Two interesting articles on EVs:
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- Why Your EV Won’t Fill Up In Five. There are good reasons why won't be seeing those EVs that recharge in 5 minutes and go for 1800 miles on a single charge, anytime soon. Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? Well it would take 7.2 megawatts—per car to charge that fast. Using monster cables. Want to live next door to someone who has that installed. Better move your house to the far side of your lot.
- Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car. The Chinese have an EV called the BYD. It only exists because of generous government subsidies. Supposedly it's better than Tesla, in that it can "rotate 360 degrees in place and operate in water like a boat over short distances". It can charge in 5 minutes (but what's its range?). And it sells for $10,000. I still don't trust Chinese engineering.
Intel CEO says it's too late to compete in AI, as the company continues to shed staff. What a metaphor for the city of Portland. I wouldn't have believed in 2000 that this would the state of Intel. Then I read this. Wow, Pat Gelsinger was basically unavailable every Thursday so he could space out on company time.
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So now vector search is passé? It was the darling of AI a couple of years ago. But similar ≠ relevant, and relevant is what really matters. So we're back to lexical search. Man, things change so fast.
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StackOverflow is unveiling their new self. Will it bring people back again? Well, maybe the AI bots will have new things to scrape.
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Tech workers really want to work from home. They're willing to take lower pay to make it happen. But those jobs that can be done at home as likely the ones that someone else can do with AI. One person is convinced that AI will take people's jobs after all, and we'll just become project managers, overseeing someone else's work. It's a new paradigm.
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Big Pink's new buyer wants to spiff up the place and attract people to come back to the building. What he doesn't realize that it's not the interior decoration that people didn't like. It was that it was in the middle of downtown Portland, and you have to negotiate the city streets to get there. Good luck, man.
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What a waste. Why did the city of Portland need a Chief Equity Officer? Now there's money the city can save by cutting it.
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