We knew that AI was going to derail efforts to get tech companies to net zero on their carbon footprint. But it's also decreasing the quality of power by introducing harmonic distortion in the AC current. This could cause problems for some older appliances. Proximity to data centers is a major factor, and this is important since Hillsboro is going to be site of at least one data center.
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Mathematician Reveals Strange New Enigmas for Time Travelers. Apparently if you are able to travel back in time, your memories will be erased when you return to the present. A lot of the predictions about what will happen with time travel seems like speculation.
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Geoffrey Hinton ups his prediction that AI will render humanity extinct in the next thirty years. I personally don't think so. We're already seeing some degradation of AI quality. Google has inadvertently revealed some progress with Jarvis, its next LLM model. They've done poor jobs lately that I'm not that excited about what they've done. Gemini has been a disappointment.
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But there is an AI song maker. I haven't given it a whirl, but I think this will be good mainly for making political short videos by the meme makers. Nothing likely to generate catchy tunes that make the top 100, but at least you own the rights.
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A new federal report shows that Oregon's homelessness rate increased by 18% compared with the year before. It's interesting when you compare Vermont and New Hampshire, virtually the same region of the U.S. Vermont has a relatively low homelessness rate compared with Oregon, but NH is doing much better per capita, and the contrast is conspicuous especially compared with New York, Connecticut, and Maine.
