Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[lenny]

Global Green Up Slows Warming

Scientists say the world would be even warmer if not for a surge in plant growth.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Even Nasa shows globe 15% greener, plants don't lie!

"a phenomenon most obvious in places like China and India where agriculture has intensified".
Yeah, most people like growing and esp eating food.
"Note that the map does not show overall greenness, which is why it does not exactly match heavily forested areas like the Amazon or the Congo Basin."
I.e. it cannot show the volume of vegetation, only its area.
"There is a clear greening trend in boreal and Arctic regions".
So the increased co2 has increased growth and also reduced plants need for water lost during transpiration.

"The Maldives observed significant changes to its top markets since *re-opening of borders on 15 July 2020*."
Err, I thought everywhere was locked down then, due to the "thing"?

Maldives’ tourism looking up after reopening | UN Tourism

www.unwto.org

" the Maldives welcomed a total of 555,494 international tourists in 2020.. 1.5million in 2021.. got 1.6million in 2022.. goal for 2023 is 2million".
Hold on, why isn't it underwater? Oh yeah, the sea didn't rise after all!

An Overview of the Maldives Tourism Industry in 2022

Travel Trade Maldives (TTM) is the leading travel trade business resource for tourism industry developments in Maldives. Travel & Hospitality News

www.traveltrademaldives.com

But we seem to have wandered away from electricity prices, yes?

Global warming might not happen quite as fast as we thought – here’s why

Plants will absorb more carbon dioxide than predicted, meaning models could be overestimating the speed which the planet will heat up

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[lenny]

The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace

Companies are using emotion AI to surveil people at work. But some scientists say detecting emotions with AI is impossible.

www.businessinsider.com

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1727713732359229676

 

[lenny]

50,000 CYCLE BATTERY! 12v Sodium Ion 5.6Ah 25C 140A

PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY. Shipping to Lower 48 USA states only via Fedex Ground Shipping. Note that this item can't ship to PO boxes. No international shipping including Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico. Non-USA customers click here. The battery that can outlive you! 50,000 deep...

jag35.com

 

[lenny]

A new vertical wind turbine concept configured stage over stage adding spin over spin & other portable HAWT/VAWT 3d printed devices

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/459381052/multi-stage-and-generator-wind-turbine-system

 

[saneagle]

50,000 CYCLE BATTERY! 12v Sodium Ion 5.6Ah 25C 140A

PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY. Shipping to Lower 48 USA states only via Fedex Ground Shipping. Note that this item can't ship to PO boxes. No international shipping including Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico. Non-USA customers click here. The battery that can outlive you! 50,000 deep...

jag35.com

I was getting all excited until I figured that a 48v 20Ah one would weigh 45kg instead of 4.5kg.

 

[Woosh]

Based on our latest study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13110, compression seems to be all there is in current AI systems, including GPT-4. The remaining question is: Can compression alone lead to general intelligence or even consciousness? My bet is a clear NO.

I think it's a bit simplistic to equate current AI systems to just a glorified compression. GPT-4, Stable Diffusion and hundreds other AI tools are much more than that. It uses compressed data to build the output but the underlying logic is a lot more akind to how our brains actually work. AI follows the example of newly born babies. Their brains figure out slowly but steadily how to control the mouth, eyes, fingers, arms, legs, voice box etc.
AI progresses similarly, from the current generative stage to interactive to independent robots.
AI can already understand text input, sound and speeches, images.
It can output coherent words, images and robotic movements.
Engineers now teaches it to understand mathematics. Just google OpenAI Q star. It won't be long before AI can solve differential equations.

 

[sjpt]

I think it's a bit simplistic to equate current AI systems to just a glorified compression.

I agree. AI uses some of the same techniques as compression; a model to understand some aspects of the world, and (large scale) statistics to back it up. However, AI applies these techniques in a much more general way then compression does..

 

[lenny]

God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand The Paper On AI Monosemanticity

Inside every AI is a bigger AI, trying to get out

www.astralcodexten.com

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html

AI-MO Prize

XTX Markets is launching a new $10mn challenge fund, the Artificial Intelligence Mathematical Olympiad Prize (AI-MO Prize). The fund intends to spur the development of AI models that can reason mathematically, leading to the creation of a publicly-shared AI model capable of winning a gold medal...

aimoprize.com

 

[lenny]

The artificial glacier growing in the desert

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ice-stupa-sonam-wangchuk/index.html

Mexican ecologists start campaign to save axolotl

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/25/axolotl-mexico-ecology-pollution-campaign

Download all of Wikipedia on your phone

Download all of Wikipedia on your phone and never be without the useful internet ever again.

practicalbetterments.com

 

[saneagle]

With the new more creative and smart tarrifs electricity suppliers are offering, there's a stronger case for a solar system because you can buy electricity when the price is low (night time) and export all your generated power when the price is high. Details here:

 

[lenny]

Air pollution from fossil fuels ‘kills 5 million people a year’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/29/air-pollution-from-fossil-fuels-kills-5-million-people-a-year

