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Daniel Khent
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#writing, #AI, #bitcoin, #transhumanism, #postscarcity, #solarpunk, #lunarpunk, #ecopsycology

#jazz from #1940s “I’ll Get By (As Long as I Have You)” – Harry James and His Orchestra (Dick Haymes) (1944)

https://thejazzmusic.org/?p=214

The research team at the University's Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering plans to use the rig to tap into geothermal vents below the Earth's surface for an unlimited energy supply.

#geothermal #RenewableEnergy #solarpunk

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/geothermal-drilling-rig-could-change-world

Paris of the East: 5 Cities That Remind Us of the French Capital

#1930s #Shanghai

https://www.thecollector.com/paris-of-the-east-cities/

"What's working from home have to do with the banking crisis? Falling real estate values for office buildings could lead to defaults on loans banks made for the buildings."

#commercialproperty #bankingcrisis

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/06/1174468821/companies-are-defaulting-on-loan-payments-for-unused-office-buildings

We need #utopias. #Solarpunk imagines a green, economically just society emerging from a post-capitalist world.

https://honisoit.com/2023/04/dreaming-through-disaster-why-we-need-utopias/

A ‘Last of Us’-style fungi outbreak could obliterate crops worldwide. The article states that fungal pathogens may not be able to infect humans, but they still threaten to cause a “global health catastrophe.” #fungi #outbreak

https://fortune.com/2023/05/04/last-of-us-fungi-outbreak-could-obliterate-crops/

A massive dust storm caused several vehicle pileups on Interstate 55 south of Springfield, Illinois leaving at least six people dead and dozens of others injured... #storms

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dust-storm-springfield-illinois-pileup-accident-b2330469.html

Large language models (LLMs) can hallucinate due to various factors, ranging from overfitting errors in encoding and decoding to training bias. #LLM #AIEthics

https://www.unite.ai/what-are-llm-hallucinations-causes-ethical-concern-prevention/

HVDC is the new pipeline for energy. It's a more efficient and environmentally friendly way to transport electricity over long distances. #HVDC #renewables #cleanenergy #energytransition

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/21/hvdc-is-the-new-pipeline/

Has there been any discussion about being able to see how many #zaps a person has given?

#nostr #bitcoin #gifteconomy

Yesterday. Trim, #Ireland

I can't wait for this to happen. Plenty of other things to do. #centaur #llm #chatgpt

https://www.wired.com/story/status-work-generative-artificial-intelligence/

Really comprehensive article on women in computing in general, and AI Ethics in specific.

#womeninAIEthics #AI #Ethics

https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416

Video game based on Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible". Robot wars. Written way back in 1964.

#speculativefiction

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-invincible-is-way-more-exciting-now-i-know-it-isnt-a-11-adaptation-of-stanislaw-lems-sci-fi-thriller

“A lot of Silicon Valley companies have secret projects doing analog chips. Because they take so little power." #analogcomputing

https://www.wired.com/story/unbelievable-zombie-comeback-analog-computing/

“Stephen Hawking’s final theorem turns time and causality inside out. In his final years, Stephen Hawking tackled the question of why the universe appears fine-tuned for life.” #nospacetime

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734310-200-stephen-hawkings-final-theorem-turns-time-and-causality-inside-out/

Writing is having its moment with #chatgpt that chess had with Deep Blue. And Chess evolved.

"The [tournament] winner was not ... teams of grandmasters and computers. The winner was a team of 2 amateur chess players and 3 ordinary computers."

#writing

https://medium.com/geekculture/centaurs-are-often-more-powerful-than-computers-549f827130d9