64 Replies to “April 14, 2024: Reader Tips”

    1. But Macron has Putin shaking in his boots by threatenig 20,000 French troops in Ukraine?

      2. That’s weird, I thought the Globalist military experts promised us that our Billions in tax dollars would starve Russia of ammunition & protect democracy. Why are we running out of ammunition and how much longer do we need to wait?

        I mean common now we still have tent cities to build, internet censorship to expand, Freedom of Speech to control, kids to transgender, and Open Borders not open enough yet.

      3. I think Macron’s wife/mother arranged for 20,000 rude French waiters to go to Ukraine all armed with hot baguettes to hit the Ruskies in the face with! 😉

    1. I can’t wait to see the eco-fascists’ faces when they learn that hydrogen produces water vapour, the very worst of all “greenhouse gasses” 🙂

    2. good grief.
      so part of the plan is to rely on some magical energy storage system to bridge the gaps in supply. but such a thing does not yet exist. well, only on paper where it is used to fend of criticism and doubt.
      this stuff is like another fcuking cult the level of ‘faith’ needed.

  10. IIRC

    Maybe California just got another reminder that history is important

    With that latest minimum wage infliction and the replacement of people with kiosks they should remember how a previous push on field staff wages resulted in the invention of machine small crop harvesters

    1. In some communities, agriculture has long under-invested in machinery and technical and automation enhancements. That represents opportunity, and cause for optimism.

    1. My son and I have been discussing the problem for a few months. I created my first heuristic algorithm in Pascal in the late 80s as part of my engineering project for graduation. I would posit that the creation never outstrips the creator, and merely generates lower level stuff. This is akin to Einstein’s expression that he was merely doing the works of the Creator after Him. And since the AI creators are finite, their works will also be limited by their finiteness.

      1. I’ve been trying to understand what an AI processor is and so far all I get is “An AI processor is a processor that incorporates AI technology into it”. A tell-tale sign of hype is that many software companies have been announcing AI profits before the “new” AI hardware has even been made available.

        1. An “AI Processor” is a specific hardware circuit that contains arrays, or networks, of simple ALUs with some small memory for each. Multiple inputs to each block come either from the real world inputs or from adjacent and previous blocks in the array. The array can be as large in the X and Y direction as possible. Most circuits currently under development are digital but one or two take an analoque approach.

          The array is “trained”, and a lot of AI is concerned about training algorithms, which adjust the strength, or multipliers, from each input. The simplest is pattern recognition, which really is all AI does. Feed it a large selection of inputs of characters and adjust the weighting until the determined character is signalled at an output. So, for example, the input is a 2 dimensional array of dots representing different characters and the output is a set of signals, each specifying a character – this is “X”, “Y” and “Z”, for example. This can also be done purely in S/W but is a lot slower.

          The addition of memory in each block allows for temporaral recognition too, such as audio tunes or linguistic text.

          Just a note on chess playing algorthms, which are S/W in genreal. The big improvement in chess programs came from the increased speed of modern processing and thus the ability to calculate move scores to , say, 4 levels of moves, rather than 3. Throw in a few simple heuristics and the machine appears quite intelligent but it doesn’t know it’s playing chess.

          2. This is mostly bullshit. For example “The array can be as large in the X and Y direction as possible”.

            Modern CPUs have on-chip memory which can be set to any dimension (X, Y or Z). If the dimensions of the array exceeds the available on-board memory the program then accesses main memory and eventually spools onto the hard drive for near infinite memory. I’ve used this since about the mid 1990s on a Dell desktop if you had the right compiler.

            I’ve read that AI processors can analyze images faster, process matrices faster and so on (faster is not new). Or that they are based on a RISC architecture which has been around for decades. But when they talk about the latest AI chips, are they just faster or is there some secret sauce that will blow open the doors to new features. Because right now “you are standing in a room that has two doors…”.

    2. @Robert of Ottawa

      At what point will we know 100% that AI is not already manipulating us into believing that it is a nothingburger?

      Just curious, theoretically speaking of course.

      1. For we,with our pattern seeking brain,create BS and preach it to ourselves.
        And this works,it gets us some comfort in an uncertain world..Until it does not.

        Artificial Intelligence is carefully undefined,hence one can project whatever they want and see whatever one desires.

  38. Per US Republican Senator. If it’s in the NY Times, its the new official regime narrative. Europe can now hold the S*it bag,

    “””Many in Washington seem to think that hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians have gone to war with a song in their heart and are happy to label any thought to the contrary Russian propaganda. But major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic are reporting that the situation on the ground in Ukraine is grim. These basic mathematical realities were true, but contestable, at the outset of the war. They were obvious and incontestable a year ago, when American leadership worked closely with Mr. Zelensky to undertake a disastrous counteroffensive. The bad news is that accepting brute reality would have been most useful last spring, before the Ukrainians launched that extremely costly and unsuccessful military campaign. The good news is that even now, a defensive strategy can work. Digging in with old-fashioned ditches, cement and land mines are what enabled Russia to weather Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive. Our allies in Europe could better support such a strategy, as well. While some European countries have provided considerable resources, the burden of military support has thus far fallen heaviest on the United States.

    By committing to a defensive strategy, Ukraine can preserve its precious military manpower, stop the bleeding and provide time for negotiations to commence. But this would require both the American and Ukrainian leadership to accept that Mr. Zelensky’s stated goal for the war — a return to 1991 boundaries — is fantastical. The White House has said time and again that it can’t negotiate with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. This is absurd. The Biden administration has no viable plan for the Ukrainians to win this war. The sooner Americans confront this truth, the sooner we can fix this mess and broker for peace. “””

    https://www.nytimes.com/202…

    1. Come now! There are children left unslaughtered, and atrocities still to commit! We can’t have peace!

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