Wyoming is going to allow construction of a datacenter that will use more energy than every home in the entire state combined. Had to read that twice. Is that reasonable? Maybe they can use that as a heat source? Crazy.
And we don't have enough transformers to support all this. It's a huge vulnerability.
Raising better children isn't a problem that is solved just by throwing more money at it. The rest of us shouldn't be paying for this either.After four years of payments, children whose parents received $333 a month from the experiment fared no better than similar children without that help, the study found. They were no more likely to develop language skills, avoid behavioral problems or developmental delays, demonstrate executive function or exhibit brain activity associated with cognitive development.
This is why people really need to know about the tools they use. All the questions about ask ChatGPT for legal advice about a crime you committed is legally discoverable. What did people think ChatGPT was? Everything you type in when you sign in with account username and password can be associated to you. Google works that way, too, for those who have an account.
Interesting. Chase may take over for Goldman Sachs on issuing Apple's credit card. Goldman had reported losing a billion dollars on this card in 2023, and has been looking for someone to take if off their hands.
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Now, researchers are creating "virtual scientists". Well, AI can output something. Doesn't mean that it's good. It's a new working paradigm. Let's see how well it does. Let 'er cook.
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Microsoft reveals a list of 40 jobs that they predict will be lost to AI. In actuality, the list is of those who use AI in their work. It's not clear to me that some of those jobs will actually be lost to AI. Such as mathematician. Or radio DJs. Even fashion models – sure AI can generate some good-looking specimens, but they all give the same AI-generated vibe.
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MIT just proved Einstein wrong. Well, you don't see that statement too often. It was just a wager that Einstein made with Bohr about wave interference.
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Norway has a problem in that it is too rich. Nice problem to have. But they like to tax heavily and spend heavily and give out lavish welfare payments, giving rise to "creeping concerns that Norway is becoming bloated, unproductive and unhealthy". They created a sovereign wealth fund, which had really paid off. Trump is trying to do the same thing.
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Amazon let the public modify some of their production code. One idiot put a "delete everything" directive into a pull request, which got accepted. Now people have seen their data wiped out. Never trust the public. There's just too many assholes out there.
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In the Bay Area, any dumb idea can be a start up. Investors put in $650 million into this company. Now it's bankrupt. Who would have guessed?
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South Korean scientists make quantum tunneling occur on demand. Now it's no longer a thing of wonder. Well, it still is, but now less so.
"There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once." -- John Donne, LXXX Sermons
Hertz's new AI-powered damage scanner is turning out to be fiasco. People are upset. It is for this reason that I'm using Avis in a few weeks. I don't want to be hassled by this.
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Middle schools in Portland's school district don't have to worry about being graded anymore. I guess the district didn't like seeing all those low scores. Problem solved now!
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Kevin Dahlgren shows that people living on sidewalks and parks just prefer to live there. But they like taking your money anyway. What a racket this homeless industrial complex has been. Problems are NOT solved. Just allowed to continue.
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In 2022, Oregon used to be the #2 destination for outsiders. People were bragging about it. In 2025, Oregon is 7th from the bottom. Way to go, Tina Kotek.
Multnomah County lags the state in job growth. Way to go, Jessica Vega-Pederson.