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Comment Re:As a former officer... (Score 2) 125

Trump's military parade in DC had multiple sponsors who received public credit during the show.
Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Coinbase and Amazon have recently donated to America250, the nonprofit raising funds for the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary, the organization said. (Also some energy drink)
We have the finest government (and military) that the oligarchs can buy.

Comment Utilities would rather build new lines (Score 1) 81

Part of the problem is that utilities can make lots of profit by building a new transmission line. They are guaranteed a 10%+ rate of return on everything they invest.
There is an alternative.
Currently, the capacity of a line is calculated as a fixed number using a worst case scenario of high temperature, etc. However, most of the time this artificially limits the line capacity. There exist line monitoring systems which can take into account real world conditions and allow existing lines to carry more power but utilities would rather build new lines which increase their profits.

Comment Stupid (Score 0) 19

It's stupid to think that you can control information.
Chip export controls are easily circumvented and this story shows that you can't control their use.
The Chinese will soon have better chips and software than the US and they will have "all the cards".
Better for the US to just step up its game to out-compete... if it can.

Comment Re: What about the trees that fall over? (Score 2) 59

It's impressive to see the amount of damage humans have done to out natural environment.
Fortunately, others have demonstrated that "rewilding" is possible without a great effort. All you need to do is stop clearing and burning and let nature do the rewilding. When you consider that 70% of cleared land is used to support industrial meat production, a logical first step would be to let this land recover. There would be less meat but that is a good thing for human health as well as the environment.

Comment Re:Books (Score 1) 204

Books are the product of intelligent humans.
When you read a book you benefit from their intelligence.
Books themselves are not intelligent in the same sense that people are intelligent. They are static representations of the intelligent thoughts of people but they are not intelligent. Just as AI is not intelligent. AI just parrots random stuff it reads on the internet. Sometimes the AI output reproduces the intelligent thoughts of humans but there is no ability for independent intelligent thought.

Comment Re:There is no CS in the article (Score 3, Informative) 37

This article explains the algorithm and is targeted toward the non-CS audience.
It may be difficult for some people to understand but they do boil it down to simple terms.
Those who are interested can read the paper at:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F2502.177...

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