Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[Woosh]

Best way for AI is for governments to fund

Deepseek telling me what I forgot to remember when I've walked into a room, doesn't seem worth the cost. 6 X 5090 => 192GB VRAM would be a fun side project for someone, but I doubt Youtube views will pay enough.

You won't get it in the neck from your missus, if you're not responsible for running it locally and it ruins her PhD with hallucinations.

Fun question: how many p in peppermint? I inputted the question in that video into ChatGPT which got it right in under 1 second because it knows that there is no need for reasoning, it went straight for the answer. That shows how fast progress has been since Deepseek R1. Not so long ago, reasoning can cause the AI to hallucinate.


Here are a few fun and deceptively simple questions to test logic and AI reasoning.



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Letter and Word Logic

1. How many letters are in the word "letters"?


2. Does "banana" have more A’s than N’s?


3. How many E’s are in "beekeeping"?


4. Which has more letters: “short” or “long”?




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Number Riddles

5. What is the next number? 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ?


6. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?




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Logic Twisters

7. Can you spell “cow” in thirteen letters?


8. You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?


9. A plane crashes on the border between the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?


More where these came from.

 

[lenny]

‘Well, we all are going to die': Joni Ernst spars with town hall crowd over Medicaid

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/joni-ernst-town-hall-00376747

“Well, we all are going to die.” Senator Joni Ernst reassures Americans about to lose their Medicaid

www.youtube.com

Joni Ernst doubles down on bleak ‘We are all going to die’ comments in sarcastic non-apology

Joni Ernst doubles down on bleak ‘We are all going to die’ comments in non-apology

‘I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth,’ Iowa senator says

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Ghost1951]

Is Earth Destined To Become A Second Venus?

It’s hard to imagine, but Earth will become a second Venus because of the long term evolution of the sun. I took this picture this morning on my morning walk as I was thinking about how mid sized yellow stars like ours evolve.


The weather was bright, the temperature about 13 degrees C. There was a cooling breeze. It was the perfect early summer morning not far south of the Scottish border. Lambs and calves are growing, buttercups and hedgerow trees are in flower. All is well with the world.

Long term though, change is certain. Whatever we do about co2, in the long term even a steady burning star like the sun changes. When it began its life, the sun radiated about 30% less heat than it does now, and every billion years or so it burns about ten percent hotter as the helium it produces sinks down into its core, increasing the rate of fusion.

Best estimates are that in another 500 million years, the increasing heat budget of the planet caused by the evolving sun, will have evaporated the oceans into the atmosphere and our planet will be a VERY different place.

Water vapour is a strong greenhouse gas and the temperature and pressure at the surface of our planet will be nothing like today. In half a billion years, life will be extinct here and there is absolutely nothing we can do to change this. It is a feature of solar evolution and is inevitable.

We happen to live at a fortunate time in our solar system and on our planet. Two thirds of which is covered in oceans containing 1.35 billion cubic kilometres of water. When this evaporates into the atmosphere in half a billion years the planet will be a second Venus, where life is extinct.

 

[Woosh]

we will destroy ourselves and be long gone more or less extinct as a species way before the end of the current Milankovitch cycle due to our own stupidity. Earth will have a rest before somehow another more intelligent homo-sapiens2 comes about. Each Milankovitch cycle takes 100,000 years. It may be one or two or 3 cycles before homo-sapiens make a comeback.

 

[Ghost1951]

Ha ha ha Polly always laughs at a bit of science. I have no idea why.

 

[Ghost1951]

we will destroy ourselves and be long gone more or less extinct as a species way before the end of the current Milankovitch cycle due to our own stupidity. Earth will have a rest before somehow another more intelligent homo-sapiens2 comes about. Each Milankovitch cycle takes 100,000 years. It may be one or two or 3 cycles before homo-sapiens make a comeback.

That may well be Tony. I don't think we are there yet and i doubt that what we have done so far would result in such a planet wide catastrophe, but the way we have seen grotesque rises in population over the last sixty years is not a good sign.

I think that overgrowth of population is our worst problem. All those people add to the changes which will come back to bite us as a species. I could easily agree that we may cause a big set back to the developed civilisation and that the species could end up surviving in pockets of small population. It is perfectly feasible.

The other thing to remember though is how short a time our species has been here. Less than a quarter of a million years for our modern iteration. A million years ago and our ancestors were living in the trees in Africa like our cousins the Apes.

