Friday, November 17
Google's DeepMind AI
Artificial-intelligence (AI) firm Google DeepMind has turned its hand to the intensive science of weather forecasting — and developed a machine-learning model that outperforms the best conventional tools as well as other AI approaches at the task.
The model, called GraphCast, can run from a desktop computer and makes more accurate predictions than conventional models in minutes rather than hours.
“GraphCast currently is leading the race amongst the AI models,” says computer scientist Aditya Grover at University of California, Los Angeles. The model is described1 in Science on 14 November. READ MORE...
Going Electric
The state of California has the most.
The 2030 National Charging Network report finds that to support a mid-adoption scenario of 33 million EVs on the road by 2030, the nation will need 28 million charging ports.
Presently, it costs about $10,000 for a level II charging station.
Cost to reach the goal: $280,000,000,000
- Go to a movie?
- Got out to dinner?
- Go shopping at a mall?
- Cost of maintenance is higher than a gas vehicle
- Resale value drops substantially
- Cost of battery replacement
- Size of vehicle
First Wooden Satellite
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are planning to launch the world's first wooden satellite into space in a bid to make spaceflight more sustainable.
LignoSat, a coffee mug-size satellite made from magnolia wood, is set to launch into Earth's orbit by summer 2024, according to the space agencies.
Wood doesn't burn or rot in the lifeless vacuum of space, but it will incinerate into a fine ash upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere — making it a surprisingly useful, biodegradable material for future satellites. After successfully testing their wood samples aboard the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this year, the scientists believe the test satellite is fit for launch. READ MORE...
Thursday, November 16
Debt and Being Unemployed
Training of ONE TRILLION Parameter
Going Nuclear
For the survivors of a nuclear war, this lingering radiation hazard could represent a grave threat for as long as 1 to 5 years after the attack. Predictions of the amount and levels of the radioactive fallout are difficult because of several factors. SOURCE: AtomicArchive.com
Here's the question: DO YOU FEEL SAFE?
We are a dangerous species... We kill for pleasure not just for survival... We are aggressive and brutal, and many human beings do not value life...
Concrete shelters will protect you from radiation fallout, but you may have to live underground for 5 years. Do you have enough food for that long? Or medical supplies? What about electricity?
Our enemy is not going to try and just kill humans, they will first target all our energy sources. If there are a lot of bombs, it will not just be for five years that we are underground. What will be left, once we can get out of our underground shelters?
- All our buildings will be destroyed
- All our manufacturing plants will be destroyed
- All our hospitals will be destroyed
- All transportation will be destroyed
- All animals will be destroyed
- All vegetation will be destroyed
- All defense systems will be destroyed
Jobs That AI May Not Take
AI won’t automate entire professions requiring social skills, adaptability & human intelligence. Healthcare, education, arts/entertainment, engineering, academia have low risk. Focus on creativity, critical thinking, collaboration. Specialize in niche skills robots can’t match.
Introduction
The continued advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics has led to increasing anxiety about the future of human employment. With machines and algorithms becoming capable of performing more and more tasks, many jobs are at risk of partial or full automation.
However, some occupations are much safer from replacement by AI than others. Jobs that rely heavily on uniquely human skills like creativity, empathy, complex communication, and social intelligence have the lowest risk of being automated in the foreseeable future. READ MORE...
Wednesday, November 15
One Year Until We Vote For President
Democrats
- Biden
- Maybe Gavin Newsome
- Maybe Michele Obama
Republicans
- Trump
- DeSantis
- Nikki Haley
- Maybe someone else???
Independents
- RFK Jr
- Former Senator Manchin (?)
- Biden is older than shit
- Biden is not really smart
- Biden is corrupt
- Biden passes out false information according to his own State Dept
- Biden is a weak president
- Biden's strings are being pulled by Obama
- Biden opposes everything Trump did without thinking
- Trump is simply an asshole and a bully
- Trump cannot keep his mouth shut
- Trump divides the US
- Trump has 91 felony indictments
- Trump's indictments will set a precedent for future presidents, not liked
- Trump is not a politician
- Trump plays to the uneducated poor class
Time Travel Speculation
Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction movies? For centuries, the concept of time travel has captivated people’s imaginations. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time, just like you move between different places. In movies, you might have seen characters using special machines, magical devices or even hopping into a futuristic car to travel backward or forward in time.
But is this just a fun idea for movies, or could it really happen?
The question of whether time is reversible remains one of the biggest unresolved questions in science. If the universe follows the laws of thermodynamics, it may not be possible. The second law of thermodynamics states that things in the universe can either remain the same or become more disordered over time. READ MORE...
MASKS
- We hide our sadness behind a mask
- We hide our anger behind a mask
- We hide our beliefs behind a mask
- We hide our true intentions behind a mask
- We hide our opinions behind a mask
- We hide our failures behind a mask
- We hide our disappointments behind a mask
- We hide our feelings behind a mask
- We hide our love behind a mask
- We hide our desires behind a mask
Chinese Robot Producing Oxygen from Water
“If you think about the challenge of going to Mars, you have to work with local materials,” says Andy Cooper, a chemist at the University of Liverpool, UK. “So I can see the logic behind it.” READ MORE...
Tuesday, November 14
Students on Our College Campuses
The administration says nothing except we believe in the exercise of FREE SPEECH.
Conservative Speakers on college campuses are barred from speaking because LIBERAL students don't want to listen to opposing views.
The administration says nothing except we believe in the exercise of FREE SPEECH.
What kind of a colleges do we have here?
I went to college from 1966 to 1968 and from 1972-1974 because I took a break and spent a few years in the military for shits and giggles. On my campus, and I was liberal then, we wanted both conservative and liberal views so we could make up our own minds. WE DID NOT WANT TO BE TOLD HOW TO BELIEVE OR HOW TO THINK...
Students are not that clever these days and they CRAVE being told what to think and what to believe and how to prepare their homework.
The students that I taught in college for three years before I retired were juniors and seniors who wrote at the high school level. Their thinking was at the high school level and their reading skills were not quite at the high school level. They had terrible presentation skills. AND... when assigned papers they wanted me to tell them what to include in that paper.
GOOD GOD MAN..... I WOULDN'T HIRE ANY OF THOSE STUDENTS...
I spent 60 hours on my MBA 1980/1981 and today you can get the same MBA in 30 hours... WHO ARE WE KIDDING HERE?
College Students, being as smart as they think they are, get their news from SOCIAL MEDIA like Facebook and Twitter or X as it is called now.
My students DID NOT
- read the newspapers
- watch the news on television
- want to do homework
- want to ask questions
- want to put forth any effort
- have any vision of their future
- know how to get a bill through Congress
- know how to spell complex words
- know simple grammar
- think they needed to retain knowledge as long as they made "A's"
The Lost City of Punt Found
Despite being a trading partner for over a millennium, the ancient Egyptians never disclosed Punt’s exact whereabouts except for vague descriptions of voyages along what’s now the Red Sea. That could mean anywhere from southern Sudan to Somalia and even Yemen. READ MORE...
Just More Opinions
SpaceX to Launch 2nd Starship
The potential launch from SpaceX's Starbase test site at Boca Chica Beach near Brownsville, Texas will mark the company's second test flight of an orbital class Starship and Super Heavy booster — the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. SpaceX launched its first Starship test flight in April, but it exploded shortly after liftoff.
"Starship preparing to launch as early as November 17, pending final regulatory approval," SpaceX wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, late Friday (Nov. 10). READ MORE...

























