Their numbers look pretty dubious to me, or at least deeply theoretical. The W/m^2 numbers are quite high, and the big numbers are predicated on some really deepwater building, something that's expensive, difficult and as yet not exactly well proven yet.

Take for example the recent Seagreen 1A farm, in up to 60m of depth. That's running at under 1/10 the power density of the given numbers.

These numbers:

http://www.inference.org.uk/su...

are a bit more in line with what makes sense to me.

What I don't think for certain is that anyone's going to be raking it in with deepwater turbines in the next few decades.

You misunderstand: I was being a smug neckbeard about Linux.

With that aside: yeah well maybe GNOME. And systemd! Bring on the hate whoop! whoop!

But seriously though the system is in my control. I have a GPU and pytorch installed. I can install an LLM coding bot if I want (I don't). I can use any of the pure local ones, etc etc.

Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and 'Occasionally May Hallucinate'

As a long time Linux user I can't tell if they talking about AI or just regular Windows.

The UK has at least 20x as much wind power available than its current electricity consumption.

Where do you get that figure from? That sounds high, probably like a multiply-total-land-and-sea-area-by-energy-density kind of figure, and then build to the maximum density under optimal conditions.

Note that the Seagreen 1A (deep water) is about 0.1x the power density the power density as the London array (~25m deep). Your figures are I reckon predicated on everything built like the latter.

I think more realistic figures are somewhat smaller than that, though still above our current generation capacity. Maybe comparable to current generation plus automotive.

Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.

Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.

Yeah 100%. As an advancement in ML (or AI, I'm not bothered by the term for reasons I'm happy to explain) it's really impressive. 100% agree it being sold as a prod ready tool is bad, an the hype ad outrageous claims just poison everything.

Because it's not impressive. it's actually quite shit really.

But it's not though and this makes me sad.

Look, come at it from an academic perspective. After years of research into canine linguistics. somebody created the world's most eloquent talking dog. And darn it that dog can paint too. This is really really really cool! Compare what we had 5 or 10 years ago, it's really impressive. A dog! And it can talk! go play with the doggie, it's fun (to be warned it's a bit racist and might bite). Also you know it's a dog. It doesn't have many opinions you can genuinely say are its own. But you know what do you expect from a dog?

It is one hell of an impressive little mutt. Good dog. Have a biscuit.

What I have a real problem is that suddenly a lot of people are raking in a lot of money telling me this dog is actually smarter than people, and an army of talking dogs will replace all human thought and take over the world. Oh and did I mention yet those people are making a lot of money and now influencing national and international policy. And they're putting these dogs into places that matter and they're making a dog's breakfast of it. Etc...

So yeah it makes me sad. It's cool tech in the way many papers are cool tech. AdaBoost was like woah. The Viola Jones face detector was cool and impressive. The first SLAM systems were cool and impressive (you can do that???). Binary features? Whaaaaat. ColMap? Oh Yeah. AlexNet and subsequent advancements were cool and impressive. CLIP loss? Nice! GANs? Oh those are fun, especially cyclegan. Stable diffusion? What fun! Tranformers? Neat-o. Have play! You know that recent one where someone trained a network on minecraft and it made this game so cursed it's actually hilarious and entertaining for a few hours. All this stuff is cool, nerdy fun or at least it should be.

But all this massive fuckery around AI is just such utter shit. This should be (is!) cool fun stuff, especially for those nerds who have been in the field or adjacent to it. The the fuckery pisses me off no end and that poisons the fun.

And that makes me sad.

Dismantling White House, rebuilding in his own image - why not, I kind of like gold.

How about really tacky brass or maybe bronze? Carved by a person!

Yesterday I got down modded for suggesting that the Anti-vax movement while lately embraced by MAGA; is hardly unique to that brand of politics,

No you didn't. Saying "but sure MAGA is the problem" is implying MAGA isn't the problem.

You got modded troll for implying that this brand of stupidity is largely on the other side when it's recently become a major plank of the MAGA movement. Speaking of which it's something of a fringe (not a small enough fringe but a fringe nonetheless) of Democrat voters, but have you noticed that MAGA currently have the 3 branches of the government in their control?

And they've just put a prominent antivaxer in charge of vaccinations.

So yeah MAGA very much is the problem here. Not the only problem with antivax foolishness, but the biggest problem in the room by a long shot as of today.

So yeah that troll mod was 100% fair.

Whaddya mean? States have the god-given right to legislate for any of the positions of the Republican party.

He ran on a smaller government platform.. what he meant was Trump rules.

Yes. The "States rights" rallying cry has only ever meant "States should have the right to enforce right wing ideals beyond what congress can do right now". States rights to ban abortion? Yes! States rights to regulate pollution? Fuck no time for the federal government to step in to crack down on that shit.

Most people cannot make any of the following at home:

Meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc)

Farming is not making in common parlance. And people have been farming livestock at home for thousands of years, clearly it ain't that hard. A few people round my way have a few chickens and I live in London.

Butter

Yeah you can. You can churn it by hand with a whisk and a lot of effort. If you've ever tried to make whipped cream at home with an electric whisk (this is incredibly easy and common) you should know to not over beat it otherwise it starts to separate into butter and buttermilk.

Cheese

I got a cheese making a while ago. There's not much to it, really. People have been making cheese for millennia. Not ultra processed american cheese of course...

Vegetables

You can grow tiny amounts of vegetables as a houseplant what the fuck are you even talking about.

Fruits

My comment about farming not being making in common parlance still stands. And my comment about being able to grow tiny amounts at home as a houseplant still stands.

Flour

Chuck some grains in a coffee grinder or pound them in a pestle and mortar. Job done. It won't be great, uniform flour. But it will be flour.

Spices
Tea
Coffee

Farming ain't making. You can grow some herbs spices at home easily enough. In fact I've been doing that with herbs (like English Mace) which are not widely sold. If you had fruits straight off a coffee tree you could make coffee, it would just be rather involved

Sugar

https://www.instructables.com/...

You didn't just pwn the scientists with your "common sense" that ultra processed foods don't exist because most people don't have a small holding. Farming isn't processing. Most people can do most of those things with a bit of land or labour.

Probably not. My knowledge is probably out of date by now but it used to be the case that the top end processes not only would be wasted on analogue radio stuff, but they'd also need to be adapted to it a well. You want different features.
 

Indeed if you don't accept science into your life you are left as a subsistence farmer who'll premake die before 40 of a preventable disease.

Fortunately for you, accepting it into your life is the default choice and you don't need it in your heart when you visit the hospital, just in the minds of the doctors.

You can of course really walk the walk and go back to leeches and rebalancing the humours. Of course if you do that you should also fuck off off the internet and not be a massive hypocrite benefiting from science while being a moron about it.

Also I would add that most accounts don't need a password.

Any account that has a "reset by email" option doesn't need a password. It's precisely as secure as your email account so they may as well send a one time token link to authenticate.