My end time scenario which is a certainty and nothing to do with what WE do, is looking at five hundred times that time, though it won't happen all at once and will gradually come about.

 

[Woosh]

This is in South Korea. This factory can build your house in 3 days.
We know that the UK has a permanent housing crisis for more than a generation.
So, can we setup a similar factory?

 

[Ghost1951]

We could do, but we can never catch up because we have a massive constant stream of new population arriving here both legally and illegally. Last Sunday, 1200 people arrived in the continuous small boat invasion. This is the most densely populated proper country in Europe. Sunac issued about a million visas in a single year!

POPULATION DENSITY IN EUROPE:

England 438 people per square kilometre
France 120 people per square kilometre
Spain 96 people per square kilometre
Germany 237 people per square kilometre
Sweden 26 people per square kilometre
Italy 200 people per square kilometre

We live in a fast becoming rats nest and our politicians don't care.

We have 1, 333, 000 people on social housing waiting lists in this country.
Anyone who denies that 'new arrivals' with children are put to the top of such lists is a liar and a fool. Even here in rural Northumberland I could take you to a council house occupied by a recent family arrived from Africa.

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/council/council-gives-assurances-that-refugees-met-social-housing-criteria-after-122-given-priority-in-northumberland-5007624

So - as the Northumberland Gazzette points out, while there are 14,000 people on the Northumberland Council's housing list, they gave 122 houses to foreign migrants!

WTFK???!!!

Dogooderism gone mad.

We can not deal with all the problems of the planet here and especially not at the expense and disadvantage of our own population.

This utter blindness to reality is what has caused the flood of votes towards the party many here despise. I am no fan of Farage - I actively dislike him, but in a democracy, if you ignore the needs and the wishes of the voters, YOU WILL LOSE.

 

[lenny]

 

[flecc]

This is in South Korea. This factory can build your house in 3 days.
We know that the UK has a permanent housing crisis for more than a generation.
So, can we setup a similar factory?

South Korea also erects nuclear power stations quickly and safely, the record being in two years and four years being routine.

We desperately need both those and the lightning fast house production, but we won't do either. Simply because we are what we are, failures by any current measure and not successful South Koreans.

Can we change that? One look at the politicians we elect to lead us and the answer is a resounding NO.
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[lenny]

 

[lenny]

 

[lenny]

"The Citizens is a not-for-profit journalism and campaigning organisation with a focus on technology and politics. We use storytelling to power movements that confront the unchecked power of Big Tech and states. "
https://dispatch.the-citizens.com/about/

 

[saneagle]

Best way for AI is for governments to fund
Fun question: how many p in peppermint? I inputted the question in that video into ChatGPT which got it right in under 1 second because it knows that there is no need for reasoning, it went straight for the answer. That shows how fast progress has been since Deepseek R1. Not so long ago, reasoning can cause the AI to hallucinate.


Here are a few fun and deceptively simple questions to test logic and AI reasoning.



---

Letter and Word Logic

1. How many letters are in the word "letters"?


2. Does "banana" have more A’s than N’s?


3. How many E’s are in "beekeeping"?


4. Which has more letters: “short” or “long”?




---

Number Riddles

5. What is the next number? 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, ?


6. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?




---

Logic Twisters

7. Can you spell “cow” in thirteen letters?


8. You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?


9. A plane crashes on the border between the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?


More where these came from.

Better question for Q1. Which of these two has the most letters - postmen or mailboxes?

 

[Woosh]

Better question for Q1. Which of these two has the most letters - postmen or mailboxes?

ChatGPT:
Touché!
That's a clever play on words — while mailboxes has more letters in the literal sense, postmen certainly carry more letters in the postal sense. Well played!

You see? ChatGPT is not so dumb

 

[lenny]

 

[Woosh]

The problem with Trump is he understands business but not economics and he also tries to micromanage. You can't do that successfully unless you have the sense of detaIls which he doesn't. He sees only the upside of his ideas. He ridicules not just himself but the whole country.
Musk was excellent with project management but seems gone off since he worked with Trump.

 

[lenny]

 

[lenny]

 

[MikelBikel]

Das vunderful Deutsch engineeren, ist kaput!
Can't trade in, can't sell, will even the scrapper take it? Wunderbar