Sunday, April 28, 2024

As Houthis Cause CO2 Emissions Equivalent To 9 Million Cars, Further East The Taliban Enter Into Climate Talks

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And as our readers are well aware the Taliban's great friend, Osama bin Laden was also very concerned about global warming. First up, fr...

Stanford University’s 2024 AI Index Report: "Measuring trends in AI"

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Although AI has been pursued for over sixty years, it was a 2013 post, " Why Is Machine Learning (CS 229) The Most Popular Course At St...

"How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?"

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 From Quanta Magazine, April 12: By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

"America and Europe Are Equally Poor"

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From Palladium Magazine, April 26: " H oney, don’t worry,” I said, reassuring myself as much as her. “I see a big crowd up ahead. It’l...

Meanwhile, In Shenzhen...

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 ....From Stardust Intelligence via New Atlas, the Astribot S1: The geeks at New Atlas are almost beside themselves with oohs and aahs .

Ukraine: "NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win"

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May 11, 1961 President Kennedy approves sending 400 Special Forces troops and 100 other U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam. On the same...
Friday, April 26, 2024

"Old Macdonald Had a Drone: Inside Farming’s Tech Boom"

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One more post on agriculture. But this one is a few millennia past the neolithic and has drones and machine learning but somehow omits the l...

"The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History"

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From the Milken Institute Review,   O nce upon a time, the corporate motto “THINK,” decreed by IBM’s charismatic autocrat, Thomas J. Watson...

A Wobbly Earth, Climate, And The Invention Of Agriculture (plus the importance of storage)

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The invention/adoption of/ adaptation to agriculture was such a big deal, and the fact that it happened more than once, both tend to imply s...

"Vulcan Energy starts its first lithium chloride production in Germany"

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We've been following this one for a while, some links below. From Reuters, April 10: Lithium supplier Vulcan Energy on Wednesday announ...

"A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation"

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How can we use this knowledge? From Popular Mechanics, April 24: The “Second Law of Infodynamics” could prove it. Many philosophers and sci...

"Republic First Bank Seized By Regulators—First Bank Collapse Of 2024" (FRBK)

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From Forbes via MSN, April 26: Topline Troubled Philadelphia-based regional bank Republic First Bancorp was seized by Pennsylvania regulator...

"Operation Menai Bridge: The plan for King Charles III’s death explained "

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From Page Six, April 25: King Charles III ascended to the throne following the September 2022 death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. ...

"Nvidia Stock Rises. What Microsoft and Google CEOs Said About Its Chips" (plus some NVDA - TSLA history)

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It's good when people with money like what you're selling. From Barron's, April 26: Updated April 26, 2024 9:54 am ET / Original...

Things You Don't See Every Day: The Tree-Climbing Lions Of Uganda

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From the Kampala News: .... MUCH MORE They seem pretty chill.

Treasury Cash Balance Means Fewer Bills-n-Bonds to Be Sold (for now)

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Fewer notes too but they're not alliterative. From the ZH eXtwitter feed: Treasury cash soars by $173BN on April 15 to $897BN, as taxes...

"How China plans to win the global EV war" (plus the IEA’s Global EV Outlook-2024)

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Well, the West had a good run. I suppose we can all become models and influencers now. From The Australian Financial Review, April 25: The B...

"U.S. solar companies, imperiled by price collapse, demand protection"

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It's also a demand problem. Residential rooftop installer SunPower just announced they were laying off one-quarter of their workforce du...

"What Biden Can and Can’t Do After Declaring a Climate Emergency"

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The rumors are once again circulating that the President is planning to issue some sort of Executive Order regarding climate and we happened...

"Huawei Revs Up Intelligent Driving Push With Software Launch"

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Huawei is taking their profits from the phone business and doing a lot of investing in their futuretech. I just wish they had done the lase...