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Comment Re:"Demons and monsters"? (Score 0) 75

So, essentially, this thing was trained on a steady diet of pro-life propaganda and death metal album covers. What a combination.

Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

Comment Re:$10 billion (Score 3, Informative) 190

Brightline is a privately owned company. I think they actually intend for this to be a profitable venture- and hence a profitable investment- based on their experience in Florida. So 'We' who might use that money elsewhere is whoever they find as investors or lenders in this project, not any government.
One would have to do some research to be sure whether or not public funding is involved, but I haven't seen any in the linked article.

Comment Re:~45% Capacity Factor?! (Score 0) 62

Many claim high numbers, but reality is most offshore wind is between 25% and 45%: Source. Check the site every few days and you'll see it bounce around that range. The NREL has some data, showing the mean around 35% or so, but somehow project that to increase to 45% or more over the next few decades. As capacity factor is a function of wind availability, I guess they're expecting it to get windier?

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