Twitter is not a public outlet of free speech and you'd have to be an absolutely batshit lunatic to claim it is after everything that's happened with Musk's acquisition.
It’s far more than reasonable, it might be Google’s saving grace.
I wasn’t going to bother even testing Google’s AI products unless everyone started gushing about how much better they are than GPT4 but with 60 free queries per minute? That’s worth exploring even if only to find out shortly that it’s not worth paying for.
In a small footprint you need drastically-lower energy requirements. Also, with the advent of LED lighting, you use even less in atmospheric regulation, which becomes the major power-saver outside of the lighting itself.
Also, the trick to vertical tomatoes is not what most people expect. They should look more into the upside-down pot idea and think about how best to take advantage of a top-down hanging system, like near-360 degree lighting between rows of hanging tomato plants to maximize exposure along the entire length of the curtain. These can be mounted horizontally under the nft channels the hanging plants grow from, allowing them to receive all the light they want while leaving walkway space (and overhead human-vision lighting space.)
It takes a LOT of research to make things work and everyone just promises a turn-key system. THAT can't work. My systems work because of research and lots of first-principles thinking.
TSMC doesn’t have a real monopoly, they’re just a few years ahead of everyone else in integrating ASML’s latest tech. Samsung and Intel aren’t very far behind. The more money TSMC charges the more incentive the others have to catch up but they can only move so fast. GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics seem stuck in the double digits.
It makes a big difference to a few competitive customers so TSMC gets paid well for that first mover advantage, but yeah it’s not well secured monopoly.
thinking that TSMC is "just" integrating ASML tech is a common but big misconception
ASML tech is a tool, one essential for new better chips but not sufficient
You also need to have a lot of know how about how to best use the tool, integrate it in workflows etc. where TSMC seems to be somehow ahead of Intel.
Additionally the custom tooling in the steps leading up to the use of ASML tooling are also hugely important and TSMC is quite a bit ahead of intel with that. It turned out having multiple different customers with different needs which all collaborate with TSMC to optimize the tools in their workflows.
In reality cats are man's best friend. Dogs are a child surrogate, except they never reach an age where they're independent. Which is probably half the appeal: they never outgrow us, unlike our children (or our cats).
The best part is how it's marked as a tourist attraction on Google Maps with 14 5 star reviews, despite only one person ever visiting it.
The article kind of glosses over how inaccessible this place is. Rob Mark got extraordinarily lucky that the water level got high enough to boat to the area because unlike the jungle, the water is way too cold to survive for very long even during the summer and there's no solid ground for miles at a time like in a tropical jungle. It's all bog and peatland as far as the eye can see.
Unless the government clears helicopters to rappel people down, he might be the last person to visit the area given climate change.
What a load of bunk, don't make excuses because of weakness to leave the house and live life.
Every year things get easier and people are better off.
> The boatman replied that he had no GPS
This is now called a "phone", in the amazing future of 9 years later.
Now you can buy a cheap sat phone and call the boatman (Also having the standard iPhone Emergency SOS via satellite). Next year many cellphones should start having satellite voice access.
We're not talking about a war on drugs that "didn't completely solve the problem", we're talking about one that made the problem ten times worse and fucked up society in the process.
It doesn't matter if it had any positive impact, the negative impact outweigh them so much it's a downright crime against humanity that imprisoned millions of people in a system that constitutes modern day slave labor.
The whole concept of different human species may be a taxonomic error of historic proportions despite the morphological differences we see in the fossil record. Information on the genome of archaic humans is a very recent development in a centuries old field so it is still catching up, especially at the level of educational material.
Based on my reading of the paper about the sequenced neanderthal bone [1] and a global genetic variation study [2], the difference between neanderthals and modern humans isn't that much bigger than the natural variation within the modern human genome. That difference is much smaller (on the order of 10-40x) than the difference between modern humans and chimpanzees and given the multiple genetic bottleneck events in our evolution, I think it's much more accurate to look at all the different species of archaic humans as breeds of modern humans that happen to show a larger difference with older samples because of the limited founding population and the diversity of our ancestors (of which we have very few biased samples).
Where to draw the line in speciation is always controversial but my theory is that once tool use really got going by the second stone industry, early humans started artificially self-selecting for intelligence just like we later did with dogs and eventually the modern human "breed" was born. By the million year ago mark, roughly the time evidence of fire started showing up in the archaeological record, I think the species that is modern humans was already long spreading and out competing other apes. I think shortly after this point is when we started developing clothing and moving into the colder climates, leaving evidence at places like Atapuerca.
We're not used to seeing diversity in humans, as the extant population is remarkably same-ish apart from very extremely minor traits like skin colour or eyelid variations. There's quite a bit of genetic diversity within the African continent, but even there it's remarkable how well we all cluster together, genetically.
So given a fossil record where we find people without chins and broader shoulders, etc. we go crazy with the species boundaries.
But given how rare fossilization conditions are, we're only seeing a tiny fraction of what was out there anyways, so it seems remarkably bold to classify with such confidence.
The reality is that nature doesn't "care" about species. There were likely bagloads of individuals who sat on a continuum of a diversity of traits that have since disappeared because of population bottlenecks at, disease, famine, homogenization, etc.
