jbsimpson

It's a fundamental limitations of LLMS - don't use them if you're worried about hallucinations.

Anyone using AI tools should assume that at least 20% of what it produces will be wrong: Missing details, inventing things, basic mistakes.

Use AI if being 80% right quickly is fine. Otherwise if you have to do the analysis anyway because accuracy is critical, there's little point to the AI - its too unreliable.

If we had the renewables to replace the coal politicians would love it to retire in a heartbeat. The reason it’s sticking it around longer is because politicians fear the backlash from blackouts and high prices more than the backlash from the bad PR of delaying closures of coal.

When Tassie dams get low, they import power from the mainland. It’s a common seasonal thing. Drought + Basslink outage had the gov buying and running diesel gen at huge cost to keep the grid running. The Basslink outage made a problem a crisis.

are you sure it wasn't prostitution but child abuse overseas that was illegal?

You also have to factor in how terrible post-doc pay and job security is, just to have a shot at getting on the tenure track. In the US it's half of that 80k number in bio research.

The effect is so significant that South Australia actually experiences intervals of negative operational demand.

From the institution, not the authors.

Typically the authors pay the journal out of their own funding.

40% of Australia's population lives in just 2 cities.

Depending on the season Tasmania exports a lot of electricity to the mainland.

South Australia is a fascinating case study of this in action - average prices in the middle of the day are actually negative.

This has been clear for a while. The real challenge for grid operators at the moment is system security - we need sufficient storage to ensure that supply and demand are consistently balanced.

in the frequency control auxiliary services (FCAS) market the provider with the fastest response can completely control the market, forcing other providers to transfer almost unlimited wealth in any desired direction

My understanding of the FCAS market is that it is quite shallow, and while there is indeed a first mover advantage that Hornsdale (Tesla battery in SA) has capitalised on, if all the other battery projects in Australia go ahead, they'll probably collapse the price.

What uptake is it having? I've only ever seen it used as a marketing device.

If your reasearch $$$ depends on you to keep showing that humans are destroying the climate

Except if you cared about money, it is far easier to sell out and take the money from the industry groups who want to fund research to throw the science into doubt.

Flow hive is a cool idea, but its expensive, and a lot of people bought it because they thought it automated beekeeping whilst in reality the majority of the work in keeping a hive is maintenance, inspections, etc.

I already purchase my hives as pieces of wood that I have to assemble, glue/nail together, paint, etc and I know that the measurements for things like the bee space are correct so the bees won't gum it up. Always neat to see these DIY projects, but I feel like pre-cut is about as much as I trust my ability to measure and construct precisely.

Do people keep A. cerana in Hong Kong in a domesticated fashion? The impression I had was that they were much less attractive than A. mellifera because their hives are much smaller, they swarm more easily, and they produce less honey. Also, since you can purchase strains of A. mellifera that have been bred for good temperament, I wonder how A. cerana compares in that department.

The issue is how many researchers want to spend their time replicating the research of other people rather than doing their own original work. Getting funding is already incredibly hard, plus no-one is going to give you tenure or promote you for replicating the work of others.

Publishing papers in the West provides a pretty direct benefit - there's a reason behind the saying 'publish or perish'.

It's stuff like this that really puts me off app development.

I find that I always have a bunch of minor stuff that needs to get done at work which ultimately doesn't matter, but feels good to check off on a to-do list. I also have tasks relating to software I'm developing which is much more important in the long-term, but is not immediately urgent. I'm currently experimenting with the idea of keeping two types of to-do list: a list of things I can't forget that I need to get done every day, and a list of things that advance my projects. Has anyone tried something similar or use a different methodology to get things done?

This is really interesting, I've been wanting to learn more about Torch for a while but have been reluctant to commit to learning Lua.

I don't know, I see a difference between an email personalised to myself and my current situation seeking my business vs mass spam.

I completely agree - if you swoop in and promise better uptime etc then you're making a deal with people that they won't experience this problem. You now need to be sure you can deliver.

That's exactly my thinking. If I actually made money off my site or it was happening too often I would have been really ripe to poach.

capitalizes on a competitors stumble

If I was actually making money off my site, I would probably be livid enough to dump my current provider - this is by no means the first time this has happened (although of course I bring this on myself by choosing an extremely cheap hosting provider and completely accept the risks I take).

Yes, it is sad when people stuff up, however if I was earning a living off that hosting, then I wouldn't see something wrong in a competitor specifically offering to fix something that is hurting my income.

Fair point, although one could argue that its situations like these that are potentially most likely to make you reassess how much you want to spend on hosting - these guys are actually more expensive.

Well, they sent me a personalised message, deliberately at a point when I was frustrated with my current hosting provider. I don't make money off my site, but if I did I'm pretty sure I might have been livid enough to take them up on their offer. When you

"cold sales emails" There's a difference between cold sales emails that are completely impersonal and emailed out to thousands of people an an email that is personally addressed to me and my current situation.

"believe promises" No, you're reading in to what I believe. I stated that it made them look good since they were responding to me more quickly than the company I was paying which had stuffed up.