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Whose fault is that

In the black hills?

South Korea, that would be a good idea and it would provide shade. I would bike to work if there was a bike path available and it was shaded. I don't like riding motorcycles in major metro areas, there is not a chance in hell i would ride a bicycle to work if i have to ride on roads.

As powerful as people think oil is, there is TONS more money in big tech and big tech needs energy. Both AI and crytpo are known for their energy consumption. Bitcoin alone uses as much energy as Argentina(citation needed, from memory). If big tech thinks it could fund an alternate energy source there is nothing oil could do to stop them. Microsoft has 80 billion cash onhand, apple 67 billion, etc. There is a reason bill gates is moving into the energy sector.

Rooftop solar is a very viable solution. All those Home depots, walmarts, grocery stores, and walgreens with all that space. Not to mention most single family homes in southern half of US. Battery technology(and electric cars doubling as battery storage) is what we need for solar to take off, and we are getting closer and closer everyday.

Everyone forgets how powerless the oil industry was in 2020 when we were laying off 25% of our workforce and were subject to market whims just like any other industry.

I don't think you understand how many decades fusion is away even with tons more resources.

Wrong design though, he is going sodium which solves a non-existent problem. It can use spent fuel and extend the life of the fuel. But we could just mine/extract more fuel. The downsides are you use sodium metal which is explosive if it ever comes into contact with air. The problem is that 50 years down the road when maintenance may be lacking and there is an earthquake. This design has more risks than a traditional design.

No judgement here, he is living the good life.

Reading my posts in here you would think that I hate this technology, but I am very pro machine learning. I think there are tasks that it will be far better at than people ever could hope to be. I think on the supply chain side it can plan demand and coordinate logistics/inventory better than any human could hope to. There will be lots of jobs eliminated and it won't be the obvious ones.

What they are working on now is just optimizing pattern recognition and then stealing a whole lot of data to be able to have the data so that somewhere it can find the pattern of how people have answered similar questions in the past. LLM's only can generate responses from within the data they have been provided. I read quite about machine learning and AI and from what I read i don't think anyone has started development in earnest on an AGI project. Anyone saying otherwise is just spewing marketing bs.

AGI(artificial general intelligence) is as far off from machine learning as fusion power plants are from fission power plants.

This was the latest incident i read a few days ago, although similar stories of stolen data are non-stop.

There is no artificial intelligence yet, however machine learning has taken off. My brother and a surgeon are working together on an machine learning product that has been deployed to a few different surgical centers. They have not hit the IPO goldmine yet though. It is pretty easy to setup a new machine learning model, the only difficulty the LLM's have is that they need to steal everyones data on the internet. It takes alot of resources to steal that much data.

Rereading my post, I used the term " who knows how many years". Typically when people say that they mean that something is really far off in the future. I am very literal and would have used decades if i thought it was really far off. I think this can be solved in as little as 2-5 years as proof of concept and 10 years to move in production, but if there are unforeseen circumstances it could take longer.

I think we said the same thing.

We have a "northern tool and equipment" which I have never heard of before moving here, but it has everything i need. Growing up in Wyoming it was Murdoch's, which are in Colorado as well i believe.

They discovered that the lithium exists, however there is not a way to extract it economically. With the concentrations that it exists at i am sure there will be many different companies working on this solutions, it would be a way to save an oil company if they were to patent the process. There should be research on this going forward, but who knows how many years it will take to solve. I will confidently say this technology is decades sooner than fusion.

My buddy that I share the boat with helped. We replaced bunks/bunk mounts, hubs, tires, and rewired. Next year the axle and suspension will need replaced.

Pb blaster is good as well.

I rebuilt a salt water boat trailer this winter, and I do not own wd-40. If you ever need to loosen a bolt that has been corroded with salt water wd-40 doesn't do crap, you need kroil and heat.

And I bet you consider yourself an expert on the subject