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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby

I'm halfway through and is quite interesting and enjoyable. behind the scenes documentary view into his life, academic period, pre-DeepMind, forming DeepMind, raising capital, working on various projects like the Atari games, the AlphaGo period (currently immersed in). Definitely recommend

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/241434373-the-infinit...

Just finished reading "The Great Heist" which details across a number of manufactoring sectors with some wild stories the way China implemented their "Made in China 2025" policy.

A new term has been coined! aka "hodl"

Has the EV charging infrastructure kept pace with the EV adoption?

Was this shown on Season 2 of the Ancient Apocalypse show on Netflix? Maybe S02E01 Or elsewhere? The deforestation of the Amazon has exposed some of these sites e.g the photo - "The Tequinho geoglyph site in Acre, Brazil"

Australia's snow fields are not faring much better this (current) season

https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/generation/live-data/snow-dept...

What I've learnt so far with having teenage kids in Australia is that parents are stupid. They are still allowing their 12, 13 year old daughters to access apps such as TikTok and Snapchat. Just because their other school friends are on it.

Across the country, electric cars Australians might consider to be luxury items are now standard issue vehicles in China. Massage seats, big screens and even fridges are the minimum requirement for Chinese EV drivers and with charging stations at shopping centres that can recharge a battery in under 5 minutes, there’s no such thing as range anxiety.

Looks like you forgot to put an entry into the URL field on this post and your Tycho post

I'm too scared to look :-O

Well done. Next project DIY IPL for those hair bears amongst us?

Yes, Google has an office in Australia so do all the big US companies like Microsoft, AirBnB etc. As I mentioned below Anduril have a new operation in Sydney as Australia's submarine capability is f@#ked and needs something ASAP

G'Day from Sydney

Anduril have setup shop in Sydney. Anything of interest there?

Westbury Partners if you are into high frequency trading. They pay a shit tonne (seemed to have stopped displaying the eye watering salaries)

My god! I can only imagine the carnage which would occur around my locale if those bikes were everywhere! But very impressive and tempting to put an order in

We're all going to die young in Australia as 60 minutes / Youtube doesn't allow us access to this video

In all seriousness. I like Dr Peter Attia's approach / style when a guest on other people's podcast. Keeps it simple enough and to the point

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

I came across it from a post/comments on Twitter and people were proposing that a character from the book resembles one of our current Billionaires who does car, space, social media things among others.

OMG!

The Alien's have arrived!

That's a very expensive laptop!

I thought in Australia all we had to do was open a tobacco shop, put in a self loading cash ATM and off you go.

Has been published now on iview.

I liked his other comment about how we are used to using enery to power physical work, we now need to get used to using energy to power mental work

We've identified a problem with Sonos Radio on Sonos and are working with them on a fix. You may not be able to browse Sonos Radio menus in the Sonos app until it’s resolved.

I started as an apprentice electrician at 16 years old way back in the late 1980's for a large company. I believe the reason I was successfully offered the apprenticeship was due to bringing to the interview my completed and working LED VU meter Dick Smith electronic kit (big in Australia at the time). It was something real they could hold and look over. I remember them spending a fair amount of time looking over my soldering, cutting of component legs and wiring. Then asking a few basic electronics questions. Something real pre-internet to stand out from the crowd :-)

Legend!!

I've used Linux for many years in my work environment but rarely at home. I recently installed Mint on a 15+ year old Dell. It is our only device with a DVD and this week my wife asked if I could rip an old home movie DVD. I googled a DVD ripper for Linux. I found Handbrake and with the Minute software manager application it installed seamlessly. I ran the software, stuck the DVD and within 30 minutes, the 2 hour movie had been saved to an mp4 file. Very impressed!!

Recommendations from people I follow on Twitter. Interviews from people on traditional TV promoting their book. Also, I can't count how many times from just strolling through the local library I've picked up a book which has caught my eye, borrowed it and thorougly enjoyed the book. Bill Gates book list -https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books

Video unavailable?

I'm really looking forward to this after reading all 3 books a few years ago. I tried to watch the Chinese TV version last year but lost interest.

Everyone is using Mastercard, Visa etc. It is not obvious most of the time but numerous places add a merchant fee without you knowing. The $4.50 coffee you purchase costs more as they place a 1% (?) fee on top of the price. Also, when I do need cash, I am finding it harder and harder to find a bank ATM as the banks are closing branches everywhere. The 3rd party ATM's are everywhere but you get stung with a $2 fee (at a minimum).