So is this clump of neurons just Maud-dibing it way through Doom?
07.03.2026 23:27
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So is this clump of neurons just Maud-dibing it way through Doom?
Best Part:
I’ve never wanted to read the ethics board approval for a study more than this:
www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
Also drives home the fact that neurons are not Universal Turing Machines.
I can ask group members do specific examples if this is useful for you.
There is a range of uses from very simple questions from new grad students who usually have limited programming experience, to very obscure questions from my research tech. who now maintains UVic ESCM climate model.
Reformatting excel tables into LaTex is another use that saves time.
For my research group LLMs have been useful as a Fortran reference. The language is so archaic that finding help online was always very hard. But ChatGPT usually has useful answers.
Not sure it outweighs the downsides but it is sometimes legitimately useful.
A reminder that the rapture is considered theological nonsense by almost all Christian denominations, and is a belief confined to some branches of American Protestantism.
Finally, an advertisement that doesn't suck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Well the next American on the moon. If the landing is delayed to 2029 there is a very good chance the Chinese get there first.
The Chinese lander is ready and Longmarch 10 is on schedule. Their lunar capable capsule did an unmanned test last month. And should start runs to their space station soon.
I willing to bet that ‘Einstein’ is really an office full of people in India or the Philosophies.
Always remember ‘AI’ means An Indian.
Image with purple text in a white box on yellow background Text: Townhall: Protecting Post Secondary Education in Nova Scotia A Conversation about Provincially Mandated Program Reviews and Bill 12
Why does the Nova Scotia government want to cost universities hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars? Why have they spent almost half a million dollars on an American consulting firm?
Find out more tonight! Online town hall (zoom link on linked page below)
cocogov.org/blog/townhall/
A single Navidia GPU consumes 450W. A human brain consumes about 30W and a whole human body consumes 100W.
So a single GPU, which is nowhere close to sentient, consumes the power needed for 4 adults and a child.
I from NS. My list:
Joggins fossil beach (UNESCO site)
Cabot Trail/ Cape Breton Highlands national park.
Route 19 (fiddle music + breweries).
Fortress Louisbourg.
There are many nice swimable beaches along the Gulf coast. Pugwash, Pomqet and Inverness being the best.
Well WWIII being cancelled in the 1990s, was up there in terms of historical significance.
The 1890s was the first ‘cultural decade’, the ‘Gay 90s’. So the distant past, the living past, and our kids retirement years.
I’ve had reasonable experiences, no slower than Journal of Climate.
Since the preprint is published, no worries about being scooped during a slow review process.
There is the EGU (European Geoscience Union) model. Journals owned by a scientific society, all open access , pre-prints published, peer reviews published openly.
The down side is higher page fees but at least these are going to real expenses, not rent seeking.
Direct event feeds are working fine for me. Main feed is garbage 90% commercials.
Maybe try updating the app?
The great gift of a classical Earth Science education. All data is best displayed as a ternary diagram 🙂
Even more evidence that Syphilis originated in the Americas.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Well that was blunt.
“ We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient... And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”
A BYD Plant in Oshawa will create a 1000 Year Laurentian Elite Victory
It’s mental that western car companies are just boldface lying about EV sales.
electrek.co/2026/01/14/c...
This is horrifying. I’ve cycled thousands of km in rural Nova Scotia and been chased and nipped by a few dogs.
My deepest condolences to this poor kids family.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
80 years, 4 months, 28 days since the last nuclear war. So that’s an accomplishment.
The core purpose of the UN is to prevent WWIII, all the other functions are just decorative.
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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A group of Peruvian shamans gathered on a beach in southern Lima to perform their annual New Year ritual, delivering predictions for 2026 that included the fall of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a serious illness for US President Donald Trump
