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🔴 AI will add to the e-waste problem. Here’s what we can do about it.
"Depending on the adoption rate of generative AI, the technology could add 1.2 million to 5 million metric tons of e-waste in total by 2030, according to the study, published today in Nature Computational Science."
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/28/1106316/ai-e-waste/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #STEM #Technology #Tech #Waste @ai
@anders I have asked this same question before; however, I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer.
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#OTD in 1726.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".
@ChrisMayLA6 I think the echo chamber of right wing media also plays a part for many low information voters. They might not particularly care for policy considerations around the economy; however, they are politically tribal and want their side to win at all costs.
@tkinias Just an added bonus being able to turn a profit out of the situation.
@tkinias I think you may be onto something about the most vociferous voices in favour of the move are those that have the access and the means to gold-plated health insurance cover.
@tkinias A system that some would like to introduce in the UK.
🔴 🇳🇴 Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga
"Here we apply palaeogenomic analysis to human remains excavated from a medieval well at the ruins of Sverresborg Castle in central Norway. In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains."
Ellegaard, M.R. et al. (2024) 'Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga,' iScience, p. 111076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Paleobiology #Paleogenetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Norse #Norway #History #Europe #Academia #Academics @science @anthropology @archaeodons
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This paper disagrees: No impact of geopolitics on energy prices https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988324006935 @energyecon
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@undefined @cdarwin More importantly did it cut into profits?
🔴 Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia
"The thesis of this paper is that such paraphrases of Newton’s First Law are all incorrect, because the law, as Newton stated it, is not just a description of the motion of force-free bodies. It is in fact a stronger, more general principle, constraining the motion of all bodies."
Hoek, D. (2023) ‘Forced Changes Only: A New Take on the Law of Inertia’, Philosophy of Science, 90(1), pp. 60–76. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2021.38.
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Large scale watermarking of #AI text generated by #LLM
We need this everywhere, including #academia! 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scalable watermarking for iden...
🔴 📖 How does reading non-fiction books help you to understand the world around you?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_01.JPG
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Will AI’s huge energy demands spur a nuclear renaissance?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03490-3
Contracts with Google and Amazon could help, but bringing new types of reactor online will take larger investments — and time.
With luck, probably not...
@mattotcha Evidence based claims may not be exactly his strongest forte.
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“Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said - ABC News”
@wjmaggos Saw a few minutes of the offering but quickly turned over. I think it was the jejune generalisations and lack of any depth in the answers that helped to make the decision.
🔴 Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
"In one conversation, HDF’s organiser was recorded discussing “remigration” – a euphemism for the mass removal of ethnic minorities – saying: “You’ve just got to pay people to go home.” The term has become a buzzword on the hard right, with Donald Trump using it in September to describe his own policies in a post on X that has been viewed 56m times."
#Race #FarRight #Migration #Science #Biology #Genetics #Germany #Europe @science @biology
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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