Dave T-W @davoloid@social.cleverlibre.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
@Dr_Ubertrout @SemAntiKast @RickiTarr You might be confusing it with Chinese, in whichPenguin is "enterprise goose".
@xanna 50/1 for a GE by March, 4/1 by June. Watch those odds change...
#UKPol news is looking juicy. Get ready for a spring general election! When you have to fall back on "respect the will of the people" you know you've lost the argument. Votes of No Confidence in Sunak apparently coming in.
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Each ChatGPT query consumes the equivalent amount of energy of running a 5W LED bulb for 26.5 hrs
https://medium.com/@zodhyatech/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-consume-4cba1a7aef85
An exchange with AI costs 10-times more energy than a standard keyword search,
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tech-giants-ai-like-bing-bard-poses-billion-dollar-search-problem-2023-02-22/
Training GPT-3 used 700,000 liters of clean freshwater,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271
ChatGPT needs a 500-ml bottle of water for a short conversation of roughly 20 to 50 questions and answers.
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/04/15/the-secret-water-footprint-of-ai-technology
@bloor Just running the theme in my head I can imagine there being quite a good film. Would have to be someone eccentric like Luc Besson or Spike Jonze.
@bloor Perhaps they're getting ready for that long anticipated Wombles origins movie.
@MAKS23 That's at least 720km from Ukraine. Interesting.
@SuneAuken @ottocrat Strasbourg: Am I a joke to you?
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'All the while, the handful of opposition MPs just looked on in amazement. Was this really a party of government? These just weren’t serious people. Rats in a sack. The amendments were going nowhere. And we would all be back tomorrow for more.'
Tories reach new levels of derangement as MPs debate Rwanda bill | John Crace | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/16/tories-reach-new-levels-of-derangement-as-mps-debate-rwanda-bill
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UKPol - The Bad Guys
Since David Cameron promised a coalition of chaos with Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon we've had 5 different Tory prime ministers
We're on round 4 (?) Of the Conservative Cabinet falling on their swords to protest something their own government is legislating for (Brexit Agreements, Bojo, The Truss Budget, and now the Rwanda plan).
It's over. Call an Election already.
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On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning (1/3)
@RustyBertrand In case you just need it right now rather than telling you how:
https://mastodon.social/@RustyBertrand
@RustyBertrand @ErikBloemkolk49 e.g.
If you are on an iPhone I assume there's a similar process.
@RustyBertrand @ErikBloemkolk49
1) Go to your profile
2) Clificky the top right 3 dots
3) Select share profile
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"It's waste heat." This climate myth had its time in the sun; just see comments dating back to 2010 and then dribbling on for the next 11 years. Our rebuttal still lands a few reads per week.
In reality, energy (mostly stored in fossil fuels) we're liberating via waste heat pales in comparison to feedback effects of combustion CO2 emissions.
We've revised our treatment of this topic to make it easier to understand. Reviews welcome!
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The British Library's online catalogue is coming back online today! Hurray! I dread to think how hard they have had to work to get things back online.
When organizations ask you to change your password, or demand two-factor authentication, don't mutter and whinge. Just do it. Public institutions are under just as much threat as big companies.
@Tendar Maybe down to 7 of the A-50s, according to this estimate of the fleet.
https://www.militarytoday.com/aircraft/a50.htm#:~:text=A%20total%20of%2040%2D42,and%206%20A%2D50U%20aircraft.
@Tendar Question: How many AEW systems do they have, and are typically deployed in the region?
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
