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Written by Tom on 2025-02-02 at 12:28

Nice to see the The Dublin Data Protection Commission getting all over Deep Seek with such speed. Maybe they'll finally get round to thinking about maybe starting to consider having a look at Google, Meta, Amazon etc now? (not holding my breath).

[#]GDPR

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Written by Tom on 2025-02-02 at 12:25

I think Nvidia will come out ahead after the deep seek shenanigans play out.

If Deep Seek is a winning approach many more players can join (so many more smaller sales), if it isn't then its back to the big players cornering the market. Either way Nvidia has a market (maybe not as big as 2024 but big enough)

Honestly its OpenAI etc who are most at risk.

[#]generativeAI

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Written by Tom on 2025-01-31 at 14:59

My wife just aquired this for future expeditions with our grandson.

https://geckopress.com/bookshop/the-observologist/

@futurebird there is a sidwalk ant section.

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Written by Tom on 2025-01-22 at 18:03

Go on,cheer yourself up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s53VK_X5c_Y

[#]funny

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Written by Tom on 2025-01-15 at 10:43

@jasongorman @baldur

We have been told for a couple of years now that "Our LLM can write an entire website with a few good prompts".

As this would obviously be great advertising to showcase its power I assumed that the leading LLM providers would have migrated their websites over and would be crowing about it.

Are there any?

[#]lazyfedi #LLMs

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Written by Tom on 2025-01-14 at 13:30

[#]capitalism

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Written by Tom on 2024-12-31 at 13:32

How many use cases now remain where green #Hydrogen is the best fit? Batteries keep edging it out as costs plummet and energy density shoots up. Trains, trucks and automobiles all look like batteries are best. Same for short to medium range shipping and probably same for short to medium flight? Moving power around will probably end up via HVDC (especially with superconductors coming along).

Some industrial processes? Iron, fertiliser?

Still a candidate for seasonal load shifting?

[#]renewables

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Written by Tom on 2024-12-17 at 13:14

Elixir Stream Week was a great event and this is a great write up of all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans 😃

https://blog.swmansion.com/elixir-stream-week-how-not-to-load-test-during-a-live-elixir-run-broadcast-watched-by-hundreds-of-217d8f4b957a

[#]Elixir

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Written by Tom on 2024-12-13 at 10:49

https://www.ft.com/content/d39a04ae-9e09-49cd-8fe9-90ba5c825fa7

Honestly didn't know how badly non-competes are abused these days.

Sadly unsurprised though.

(Thank you @pluralistic for highlighting it on the Volts podcast https://www.volts.wtf/p/can-we-avoid-the-enshittification)

[#]Enshittification

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Written by Tom on 2024-10-27 at 11:24

Beats a new gas plant (though that is still on the cards I believe) .

https://www.ess-news.com/2024/10/25/apatura-scotland-bess-permit-100-megawatts-tealing/

[#]scotland #RenewableEnergy

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Written by Tom on 2024-10-12 at 09:23

https://www.ess-news.com/2024/10/09/energy-storage-is-a-solved-problem/https://www.ess-news.com/2024/10/09/energy-storage-is-a-solved-problem/

Interesting but I wonder what the local ecological impact of frequently rising and falling reservoirs is? TANSTAAFL applies to all these solutions.

[#]RenewableEnergy #energystorage

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