Re: [FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts

It is unbelievable to me the resources Tesla is expending on machine learning and automatic driving.They've transcended GPUs (12,000 wasn't enough) and are designing their own chips for custom supercomputers now. https://youtu.be/j0z4FweCy4M?t=6324 From: Fri

[FRIAM] Yeeah Coin Miners made it hard to get parts

https://www.windowscentral.com/roughly-25-graphics-cards-went-crypto-miners-and-speculators-first-quarter-2021-according-report TLDR: GPU's get used in a lot of places. I didn't know tesla used them for tensor processing. Or they needed tensor flow processing at all. Would that be for the self dri

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

mount a mobile phone vertically on small craft in waterproof case with solar so front and backfacing cameras can stream out to remote pilot or onboard AI to control simple propellers https://solarpanelfreak.com/best-solar-powered-phone-case/ _

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

< True, but they are not mined in Mongolia, they reproduce on their own if allowed, and worms recycle them It’s prosaic, but turns out to have been quite a challenge to imitate in technology, in a way that isn’t just superficial resemblance-imagery but full integration in a robust ecosystem.

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

Yes. Good idea. Send a poem in a bottle and I will reimburse you for it. Maybe put an Airtag in there too so that I can find it. Cody Smith On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 4:48 PM Steve Smith wrote: > I've been dropping notes (poems) in a bottle in the Rio Grande for decades > now... I suppose if I of

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

I've been dropping notes (poems) in a bottle in the Rio Grande for decades now... I suppose if I offered them for sale to down-river folks, that would suffice (even one single annual sale?) Cody, wanna buy a poem in a Bulliet Rye bottle?   It is up to you to wait at the banks of the Rio Grande

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

I didn't read the article but that last thing i want are horses. They get hurt, get sick, and they step on your feet. Also, cows are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas. I suspect horses aren't but still... --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Sant

Re: [FRIAM] AI "conquered" poker

Watching poker on TV can be weird, as can watching Formula 1. On the other hand, playing poker is no weirder than driving a car :- ) On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:15 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I don't get poker like I don't get why people would watch Formula 1 or > Indy cars drive around in a circ

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

In places that article is dismissive where it doesn't need to be, since so many of its points are strong. There are different approaches to solar and fusion for example that aren't included, instead arguing that horses are the answer! We'll all die before those solutions are adopted. I am sure o

[FRIAM] Omicron dangerous for (unvaccinated) infants

This article confirms what Eric mentioned today: while the Coronavirus was especially dangerous for older people until now, the new Omicron variant can apparently be dangerous for young infants too. Concerning.https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/01/21/utahs-covid/-J. .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. ---

Re: [FRIAM] AI "conquered" poker

I don't get poker like I don't get why people would watch Formula 1 or Indy cars drive around in a circle. Especially since they have to limit the car designs. Now this I would watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU From: Friam on behalf of Eric

[FRIAM] AI "conquered" poker

A decent NY Times article on AI in the Poker space. It wasn't paywalled for me. How AI Conquered Poker (www-nytimes-com.translate.goog) .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. ---

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

Or commerce could simply be a transaction site to pay people for imagery to map and monitor the river from their watercraft navigating the river (USV boat drone, paddleboard, kayak, canoe or other). A DAO or 501.c3 could be set up to manage the process and receive grants and donations.

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

or commerce and navigability may be accomplished by a NM Stream Commission contract to continuously survey the waterway bathymetry with unmanned surface vehicles: https://www.oceanalpha.com/product-item/sl40/ ___ stephen.gue...@s

[FRIAM] New Mexico Rivers and Navigable Servitude [was: One of many things the country is fucked on]

Cody, Noticed that issue made international news and was covered by the Guardian in 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/privatized-rivers-us-public-lands-waterways I suspect you're aware but didn't mention is Federal doctrine of "Navigable Servitude" that ties navigability

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Another way Musk profits from the collapse of global infrastructure. Smart! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/elon-musk-offering-satellite-internet-to-tsunami-hit-tonga On Jan 21, 2022, at 8:50 AM, glen wrote: Well, except that this solipsism betrays a profound similarity be

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Well, except that this solipsism betrays a profound similarity between the cheerful billionaire exploiter and the unfixable deplorables. It's almost psychotically self-centered. I can imagine a slow, corrupting process where I would if I could, as well. But that transformation would have to be

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

If anything, Musk is suspicious because he is not overtly apocalyptic. Some criticisms of Don’t Look Up were along the lines that it fails to try to persuade a change of course in favor of being condescending. That was the whole point of the movie: Comic relief among the reasonable who must

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

This video essay concludes with the same point: The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk https://youtu.be/5OtKEetGy2Y Perhaps a better title would have been "Muskian Futurism is Eschatological". But there's some deeper stuff there in the middle of the video about the appeal of geezers like Sanders to "th