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OneDonOne··on Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call
The Chinese already have a 125e Small Modular PWR that would be excellent for small islands like those of the Caribbean. It is the Linglong-1 [0]. I believe the first one cost 800 million dollars. It will be interesting to see the price reductions as it goes into serial ptoduction.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-start-commerci...

OneDonOne··on Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
There is a missing link that shows the post-Apartheid behaviour - Paul Calder Le Roux.

https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/satoshi-files-paul...

It is all their when you include him: the unstable personal identity. The contempt for average South African (British or Afrikaaner) while being a minority white. The Sovereign Individualism. The use of the Internet to pioneer new firlds of commerce (telemedicine). The contempt for women. The attempts breed Ubermenschen. And of course, the utter contempt for Rule of Law.

We can also explain much of their behaviour when we look at his life story.

OneDonOne··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
In 1986 and 2014, science (electron optics, nanoscopy/nanolasers) came first. Then the microscopy. Even 2017 won for 3D microscopy. What Nobel-worthy physics does thing do?
OneDonOne··on Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and Neural Networks
So do telescopes. Has anyone every won a Nobel for a telescope?
OneDonOne··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
What Nobel-worthy physical, chemical, or biological process has been solved/discovered in silico?
OneDonOne··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
What do computer programs have to do with physics?
OneDonOne··on Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf]
Not all of us are able to, or want to, use ebooks. Especially textbooks where one may be going back and forth through chapters fairly frequently. Simply saying "muh Libgen" ignores how most people , especially teenagers, study. For teenagers, any smart device will lead to distraction if connected online. They usually choose Insta over the PDF reader in their distraction.
OneDonOne··on Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, report finds
If any of this is true:

1. Why haven't renewable solutions solved Germany's energy crisis?

2. Why didn't Germany experience its current problems while its nuke pants were operating?

3. Why has Germany been opening dirty lignite mines instead of just applying Gigawatts of renewables?

Something is not right I think.

OneDonOne··on Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
Not to sound like some sort of Pale Moon absolutist, but, I feel like the frontend changes were too much. And 3 years without Firefox biggest selling point is painful. It hurts. It really hurts. The only reason I haven't sold my soul and dignity to Chromium is that Iceraven lets me use μMatrix.
OneDonOne··on Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons
There was no need for that "redesign". None. There is a distinct possibility that older Firefox could be in use today without issue. People must learn when to just leave certaon features alone.
OneDonOne··on Language Models Represent Space and Time
No new ideas have been advanced in anything reported here. A state machine change state is all that is going on here.

What I'd like to know is why should anyone care about this preprint? Nothing has been stated on how this software will improve the life of the average human being.

LK-99 at least would have had lead.somewhere if it worked.

OneDonOne··on Language Models Represent Space and Time
>A lot of people exercise their intellectual, economic, or political freedoms by rejecting others' efforts to gain the same things.

Could you please explain what the above has to do with a Large Languange Model?

OneDonOne··on Language Models Represent Space and Time
A bigger Chinese Room - is still a Chinese Room. We already went through this with ELIZA 60 years ago
OneDonOne··on South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar panels(3.4GW) in 6 months
Thank you for the correction. Let me swap it out for Zambia
OneDonOne··on South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar panels(3.4GW) in 6 months
If any colonialism is being done, it certainly is not being done by China. The "China.Debt Trap" nonsense has been.debunked too many times to count. As cited below.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/ch...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/08/debunking-myth-debt-tra...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QDEWwSkP0 (Bloomberg)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19480881.2023.2... (From 2023)

Even where I am,CHEC is used as a local political tool, not the other way around.

OneDonOne··on South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar panels(3.4GW) in 6 months
So Tanzania,Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Togo, Botswana, Seychelles, Mauritius etc. don't exist?

At the end of the day, South Africa was always a basket case. Massive defense industry trying build Peacekeeper missiles and Apache type helps. Dumping the majority of your population into a racist totalitarian hellscape. The economy only worked due to resource extraction that used a massively underdeveloped and overtaxed majority controlled gybe totalitarian state.

As much of the above economic superstructure has not changed, one can hardly then expect the basket to become a bucket.

OneDonOne··on Indian Influences on Rastafarianism
Then you must have a very interesting definition of reggae.

This piece has no skank. It actually arpeggiates on the 4 beat, and is played by a percussion instrument, instead of the usual Fender Jazz electric guitar.

Also, none of the,drumbeats are present (rub-a-dub, steppers, one drop, rockers).

Listen to how your clip sounds compared to the below - Drop into a Walk by Yuzo Koshiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKhseX_wWqU

OneDonOne··on John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs
I thought it was the short stories "Sunken Gardens" and "Cicada Queen" by Bruce Sterling from his Shaper/Mechanist universe.

Oh well.

OneDonOne··on Indian Influences on Rastafarianism
In this case we have a documented history of the origins of reggae music as an outgrowth from ska and reggae. This includes confirmation of the genre's post-Independence origins. So I'm not sure what this "Indian Origin of Reggae" comes from or why no historian or musicologist has ever noticed this.
OneDonOne··on Indian Influences on Rastafarianism
Citation Needed.
OneDonOne··on Indian Influences on Rastafarianism
I've been hearing about this influence for,"years". But if you were to ask any of my classmates, co-workers or the guy who lives up the road from me - they'd laugh in your face.

Rastafarianism may have been influenced Indians - but it sure isn't now!

Rasta has always been a Black Power movement that takes Haile Selassie as the reincarnation of the Black Christ prophesied by the "prophet", Black Nationalist Marcus Mosiah Garvey.Think the Nation of Islam, but less dogmatic and centralized . Garvey is in other respects, Jamaica's first National Hero.

The ban on cutting hair (Leviticus 21:5, Numbers 6:1-5, Judges 13:5), vegetarian/pescatarian diet and the smoking.(not all Rastas are ganja smokers) are features of the Nazarite vow. No one is mentioning Indians when they're that Nazarite vow to join the House of Nyahbinghi or Bobo Ashanti

OneDonOne··on He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022)
Yes, but then comes the question - who mentored.the mentor?
OneDonOne··on List of Oldest Companies
> Anyone else nerd out on this kind of thing? Companies here go all the way back to 578 AD.

> I bet you could create a killer Twitter account and newsletter by just researching and writing about each of these.

Don't you mean "Threads" or "Mastodon" account and newsletter?

OneDonOne··on Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari
> We are talking about sub-Sakharan Africa [...] the land of racial segregation, endless wars, genocides and hyperinflation on wheelbarrows-of-banknotes scale.

Citation needed.

OneDonOne··on Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari
Buggery is illegal, and rarely enforced.

Homosexuals are all over the damn place since about the 2010s

OneDonOne··on Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari
Suchh divisions are superficial to most Rastaman. As per Peter Tosh:

https://genius.com/Peter-tosh-african-lyrics

OneDonOne··on Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari
>Reggae is so deeply & necessarily intertwined with the religion. It's like saying you like gospel or byzantine chant except for the christian lyrics.

This hasn't been true for a very long time. Just look at Lover's Rock and the really big guys there

- Beres Hammond - Gregory Isaacs - Dennis Brown - Sugar Minott - Ken Boothe - Alton and Hortense Ellis

This certainly is not a religious song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lJEQnmDnIq8

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