CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@arstechnica all this time we believed that this was advanced technology that only our civilization possessed.

@sundogplanets that is quite shocking, and it is good to hear this report of your. Are any news outlets even covering this?

One data-centre will use 10% of provincial electric... I assume the power company is operated by the province. In Ontario it is.

@donray is that a beaver?

@gregeganSF this ties back in to a couple of articles that I spotted the other day because, lightning actually produces nitrogen that becomes fertilizer for the ground...

Shaula Evans (@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us)

"Gardeners often refer to snow as nature’s fertilizer. But why? Like rain, snow captures nitrogen, sulphur and other trace elements as it falls through the air. Unlike rain which can quickly run off the soil surface, the snow slowly releases these nutrients into the soil as it melts. This gives the plants a much needed boost at the start of spring." I am fascinated to learn this! https://bokashiliving.com/discover-how-snow-helps-your-garden/ #Snow #Gardening

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Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️ (@joewynne@mindly.social)

📰 Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study. Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems. ➕ Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/mangroves-clean-up-usd8-7-billion-of-nitrogen-pollution-every-year-study-finds #SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation

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@ShaulaEvans @joewynne

@ShaulaEvans @joewynne , so, as it turns out snow is also doing the chivalrous deed of encapsulating extra nitrogen and bringing it into the soil on the ground.

I just want people to know that snow can do it too. So mangroves and snow should be friends but, there is basically never any snow where you find mangroves...

It's like they just were like "we're both gonna do it but, we're gonna do it separately. You stay on your turf and I'll stay on mine!"

@joewynne there is another post from someone telling about how nitrogen is being captured in snow. My timeline somehow stacked your post right next:

Shaula Evans (@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us)

"Gardeners often refer to snow as nature’s fertilizer. But why? Like rain, snow captures nitrogen, sulphur and other trace elements as it falls through the air. Unlike rain which can quickly run off the soil surface, the snow slowly releases these nutrients into the soil as it melts. This gives the plants a much needed boost at the start of spring." I am fascinated to learn this! https://bokashiliving.com/discover-how-snow-helps-your-garden/ #Snow #Gardening

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@clive that's super weird. Is there a practical application for that? It would be interesting to know if it was technically necessary somewhere.

@eff @axoromero I would have liked to see more depth to the article. Everyone basically agrees with you but, don't pin the article on just that.

I would have liked to have seen more of a focus on 'how government policy is made'(and why). Clearly there have been some lawsuits against companies that have been leading up to this government decision in California. Extending the local context could have been an angle, instead of reaching far away(Austria).

Even so, well done on the website.

@eff it might have been a little better to credit the author https://mstdn.social/@axoromero when making the posting of the article. Why not, right?

@mttaggart VANILLA is good. No external dependencies should be pressed a little bit harder. And... it would be great to have that packaged in a single file. Try telling these 'Claudes' to do it that way.

@burger_jaap that makes a lot of sense, and from the perspective of my home province of Ontario in Canada, where we sometimes need to offload electrical power cheaply to the USA(because there is too much for the grid), this is something we should be looking at carefully.

@petersuber I guess it might be time to go back to the in-house hard-copy to determine what is true or false. We're seeing the death of information and the dumping of concocted half-truth of the most misleading kinds. That coupled with human over-confidence and over-reaching is a bit troubling.

@StaceyCornelius this rings true to me. Neocities has seen a big uptick but, I still think that it's best to just pay the few dollars for the hosting.

The setup, all said and done, will be the maximal decentralization that Mastodon users are always touting. So, why not go the rest of the way? There might be some little javascript snippet work left to build out some options for static site interconnectivity.

If only the site construction process could rival the social media speed and work-alike

@futurebird we could also defer to the reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

@WellsiteGeo @cstross from what I have read, the model that is being transferred to the users machine is one that purports to aid in 'writing essays' and whatnot.

Essentially, what that can do, is parse your inputs for idioms. Does that make sense?

That's then a known intermediate step before likely using the one at the search prompt with google.

They installed it, and they know the offloading step and result. So there is a huge advantage to using your machine to compute, and feed it back in.

@arstechnica I like not changing very much, and not putting very many things into alias. That way it won't matter what machine you are using. It's really good to just use the standard stuff, and stick with that.

@cstross it really is a hassle for a lot of people, and if you have left it, the thing will be constantly eating into your processing speed... in a very big way. It would essentially dominate your machine.

This really is sinister. The company has reached a stage in their development process where they have nothing new to train the model on.

So now they need to train it directly from you, on your machine.

It's all that's left for reach.

@liquor_american @benjaoming

I don't think I have it, so I feel sort of ripped off right now.

I tried asking the AI from google to tell me where it is.

@liquor_american @benjaoming i think i'll search for it now. And maybe I should read the blog post... hmmm...