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Does anyone know whether there any licences or licence derivatives - like the various flavors of Creative Commons - that currently restrict usage by AI LLMs?

And the 2nd poster in the series [1]

[1] https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/90690/90690_00_4.pdf

This is a good overview on some of the environmental impacts: 'Environmental impact of direct lithium extraction from brines' (2023) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00387-5.pdf

For giggles, two 'fake' periodic tables from different episodes of The Simpsons:

(i) An Oscar Meyer promotional periodic table with the fake element of 'Bolonium' (Bo) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohXWbMrXZI #delicious

(ii) And in the season 13 episode 'The Bart Wants What it Wants' Springfield Preparatory School has a periodic table with over 250 elements!

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." https://artofelectronics.net/lebowski/

Anyone suggest some great book recommendations to better understand modern computing hardware?

I have these three on my shortlist: (i) The Art of Electronics (3rd edition), written by Horowitz and Hill; (ii) Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition; and (iii) The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles, by Nisan & Schoken

But keen for more.

ha ha: "In November 2013, Architelos mentioned .TK, the largest ccTLD with over 20 million domains, as one of the safest domain extensions in the world." https://www.freenom.com/en/aboutfreenom.html

Good to note that the article was published on "August 17, 2021"

Link to the New Scientist article is: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384782-room-temperatur...

From the article:

"To understand why, consider someone who spent three months of the year receiving unemployment benefits while they searched for a job, then worked for nine months. The government considered their income for the entire year and averaged it, then assessed their eligibility for payments based on their average fortnightly earnings – not their income when they were out of work and therefore eligible for payments."

HN-GPT? /s

This is for Amazon as a whole (so not AWS) but recent news (26 May 2023) seems that they are targeting net-zero by 2040:

"The ecommerce giant recently backed out of a commitment to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. Amazon said in a statement that it would roll this goal into a broader Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon across all its operations by 2040. That's a decade later than the 50% goal, which was called "Shipment Zero" at the time." [0]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-shipment-zero-gives-u...

Also worth noting that this is a target. And targets can always shift eg 2040, 2050, etc

Between 20-45 minutes per day; although I am still waiting for an offer to redeem my karma for Silicon Valley VC big bucks ;)

Forget not, arguably the greatest Microsoft (UK) training video: 'The Office Values' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKyV-l8i5lg

A companion of sorts is Nestflix [0]: "Fictional movies within movies... Fake shows within shows... Browse our selection of over 700 stories within stories."

[0] https://nestflix.fun/

Kudos. [0] is the best URL I have come across in the past few years

[0] https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/just-a-fleshwound.webp

From the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, paperback edition from 2010 on page 65

"Dang: Expressing annoyance or antipathy, or as an intensive" ;)

Soylent Space... it's from asteroids, people!

What about money in = money out? If an organization pays its expenses - including the wages of its staff - well, why does there ‘need’ to be some cream leftover at the top?

What I am trying to better understand is why there is a preference (morally, legally, societally) for for-profit organizations.

Is it because (most) people are inherently profit-focused, or, that it is just the way things are? Amongst many other possible options.

You are confusing the terms loss (revenue < expenses) with not-for-profit.

In the context of organizations, not-for-profit doesn’t mean they are designed to be not profitable; rather, it means their primary goal is focused on other goals than making the most amount of profit possible.

It’s also a misnomer that not-for-profits can’t make profits, it’s just that those profits are not distributed to the capital (owners, investors) of the organization.

Sure, some good points but ultimately, it’s all about proportionately.

One can still receive many financial rewards in not-for-profit organizations: a high wage, payments, etc. without those rewards being ‘unlimited’ in scope.

As an experiment, imagine if the FAANGS and the BATs of this world were not for profit organizations; appreciating the role that venture capital played for all of them so maybe the experiment is that they wouldn’t exist!

What I struggle to understand is the relationship between the financial interests of humans (extending between the two extremes of billionaires on one hand and absolute poverty on the other) and organizational design in the west.

In other words, revenue is not profit and wages are still income, so why does the current system benefit capital (owners, investors) to such an extent.

Could we live in an alternate economic reality - maybe one that is ‘fairer’ if more of our for-profit organizations were not for profits. Or is that a fallacy?

“Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas, rat to Romans while Jesus slept? Stand up, you're out of luck” — ‘4th Chamber’ by GZA/Genius

In the same vein, why does (nearly) every organization ‘have’ to be for-profit?

What does that say about our societies that we have embedded the profit motive in (most) organisations?

Worth noting that obviously there are many not for profit organizations, just that they are largely clustered in the fields of health, education, social welfare, etc.

And also note the difference between (unlimited or at least not capped) profit and earning or being paid a living or even high wage. People often confuse the ability to earn a ‘good’ wage and a very high wage.

Thanks, so why would Raspberry Pi Trading become a publicly tradeable company then?

Or would the Foundation then have to divest of its ownership of Raspberry Pi Trading once it is listed?

So what is the distinction between Raspberry Pi Trading and Raspberry Pi Foundation from an organisational/legal perspective?

Is Raspberry Pi Foundation an entity or sub-entity of Raspberry Pi Trading, or just an affiliated organisation where Ebon Upton has roles in both organisations?

Nice anecdote, thanks for sharing :)

Thankful for marmite :)

Good points. Also worth noting that there are some LPs that are designed to be played in a random/shuffle order. The first one I heard about - although I've never heard the band confirm this - was the Red Hot Chili Pepper's Stadium Arcadium from 2006. A double CD LP designed to be played in any order was/is the rumour.

Very likely some artists have released LPs in the 'streaming era' that are the opposite of Adele's wish; that is, they have no set track listing.

As someone who knows little about quantum computing, what is the significance of 127-qubits? (as opposed to classical computing's 128 bits, as a reference)

Sounds like an opportunity for Alphabet to rebrand as ‘Really Meta’ [s]