Comment Rebuild, not replace. (Score 1) 51
Ask for volunteers to donate parts to replace whatever is worn out in the original Linus unit.
A ship of Theseus kind of thing.
Comment or use radiation (Score 1, Funny) 33
Place spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors in the vaults instead of in cooling ponds.
Win-win.
Comment Let's all chip in and help him! (Score 1) 130
We can start a gofundme so he can make his own backup of his work.
Round up those pennies you won't be using and help him get this backup device:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEpson-E...
Comment Re: So it begins (Score 1) 59
CoPilot sends the missiles to the real enemy at Dunthorpe, Oregon.
Submission + - Ready, Fire, Aim: As Schools Embrace AI, Skeptics Raise Concerns
theodp writes: "Fueled partly by American tech companies, governments around the globe are racing to deploy generative A.I. systems and training in schools and universities," reports the NY Times. "In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates. Days later, a financial services company in Kazakhstan announced an agreement with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu, a service for schools and universities, for 165,000 educators in Kazakhstan. Last month, xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, announced an even bigger project with El Salvador: developing an A.I. tutoring system, using the company’s Grok chatbot, for more than a million students in thousands of schools there."
"In the United States, where states and school districts typically decide what to teach, some prominent school systems recently introduced popular chatbots for teaching and learning. In Florida alone, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school system, rolled out Google’s Gemini chatbot for more than 100,000 high school students. And Broward County Public Schools, the nation’s sixth-biggest school district, introduced Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot for thousands of teachers and staff members."
"Teachers currently have few rigorous studies to guide generative A.I. use in schools. Researchers are just beginning to follow the long-term effects of A.I. chatbots on teenagers and schoolchildren. 'Lots of institutions are trying A.I.,' said Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic. 'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
"In the United States, where states and school districts typically decide what to teach, some prominent school systems recently introduced popular chatbots for teaching and learning. In Florida alone, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest school system, rolled out Google’s Gemini chatbot for more than 100,000 high school students. And Broward County Public Schools, the nation’s sixth-biggest school district, introduced Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot for thousands of teachers and staff members."
"Teachers currently have few rigorous studies to guide generative A.I. use in schools. Researchers are just beginning to follow the long-term effects of A.I. chatbots on teenagers and schoolchildren. 'Lots of institutions are trying A.I.,' said Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic. 'We’re at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out what’s working and what’s not working.'"
Comment Re:Tone-deaf (Score 1) 54
AI used to be the person who gets on the elevator with you, ignores your greeting, and says "this is what Einstein had for lunch" and then farts.
Today, the same AI is waiting for you in the stairwell, your office, and car.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What's the Stupidest Use of AI You Saw in 2025?
destinyland writes: What's the stupidest use of AI you encountered in 2025? Have you been called by AI telemarketers? Forced to do job interviews with a glitching AI?
With all this talk of "disruption" and "inevitability," this is our chance to have some fun. Personally, I think 2025's worst AI "innovation" was the AI-powered web browsers that eat web pages and then spit out a slop "summary" of what you would've seen if you'd actually visited the page. But there've been other AI projects that were just exquisitely, quintessentially bad...
— Two years after the death of Suzanne Somers, her husband recreated her with an AI-powered robot.
— Disneyland imagineers used deep reinforcement learning to program a talking robot snowman.
— Attendees at an LA Comic Con were offered that chance to to talk to an AI-powered hologram of Stan Lee for $20.
— And of course, as the year ended, the Wall Street Journal announced that a vending machine run by Anthropic's Claude AI had been tricked into giving away hundreds of dollars in merchandise for free, including a PlayStation 5, a live fish, and underwear.
What did I miss? What "AI fails" will you remember most about 2025?
With all this talk of "disruption" and "inevitability," this is our chance to have some fun. Personally, I think 2025's worst AI "innovation" was the AI-powered web browsers that eat web pages and then spit out a slop "summary" of what you would've seen if you'd actually visited the page. But there've been other AI projects that were just exquisitely, quintessentially bad...
— Two years after the death of Suzanne Somers, her husband recreated her with an AI-powered robot.
— Disneyland imagineers used deep reinforcement learning to program a talking robot snowman.
— Attendees at an LA Comic Con were offered that chance to to talk to an AI-powered hologram of Stan Lee for $20.
