Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

From the Yahoo article:

...and of course it's in beta to a limited number of users right now.

No, I wouldn't think of getting on the highway without fastening my seat belt. I sometimes, very slowly, navigate a parking lot at McDonald's because I'm just driving to the trash can to deposit my drive-thru bag for the food I received, and am going to get out of the car within the next 150 feet. Otherwise, seat belt every time. Its air bags I object to having to pay for. Have never been in a situation where they would have been an advantage, and that includes 62 years of driving.

Also, folks seem to drive into deep water completely without the help of a map of any sort.

Yeah, other cars also have rear windows that are absent or useless, like the 1963 Corvette "Split Window" coupe that also could not be used as emergency egress. But there's no reason to be planning more such cars. And rear-view cameras and displays are a good thing, but they don't have to replace the rear window completely.

You just drove into a lake. The car is going down nose-first. The bystanders would like to rescue you, but that rear access that is still above water for the moment is not available.

...to the benefit of the American people.

The FairTax is essentially a luxury tax on new goods and services sold at retail.

The poor pay $0 FairTax.

The FairTax completely abolishes ALL the income taxes - personal, payroll, corporate, capital gains, self-employment, gift, alternative minimum, estate, all of them.

Prices of American-made good fall by 18% - 22% due to being free of the income taxes during their manufacture.

Prices of foreign goods do not fall at all.

The FairTax exclusive rate of 30% is applied to both the domestic manufactured products and the foreign manufactured products.

The domestic product ends up at about the same price as it was before. The foreign product ends up about 30% higher.

The world's business executives injure themselves in a stampede to build factories in the tax-free USA.

Much higher paying factory jobs raise the wages of Americans dramatically, while the burger restaurants and big box retailers raise wages just to pry some help off the factory floor.

The much richer American people happily become bauble-buyers of more expensive things, accelerating the collection of the FairTax.

The FairTax raises revenue to be able to nuke the deficit, then begins to pay down the debt.

And that's the ONLY way I can see that the debt ever has a chance to be paid, since there's nothing that we can similarly cut to balance the budget without killing a lot of folks. Medicare and Social Security cuts would kill a lot of folks, and they're the only things that cost enough to nuke the deficit.

Someone did an AI live action recreation of Johnny Quest, and it looks totally cool.

That's sorta' the reverse of the current article - instead of taking a no longer available actor and recreating him, they're making an actor (who never existed) from scratch to play the part of a cartoon character.

Just saw the trailer and...

I have no idea what the movie is about, whether it looks good, or whether I want to see it.

It reads "some stories were too hidden to be found" (and wtf does that mean? And the story was too hidden to be found but you're making a movie of it?), and it's based on a real story.

And a bunch of seemingly disconnected action shots.

Hard pass. I'll stream it if the reviews are any good.

(And yeah, it was a fun degree. Just a BA :) Decided to go back to school for a second degree on a topic that had long been of interest to me)

DNN-based, like nearly all modern AI. Not Transformers, as far as I'm aware.

Explain how this doesn't count as reasoning. Or this. To name just a couple examples.

Yes, they work by fuzzy logical reasoning. That is literally how neural networks, including the FFNs in Transformers, work. Every neuron is a fuzzy classifier that divides a superposition of questions formed by its input field by a fuzzy hyperplane, "answering" the superposition with an answer ranging from yes to no to anything in-between. Since the answers to each layer form the inputs to the next layer, the effective questions form grow with increasing complexity as network depth grows. Transformers works by combining DNNs with latent states (works on processing concepts, not raw data, with each FFN detecting concepts in their input and encoding resultant concepts into their output) and an attention mechanism (the FFNs of a given layer can choose what information they "want to look at" in the next FFN).

In Michigan's upper Peninsula, one out to build their data center in a waterproof tube, submerge it in lake Superior, and never worry about cooling it again.