hugging tell me. $300 goddamn dollars. My salary is not keeping up with life. What is the point of busting my ass at work when the check doesn't even cover things?
Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)
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Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought
Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water
www.theguardian.com
NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud
Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines
I suppose it makes it easier to scale out than having to expand your own equipment, or refresh it regularly, but something about this now relying on corps doesn't sit right with me...
Ah, there's the real reason. A lot of weather forecasting is pattern matching I expect, so this is an application actually suited for LLM style AI tech.
Unless you're just categorically against AI because AI, this is a good move. Google's AI was not just competitive but the best performer last hurricane season. It was scary good. It must have noticed some patterns we don't know about yet, and because we don't know what it is we can't design a model to look for it.
Which is a good reason to not want it: hiding unknown data to ensure they get paid is pretty hugging scummy under general circumstances. Worse when referring to disasters.
But... it's unknown to us either way. It sucks that one evil company holds this knowledge (if Google's engineers even know what their AI has found here) but it's better than nobody knowing, which was the case up til now.
Normally I'd be concerned, even at the best of times, about letting LLMs do science things because they're complete black boxes that nobody, even their creators, know how they actually work. Or what to do if they stop working right. But... this is meteorology we're talking about. It's such an inexact science already that the only practical difference from actual occult fortune telling is that it's generally more reliable. When the weather forecast is wrong, the people behind it already couldn't tell you why. I say go for it. And when it inevitably goes haywire and starts spitting out garbage all the time, that's just called "back to square one."
"Spitting out garbage all the time" pretty much sums up how the GFS performed last year. The next time it and Google's bot give me two different forecasts, I'm going with the bot.
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep spinning, fuel-free, to steady the solar that replac
Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a huge
www.autonocion.com
This is the way.
Amber heat health alerts issued in England as temperatures set to hit 36C
Parts of the UK are set to see their fifth heatwave of the summer
www.independent.co.uk
Fifth heatwave of the year where temperatures go above 30C across Britain. Fifth! The temperature getting that high once a year was a freak occurrence until, well, now.
Don’t worry, you’ll all be underwater soon if the temps keep hitting 100F up above the Arctic Circle
The Government(tm), as in the British one, just did an emergency alert on everyone’s phones. Because of all the burning. (I have had the smoky odour of the New Forest blazing away filling my throat and nostrils all day.)
Edit: apparently in Wales they got the Welsh language alert five minutes before the English language one, terrifying everyone there who is not able to read Welsh. Amazing.
Edit: apparently in Wales they got the Welsh language alert five minutes before the English language one, terrifying everyone there who is not able to read Welsh. Amazing.
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All of them. All the generations.
Don't worry, in a couple months we'll be buried under record-breaking snow instead.
Lizards are begging me to let them come inside to get out of this heat.