I'm seeing people now saying everything will be ok, quoting the Jevons paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I'm not so sure.
I think think the biggest hurdle for AI is energy consumption. If we can't produce cheap energy then the bubble will burst.
No pressure on the (very clever) fusion nerds then.
Or compute power gets radically better.
No pressure on the (very clever) quantum computing nerds.

Basically, I feel it needs another technological advance in other areas for it all to fit together. There's only so many seed rounds they can do (which is insane at the moment) and so many times they can recycle money around each other before it falls apart.

Can you get corndogs with a mushroom duxelle layer, or an extra layer in general, like caramelised onion?
They're missing a trick of not

Bikes are bad enough over there, but that edge of the seat stuff!

https://www.cana.com/

"Cana One is the world's first molecular beverage printer"

Having dabbled in the flavouring industry anything really is possible.
I can see the likes of wine producers taking advantage of something like this.
They can create replicas of their (expensive) wines and be used in machines like this to get royalties from a niche where the average John or Jane would never dream of buying the original, authentic product.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/
I learnt something new today, being able to tell by the spikes which which telescope was used.

Every article I read I'm always awestruck at the the insane level the engineers went to get this telescope to where it is now.

I'm kicking myself now having our chimney removed because it was cheaper to do that than to repair it.

Quote from: ergophobe on February 02, 2022, 02:45:15 AM
Funny... reading your reply reminded me of something I heard from a crypto booster. In theory, Bitcoin could actually be a sort of store of energy. It's not that you would run the CPU cycles backwards. It works more like this.

1. You have a solar farm. Part of the time it is producing energy that you cannot sell.
2. You use that energy to run your server farm and mine BTC.
3. You then sell the BTC and that helps finance your solar farm.

So financially, it's sort of like storing the energy in a battery and selling it later. But you store your excess capacity as BTC.

Of course, it strikes me as much much better for society to push that excess power into batteries or a hydrogen plant or a turbine that pumps water uphill or super-heated brine or some system that is an actual store of energy. But it is in an interesting concept for making sure that there is always a market for the excess power.

Mining bitcoin makes perfect sense as there's now a real incentive to utilise the wasted energy that's already being created.

https://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/26/us-wastes-61-86-of-its-energy/

Quote from: Rupert on January 05, 2022, 09:35:28 PM
Amazing bit of engineering.  Have you seem where its at?
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Just had a peek.
Thanks for the updates

Have you seen the new 3D version, it's pretty awesome

Just had this in my inbox


If it was any other company it probably wouldn't make a difference but that's got to be a big chunk of Visa's transactions

In reality it's more like a 10% increase.
Plus adding it to the Nation Insurance to start (with it moving out as it's own tax in 2023) is sneaky.

I foresee a storm coming, and not a pretty one at that, especially when everything is going up as well.

A couple of mates started this up during the 1st lockdown - https://www.thescenicsupper.co.uk/



They need more glasshouses (NOT greenhouses) as every single one is always booked up and I can't get one even with my close ties

Quote from: Brad on October 28, 2020, 11:10:38 AM
I don't have a sub to the FT so I can't read the original article to judge how much mojo it has. 

TOP TIP: Search for the title of the article on Twitter and click on a link pointing to it.
It works for other sites too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54442386 - Coronavirus: Health experts join global anti-lockdown movement

"They are calling for protection to be focused on the vulnerable, while healthy people get on with their lives."

Been saying that from that start

> I'm not letting them stick that needle in my arm.

I certainly don't want to be a guinea pig for a vaccine that's been rushed through.

Who here will go first?

And when I say for the rest to carry on, I mean with guidance as in wearing face masks, washing your hands more often and generally improving people's hygiene which has been one good thing that's come from this.