Yes, very much so. Sometimes it is hard, but the better the rapport you build with the students, the better it works. Talking to them in breaks helps. Showing the occasional weakness helps. If some student know something relevant better than you, let them talk for a few minutes. Of course, some students want the degree, but not do the work (which is really stupid, but it happens) and that is why I have stopped teaching mandatory subjects. If you do not really want to be in my lecture, I do not want you to be there either.

Which figures? Land usage figures? Because that is mostly what he focuses on and he exaggerates the land usage of wind turbines to a fantastical degree, pinning it at 2 Watts per square meter.

He has it at 3 offshore. The London Array runs at about 3.2.

You've given a lot of reasons why he's wrong but the figures disagree. All I did was divide the yearly output buy a year and the land area.

Bu the way, Seagreen 1A is about 0.3 W/m2.

That would be around 107 Watts per square meter

You need to leave space between turbines...

Now, this is primary power, not just electrical usage, to be clear.

Yes, the book is sustainable energy without the hot air, not just sustainable electricity for current usages.

As for technological changes, solar cells have become more efficient and much cheaper.

A bit but insolation has not changed. Mackay quoted 20%,the best rooftop panels are about 25 now. So out of date, but it's not a huge change, either.

An untrained transformer is like a CPU. A trained transformer is like a CPU plus a program (the weights) that run on it.

You could say that the functioning of any computer program is mostly down to the CPU, but while somewhat true, that's a useless statement and fails to understand that it's the program where the logic is.

In the exact same way, saying that the functioning of a trained transformer (LLM) is down to the transformer, is somewhat true, but fails to capture what is really going on in exactly the same way as the CPU example. It's really the program running on the transformer, the weights, that is determining what it does.

I upgraded from a Pixel 5 to 6 a couple years ago due to the unfixable OTA hardware security bug in the 1-5 models.

Some days I'd like more storage but really I can't see what else a newer device would get me. LineageOS 23 is asking me to upgrade to it; I guess I should after the December patches land.

A lot of today's pop acts involve collaborating on the lyrics, sung over backing tracks assembled on a computer using sample loops. What AI music generation brings to the table is you don't need to be wealthy or have industry connections to turn your idea into a song. Of course, without those wealth and industry connections, you're not going to be selling the end result anyway, so making AI songs is mostly just limited in usefulness as something for your own amusement. Also, an AI "band" can't go on tour.

Sure, there's the possibility that companies will pull a Coca-Cola and use AI tools rather than hiring actual artists when they need a jingle or some background music for a TV show, but that's a future that's coming for every job capable of being automated.

What kind of a nonsense posting is that? Stop projecting and read what I actually wrote.

There are so many half-finished and abandoned efforts by Google that I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this one to finally get pushed out. I heard for years that Android was abandoning Linux for their own Zephyr RTOS but alas, it was exiled to the Island of Misfit Toys.

Because they wanted someone with expertise and credibility to explain the issue plainly so that they could be quoted.

This is quite a common thing for new outlets to do and it's confusing why you find it strange.

It's generally hard to get a response from people who write papers like this in a timely manner because everyone is asking them a zillion questions all at once.

I have no idea what you are talking about as I've not argued against any of the points you seem to be trying to make.

True but the issue is the scale of the impact. It's like you're insisting that there be mention of a skinned knee on the the cause of death for someone who died from exsanguination as a result of a missing limb. Skinned knee or not, the person has zero chance of survival.

the law got undercut... multiple times. https://gulfnews.com/your-mone...
looks like the rich bought off enough politicians.

Notice they said absolutely nothing about using it to target keyword ads at you, build profiles about you to target you with ads, and whatever else they're doing with the data to push more bullshit ads on you. The only smart feature is to disable the account and use something else that respects your privacy.

In fairness this has always been called game AI.

Look, it's not just that iOS 26 has bugs. Bugs are fine. All software has bugs.

But iOS 26 is incoherent. It makes the system less intuitive and harder to use. It reneges on design principles laid down in Apple's Human Interface guidelines. I don't even mind how flashy it is--the glass effect really IS cool sometimes. But touch targets are worse, information bleed-through is confusing, and it does the EXACT OPPOSITE of the claimed design intention to show you more of your content. The UI is bigger and more in your way at every turn. You can see less of what you want to see at any given time in a measurable way. (Seriously, people have measured it.)

Try this out: take a screenshot. Go into the screenshot interface. The control to delete the screenshot is under the checkmark, not the X. The X dismisses the screenshot but also deletes it, though it doesn't give any indication that it's going to delete the screenshot. Now if you take a screenshot of THAT screenshot, it adds a second one, fine. But if you go into the checkmark, your option is to delete BOTH. If you tap the X, NOW there's a control to delete just one.

Apple's stuff really did used to be simpler and more usable, based on tested and measurable design principles. Design wasn't just a look, it was also a science that included usability and interaction.

Alan Dye has ruined every interface he's come into contact with. I was on board with the iOS 7 flat-design revolution even with all its flaws, but we're in a whole different, unusable space now. Bring Scott Forestall back.

Meh, this kind of crap is what peer review is for. As long as he learns his lesson I'd be fine with letting him keep going. I mean he's still going to MIT so he's not an idiot.

I mean we all act like he got away with this but he was caught during the initial process of peer review. The system really does work.

We all like to complain about how there's thousands and thousands of papers that are just garbage but here's the thing so what? If the papers aren't doing any harm and they're just sitting out there then it's not a big deal. It's not like we are spending all that much money on any of this crap. I'm sure you can come up with a number that sounds big because we have a 33 trillion dollar economy so yeah you could find somebody who maybe got a grant and did some bad research for a few hundred thousand. But in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal

I mean think about how much money we waste on other crap. Human beings are just wasteful creatures. And we kind of need to be to keep our civilization and economy going anyway.