-59 on Jan. 12, 2024, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. The ceremony marked a significant milestone in Lockheed Martin’s and NASA’s decades-long journey to solve one of the most persistent challenges of supersonic flight – the sonic boom.

  • A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest and the revitalization of the Salton Sea

    Casey’s writing on solar power has transformed the way I look at at power related problems… when you realize we have an unlimited amount of power raining from the sky (that we can capture) then it changes the economics of problems. Cheap and power inefficient becomes the play of the day. The advent of cheap…

  • RISC-V Assembler: Arithmetic

    I truely believe that RISC-V is in the process of turning the computing world on it’s head… the combo of open source design and easily grokkable instruction set is a killer combo. I grew up with ARM processors (I had an Acorn 410 as a kid and a BBC B before that), but I do…