They're making fun of us. Oregonian's willing to trade the ability to control their own thermostats for a measly $25. Yeah, how's that working out? Really smart people are asking why they don't tell people not to charge their EVs as much instead. Because that would make too much sense. Because EV cars never made much sense to me.
Meanwhile, datacenters are sprouting in the Pacific NW, and that threatens the power grid, too. Here's a tip: you don't want to live too close to a datacenter.
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Joke's not funny anymore. A California man got NULL for a license plate. His wife got VOID, so they'd be NULL and VOID, get it? Well, the joke got old fast.
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This investor thinks a lot AI is just hype. I agree – a lot of it is opportunistic hype. But not all. Meanwhile, the AI candidate that was aimed to be mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has had its OpenAI connection severed. Oh well, there's always local models and RAG.
Oregonians are wary of AI, but aren't really sure what the dangers are. And many feel that politicians should regulate it. Yeah, sure. I think that the best people to regulate AI are those in AI masters programs. They know enough about the technology to be able to judge what it can and cannot do, and they don't have investments or conflicts of interest that would prevent them from doing the right thing. Everyone else might be compromised because they have their fingers in some pie. But politicians? No. Andrew Ng agrees.
WWeek has an article on the Grants Pass vs Johnson ruling, and that the ball is back in Oregon's court. And that Tina Kotek was the sponsor of HB3115 which is keeping Oregon cities from getting rid of those tents and RVs on the streets. What is Tina doing? Besides still trying to her spouse on the payroll? Meanwhile another downtown homeless fire. Seattle, too.
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Idiots in charge. Being on time is a white supremacy value. So says the dean of Duke Medical School.
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This report is making the round on social media. Kids that got the COVID-19 vax product are more likely to die. Not just a little. A lot.
Shouldn't we at least pause the vaccine until we know for sure that this can explained away like Reuters thinks?For COVID and non-COVID deaths combined, the rate was 6.39 per 100,000 PY among unvaccinated children and 289.02 per 100,000 PY for triple-vaccinated children.
Also good. GLP-1 receptor agonists may also be effective in suppressing addictive behavior.
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What's really going on inside those LLMs? We still don't know, but here's a discussion about diving into the problem and finding out.
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A lot of thought goes into designing climbing ropes. Don't use the one designed for glaciers when rock climbing. See, I learned something.
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