 

[MikelBikel]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says

So, to paraphrase it another way..
"If the richest 1% didn't exist, there would be 66% less pollution".
I don't see them volunteering for it anytime soon, haha!
(Joke, humour, etc)

How Bill Gates Bankrolls The Guardian that Claims Not Backed by Billionaires

Beyond the Smoke & Mirrors

geopolitics.co

 

[lenny]

China is battling a wave of respiratory illness in children. Scientists are rushing to find out why
Experts say ‘no evidence’ yet to suggest a new virus is to blame for reports of ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’

Major wave of respiratory illness among children in China leaves scientists guessing

Experts say ‘no evidence’ yet to suggest a new virus is to blame for reports of ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’

www.independent.co.uk

Mysterious White Lung Syndrome Spreads Globally, Cases Reported Worldwide
A new strain of bacterial pneumonia has emerged in China and spread to Denmark, the United States, and the Netherlands.

Mysterious White Lung Syndrome Spreads Globally, Cases Reported Worldwide

A new strain of bacterial pneumonia has emerged in China and spread to Denmark, the United States, and the Netherlands. Children between the ages of 3 and 8 are most vulnerable to this respiratory illness.

www.ndtv.com

Referring to the trillions of dollars in stimulus cheques handed to Americans during lockdown and $4 trillion printed by the US Federal Reserve to buy bonds, he said: “That money is like heroin.

Central bank spending is like ‘heroin’ for households, says Jamie Dimon

JP Morgan boss says US economy is addicted to debt

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[flecc]

The chief executive of the world’s largest bank has compared a $9 trillion wave of cash unleashed during the pandemic to heroin, as he suggested the US economy is addicted to debt...

Almost the whole world is addicted to debt, the first world's financial system cannot run without it setting currency relative values.
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[Peter.Bridge]

Couldn't the blood clots and heart problems (and the ongoing excess deaths ) be a legacy of covid rather than the jabs ?


E.g. https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-poses-higher-risk-for-myocarditis-than-vaccines

Analysis of excess deaths https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-7762(23)00221-1

 

[lenny]

China's neighbours tighten security fearing White Lung is next Covid

There are fears the disease, also called Walking Pneumonia, could become a pandemic

www.walesonline.co.uk

Mystery 'Covid-like' virus in China threatens UK as global experts fear pandemic

As a mysterious virus sweeps through China, its neighbouring countries are beginning to prepare for it to spread. Britain may be able to avoid it this winter, one expert says

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[soundwave]

Infowars Article

Infowars: There's a War on for your Mind!

www.infowars.com

 

[lenny]

Smart meters: Almost three million still not working

Mum-of-11 Sharlene Peppard is one of 2.7 million customers facing incorrect bills.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[flecc]

Smart meters: Almost three million still not working

Mum-of-11 Sharlene Peppard is one of 2.7 million customers facing incorrect bills.

www.bbc.co.uk

The position is far worse, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero are lying to hide the truth, in part by under reporting the total number of meters. Only 57.1% of the smart meters in this country are transmitting readings wirelessly.

And it is going to get far worse.

According to the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, 7 million of the smart meters that have already been installed are about to go dark between now and 2030, during which time 2G and 3G networks are being gradually switched off by the phone networks. It seems many of the existing meters were not made with 5G or even 4G communication modules, since at the time they were too expensive or didn't even exist.

New technologies are being developed, but they of course will need to be installed all over again, no doubt that cost once again falling on the poor consumer.

The whole smart meter scheme has been a confidence trick on the public, falsely persuading them to foot the bill in the name of a non existent efficiency gain. In truth it was solely intended to benefit the electricity companies by saving them the cost of having their army of meter readers, but their widespread failure to transmit readings means they haven't even performed that function sufficiently.
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[saneagle]

China is battling a wave of respiratory illness in children. Scientists are rushing to find out why
Experts say ‘no evidence’ yet to suggest a new virus is to blame for reports of ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’

Major wave of respiratory illness among children in China leaves scientists guessing

Experts say ‘no evidence’ yet to suggest a new virus is to blame for reports of ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’

www.independent.co.uk

Mysterious White Lung Syndrome Spreads Globally, Cases Reported Worldwide
A new strain of bacterial pneumonia has emerged in China and spread to Denmark, the United States, and the Netherlands.

Mysterious White Lung Syndrome Spreads Globally, Cases Reported Worldwide

A new strain of bacterial pneumonia has emerged in China and spread to Denmark, the United States, and the Netherlands. Children between the ages of 3 and 8 are most vulnerable to this respiratory illness.

www.ndtv.com

Referring to the trillions of dollars in stimulus cheques handed to Americans during lockdown and $4 trillion printed by the US Federal Reserve to buy bonds, he said: “That money is like heroin.

Central bank spending is like ‘heroin’ for households, says Jamie Dimon

JP Morgan boss says US economy is addicted to debt

www.telegraph.co.uk

It's vitamins A deficiency, which is very common in Asia due to the type of diet - just the press trying to scare you again.