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My long-term opinion is that the stock market is more like a milking-machine.

> The amount of space needed is just gargantuan.

Many rural areas have geologically solid, unattractive, inexpensive sites that could host a dozen 50-foot-wide holes 100-200 feet deep. The density of sand or basalt is much higher than water. Such areas would appreciate 100s of MWhs of zero-waste storage ... lasting decades. Easily scaled-up. Much cheaper and durable than effing batteries.

Like Simon and Garfunkle (at their peak at the time), the film was very much a part of its time... 1967. SO much has changed since then, including the uptightness. Without that zeitgeist, that movie loses much of its power.

Not at all close, but this link might give you more to go on (includes more links):

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ai-companies-destroying-ra...

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Panama

I'd like to see more examples of (non-hydro) Gravitational Potential Energy Storage tried out. Very large containers full of sand, for example. If you have no mountains, a deep hole will do.

"Current levelized cost of storage ranges from $150-300 per MWh for established pumped-storage systems, while newer solid-mass gravity systems estimate costs of $200-400 per MWh. These figures are competitive with long-duration storage applications but remain higher than lithium-ion batteries for shorter-duration uses."

https://eureka.patsnap.com/report-gravitational-potential-en...

> being lost to ideological bias.

The currently accepted 'knowledge' framework has been vigorously defended in WP since its beginning. When the label 'pseudoscience' appears in the first few paragraphs, you can usually depend on content highly critical of any threats to the orthodox (if they're even allowed mention).

Academics are more likely to defend the current paradigm. Traditionally, anomalies often go unmentioned in published papers.

All evidence for the existence of meteors was denied for centuries after Newton declared that outer space is empty - until the late 18th century, when ignoring the evidence became too burdensome.

Wihtout getting into the details, I never got a chance to do what I'd wanted to do, professionally, from the time time I was a 5yo until I left for college. It just wasn't in the cards. And I would have been really good at it.

I'm sure there are millions in the world like me. Not too sorry for people who got 5 or 15 or 25 years of opportunity to chase their rainbow.

Neutrinos interact only to the weak interaction and (IF they have rest mass) to gravity. (They have no charge.)

This article has some ideas on such an energy:

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-physicists-route-neutrinos.htm...

It says "typically, energetic neutrinos from active galactic centers are thought to originate from interactions between protons and photons, producing gamma rays of comparable intensity." and suggests other theorized sources.

Another good source on this new branch of astronomy:

https://arxiv.org/html/1501.07798v1

Newer idea (May 2026): blazars

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260523103912.h...

In math, solutions are always significant.

" in February 2023, [KM3NeT] detected the most energetic neutrino ever observed. It's called KM3-230213A, and its estimated energy was 220 PeV (220 x 10^15 electron volts or 220 million billion electron volts) "

- https://phys.org/news/2026-04-energetic-neutrino-primordial....

Good to see & hear Chowning talk about the origins!

The DX-7's lack of patch-cord 'programming' ...replaced by 32 instantly-selectable, well-conceived preset patches in RAM ... was essential in 'democratizing' synthesis. Because it wasn't easy to make new patches, it also jump-started the patch-creation business.

The 16-note polyphony also didn't hurt.

" in 1986, it was used in 40% of the number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100." -- Wikipedia

I enjoyed this lovely rant by Timnit Gebru today. It's titled something like "AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms,"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCB-NQtsKrs

At one point in my graduate college studies, I tutored qualified (DEI) undergrads 'for free' (for them) as part of a work-study program which paid me a bit for that work.

OTOH, an AI could not have qualified as such a student. But even if it did, before we began I would certainly bargain for considerably more than work-study tutoring paid.

The question's not new. In the early 1900s, women could not become PhD astronomers. Yet two women (Payne with stellar composition and Leavitt with cosmic distances) made fundamental, essential contributions to the science. Credit mostly went to male astronomers. The same might be said of Franklin and DNA.

It was nearly a century before the stories of all of them were revealed to public history. That the discoverers were not all equally rewarded is unjustifiable.

>using LLMs without disclosure is A-OK?

'Without disclosure' is about taking credit for work that isn't yours.

WP defines 'ghostwriter' as: "a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author."

Anyone could choose to go through life relying on a reputation manufactured from many lies. They might want to think about how hard that reputation will hit the ground, if it does.

When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.

"Safe, clean, too cheap to meter"

More?

> We Almost Lost Detroit"- Wikipedia

> a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller,[1] presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. ISBN 0883490706

Bril riposte

A thoughtful and detailed history of the early decades of machine 'intelligence' and contemporary reactions - by American historian Jill Lepore

KQED interview with Alexis Madrigal:

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101915026/historian-jill-lepo...

It's indeed very annoying.

I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...

A book of that stature being published cutailed in any way should be carefully avoided by all readers.

The 'Canadian Gutenburg' PD version [0] mentioned in another comment here contains all 16 chapters. ('Star Maker' is also there, as is 'Last Men in London', 'Odd John', and more.

[0] https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200531

Some Einstein quotes (uncited) on the topic of explaining things:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/4399-Albert_Einstein/tag/und...

including (something like) the most usual one:

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."

"the 7'8" tall automaton would start his performance by touching a mace to his head before he proceeded to write out Chinese characters...

"touring Germany when he was somehow lost...

"In 2008, the Osaka Science Museum produced a new Gakutensoku. At 10'6", the new golden-skinned automata...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gakutensoku

--- More on Nishimura & motives: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-short-strange-life-of-the-firs...

This article is the most concise presentation of GP ... and of the conclusion it leads to ... I've seen.

"Opposite statements, G and ~G, can’t both be true in a consistent axiomatic system."

I've stuck with only asking questions that prompt on-topic factual output, I haven't seen much 'humanisation'.

LLMs can be pretty good about logical.technical,discursive output ... apart from the back-patting.

Maybe that prompts less chit-chat crap. I don't expect their non-human perspectives to be interesting. I also ignore embedded queries about why I'm asking, how I might use the information.

The publicly elected can demand respect ... but that generally backfires.

As I recall, 'A Boy and His Dog' was set in Kansas. "Lack Of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure To Obey Authority. The farm, immediately."

> That people say that the fear of war (nuclear or not) is "quaint" means that the wealthy and privileged first world has forgotten about war...

Apart from perceptions, however real they were ... the hundreds of silos and missiles and thosaunds of bombs, whoever built them (names??) made a shit-ton of money (on both sides). 'Defense' spending relies on the manufacture of fears.

There are several legal digital formats (e.g. PSK31, FT8, RTTY) that, while not encrypted, will render 'reading the mail' hard for anyone not aware of those formats and/or the right equipment and where to get it.

Most hams can enjoy the hobby without encryption. The limits discourage uses that endanger the hobby.

> The map couldn't load. This usually means an ad blocker or privacy extension is blocking Google Maps... > Try disabling blockers for cheapfoodmap.com,

Try disabling your goofy expections that I'll spend a minute to learn if your page is worth it.

Gotta spend all those revenues while they're still worth something!