{"id":11633,"date":"2023-04-09T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11633"},"modified":"2023-04-09T07:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:23:42","slug":"4-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=11633","title":{"rendered":"4.9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Easter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monolake.org\/today\/by-smallest-of-margins-mono-lake-avoids-water-diversions-quadrupling\/\">deep snow conditions<\/a>, Mono Lake Committee staff skied from Lee Vining to the lakeshore this morning, April 1, to read the level of Mono Lake cooperatively with the Los Angeles Department of Water &amp; Power (DWP). The level today establishes the maximum allowed DWP water exports for the next twelve months, and this year was an unprecedented photo finish at a critical threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the problem that ends up <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/eliot-akira\/6eaecda619d0fafd1d74\">killing company after company<\/a>. Allsuccessful software companies had, as their dominant personality, aleader who nurtured programmers. But no company can keep such a leaderforever. Either he cashes out, or he brings in management types whoend up driving him out, or he changes and becomes a management typehimself. One way or another, marketers get control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So today\u2019s post is about a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thechipletter.substack.com\/p\/iapx432-gordon-moore-risk-and-intels\">risk that Moore took that didn\u2019t work<\/a><em>. It was a project that, commercially, was a disaster. But, with the benefit of hindsight, we can now see that it was a reasonable risk to take. In fact, the spectacular failure of this project probably helped lay the seeds for Intel\u2019s success in the late 1980s, 1990s and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if they\u2019re not <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2023\/Apr\/2\/calculator-for-words\/\">reliable<\/a> for use as a search engines, what are LLMs even good for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C is a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35441886\">programming<\/a> language and Unix is an OS. So, how did they run C before Unix era?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One key to making all of this work is using a new type of engine based on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/04\/a-passenger-aircraft-that-flies-around-the-world-at-mach-9-sure-why-not\/\">rotating detonation.<\/a>&#8221; Governments around the world have been researching this technology for more than a decade because it has the potential to increase fuel efficiency in a variety of applications, from US Navy ships to rocket engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mikecann.co.uk\/posts\/the-future-of-applications\">ultimate in storage flexibility<\/a> as there is now no longer and structure to your data, it is instead simply a list of strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we are publishing Master Plan Part 3, which outlines a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/blog\/master-plan-part-3\">proposed path to reach a sustainable global energy economy<\/a> through end-use electrification and sustainable electricity generation and storage. This paper outlines the assumptions, sources and calculations behind that proposal. Input and conversation are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Correlations within the bank\u2019s deposit base are <em>a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitsaboutmoney.com\/archive\/deposit-insurance-maximization-as-a-service\/\">known risk<\/a>. This is the boring business of banking. You can diversify, <em>to a point<\/em>, but every bank has a strategy. At any of them smaller than the largest firms in the world, those strategies result in customer books where many of the customers rhyme with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LiquidPiston says its new XTS-210 solves the efficiency, lubrication and fuel type issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/automotive\/inside-out-wankel\/\">Wankel<\/a> rotary engines. This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent size or weight diesel engine, and 3X the torque.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Ron Johnson to Janet Yellen: <br \/>&#8220;You are going to drive the debt to $50 Trillion? &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Yellen: &#8220;Yes, but&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WFJqFYOAF8\">pic.twitter.com\/WFJqFYOAF8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 0420 (@FlipCrypt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlipCrypt\/status\/1643776761770156032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Meta to debut ad-creating <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Technology\/Meta-to-debut-ad-creating-generative-AI-this-year-CTO-says\">generative<\/a> AI this year, CTO says<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IMO: The film is great, but to me, it was more like a side-chapter or a sequel to the book. Just saying, for those of you thinking of reading it.<br \/>To me, the book is a masterpiece. Quirky, surreal, hyper-real, and more dry one-liners per square inch than any other book i&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexi K Artist (@AlexiKArtist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexiKArtist\/status\/1642957559534329872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>As we later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/msnbc-sucks?utm_campaign=post\">found out, among other<\/a> things via Jeff Gerth\u2019s gigantic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/special_report\/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.php\">piece in the Columbia Journalism Review<\/a>, the FBI said nothing about many stories it knew to be wrong, including the influential <em>New York Times <\/em>expos\u00e9, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html\">Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence<\/a>.\u201d The possibility that officials can lie to us in this way \u2014 leaking, asking that attribution be limited to uncheckable \u201csources familiar with the matter,\u201d then saying nothing as stories start taking water \u2014 is exactly why we don\u2019t stick our necks out for such people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this takes place in the context of what I\u2019ve dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/review.brunswickgroup.com\/article\/daniel-yergin-energy\/\">preemptive underinvestment<\/a>\u201d in world oil and gas projects. There\u2019s not a lot of spare production capacity. And demand will grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a <a href=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2023\/04\/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos\/\">PDF<\/a> copy of Satoshi Nakamoto\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf\">Bitcoin whitepaper<\/a> apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great idea &#8211; they should start with all Jamie Dimon\u2019s property &amp; the bank. And leave the rest of us alone. JPMorgan CEO suggests government seize private property to quicken climate initiatives | Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Aldo6C9Gss\">https:\/\/t.co\/Aldo6C9Gss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lara Logan (@laralogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laralogan\/status\/1644345443785011201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>As is common in France and many other European countries, the French President&#8217;s office, known as the Elysee Palace, insisted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview\/\">checking and &#8220;proofreading&#8221;<\/a> all the president&#8217;s quotes to be published in this article as a condition of granting the interview. This violates POLITICO&#8217;s editorial standards and policy, but we agreed to the terms in order to speak directly with the French president. POLITICO insisted that it cannot deceive its readers and would not publish anything the president did not say. The quotes in this article were all actually said by the president, but some parts of the interview in which the president spoke even more frankly about Taiwan and Europe&#8217;s strategic autonomy were cut out by the Elysee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Easter! In remarkable deep snow conditions, Mono Lake Committee staff skied from Lee Vining to the lakeshore this morning, April 1, to read the level of Mono Lake cooperatively with the Los Angeles Department of Water &amp; Power (DWP). 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