— And of course, as the year ended, the Wall Street Journal announced that a vending machine run by Anthropic's Claude AI had been tricked into giving away hundreds of dollars in merchandise for free, including a PlayStation 5, a live fish, and underwear.
What did I miss? What "AI fails" will you remember most about 2025?
Comment Re: Zombie Grandma Christmas (Score 1) 23
Typo above. They were not big city people, but rather rural .
Comment Re: Zombie Grandma Christmas (Score 1) 23
That got me to wondering what did my grandparents not have.
What did not exist or was not commercially available for ordinary people when my grandparents were young.
Automobiles
Telephones
Broadcast radio
Electric lighting
Refrigerators
Antibiotics
Airplanes
Women voting
They were big major city people.
It was mostly their parents that invented or engineered most of these things
What I remember about them that is different from today was they had prodigious memory capacity.
Comment Re:Why not weapons grade U-235 in civilian reactor (Score 1) 96
I reply to myself with this because slashdot is a handy place to store links.
The proposal clearly violates the NRC Dale Klein's "no bozos" rule.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneutronbytes.com%2F2024%2F...
A deja vue link:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneutronbytes.com%2F2025%2F...
"It seems that Sawtooth has gone straight to public hearings for a right-of-way, stirring up controversy in the local community with plans for a multibillion-dollar, regulatorily complex and environmentally sensitive project without prior experience in the industry, without publicly known financial backing, without a supplier and without secured rights to connect to the grid. I see no reason to believe a nuclear reactor will ever be built by Sawtooth, not least because the project manager was previously convicted of a significant financial crime.”
Comment Why not weapons grade U-235 in civilian reactors? (Score 3, Informative) 96
I can't read those linked articles, so I don't know if it's covered in there
AFAIK, Navy reactors use uranium enriched to 93-97% U-235.
That's weapons grade uranium. Unless they plan to run on somewhtat less enriched uranium than the navy uses, it's not going to happen.
Comment Re: Neither crypto bros nor anti-crypto are ready (Score 2) 19
I wonder how this would affect high frequency trading.
I suspect this will kill HFT.
Submission + - Texas makes clean power breakthrough as solar output overtakes coal (reuters.com)
AmiMoJo writes: For the first time, Texas' main power system looks set to generate more power from solar farms than coal plants during a calendar year in 2025, marking a key new energy transition milestone for the largest power network in the U.S.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) generated 2.64 million megawatt hours (MWh) of power from solar assets, compared with 2.44 million MWh of power from coal plants for the January-to-November period, according to data compiled by LSEG.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) generated 2.64 million megawatt hours (MWh) of power from solar assets, compared with 2.44 million MWh of power from coal plants for the January-to-November period, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Submission + - Elon Musk admits DOGE was a waste of time (and money) (yahoo.com)
echo123 writes: Elon Musk appeared to admit for the first time that his work at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was a total waste of time—which also destroyed his reputation.
He told Katie Miller, who is married to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that he would not take the controversial post in Washington, D.C., if he had his time over again.
“I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically built—worked on my companies, essentially," he told The Katie Miller Podcast.
“If you could go back and start from scratch like it’s January 20th all again, would you go back and do it differently? And, knowing what you know now, do you think there’s ever a place to restart?”
After a deep sigh, Elon Musk, 54, replied, “I mean, no, I don’t think so.”
“You gave up a lot to DOGE,” she said.
“Yeah,” he conceded, sadly.
DOGE oversaw a $220 billion jump in federal spending—not including interest—in the fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Bill Gates has warned Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts will cause ‘millions of deaths’
He told Katie Miller, who is married to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that he would not take the controversial post in Washington, D.C., if he had his time over again.
“I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically built—worked on my companies, essentially," he told The Katie Miller Podcast.
“If you could go back and start from scratch like it’s January 20th all again, would you go back and do it differently? And, knowing what you know now, do you think there’s ever a place to restart?”
After a deep sigh, Elon Musk, 54, replied, “I mean, no, I don’t think so.”
“You gave up a lot to DOGE,” she said.
“Yeah,” he conceded, sadly.
DOGE oversaw a $220 billion jump in federal spending—not including interest—in the fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Bill Gates has warned Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts will cause ‘millions of deaths’
Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 82
The speed of Excel are due to the core functions being written in finely tuned assembler, or at least they were in the past. It's not a secret. It's just not easily to duplicate in an open source way.
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