I agree, but which god? Given the conditions, it could’ve been Ixtab, or even Nohochacyum or Kisin, but my money is on Tunkuruchu. That owl is still pretty upset about that party.

The Irish Star is tabloid trash sadly.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Exactly. Contrite she ain’t.

Narrator: She didn’t.

He’s so slimy he keeps slipping through The Claw.

We also still scrub the ocean floor trawling for any life to eat. It leaves an awful mess behind that doesn’t easily recover.

A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta will reportedly emit a staggering amount of waste heat.

According to an analysis conducted by Utah State University physicist Robert Davies, the Wonder Valley facility will dump “about 23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy every single day” into the surrounding landscape.

“The effect will almost certainly be large, if not extreme,” Davies told the CBC.

Davies conducted the preliminary analysis earlier this year for the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation (SLCN). The $70 billion project, backed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary, is set to be built 80 miles southwest of SLCN’s reserve. While it does not sit inside the reserve, the reporting notes, it does lie in a patch of land that’s considered the First Nation’s traditional territory.

In April, the Alberta government said it would exempt the Wonder Valley project from a more rigorous provincial environmental impact assessment due to its use of standard power and water systems — a move that disappointed, but perhaps didn’t surprise, legal and environmental experts.

Davies echoed the disappointment. “I can’t imagine allowing it to go forward without those full assessments,” he told CBC, adding that it could be the “largest single-site heat source on the entire planet.”

In all, the data center project will use about nine gigawatts of power using on-site natural gas generators per day, instead of drawing power from an energy grid. All that burning fuel, paired with the heat being generated by the data center operations themselves, totals a daily thermal load of between 16 and 18 gigawatts, Davies calculated — the equivalent of roughly two dozen atomic bombs. (If this line sounds familiar, it’s because Davies used the same analogy when he analyzed another O’Leary-backed data center project in Utah with a similar thermal load.)

It’s a sensational reference point, but it captures the unprecedented concentration of heat that the data center will purportedly pose. Since the power is being generated on site and going straight into the data center, the heat isn’t being spread out the way that a typical power plant’s output would, through the various homes and businesses it’s supplying across an entire region. In other words, the gas turbines are spewing heat as they generate electricity, and the racks upon racks of AI chips are generating heat as they use that electricity to perform calculations, all in the same spot.

The facility will also spew about 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the analysis — which is more than four percent of Canada’s total emissions.

“When people talk about environmental regulations that these projects have to adhere to, those regulations were not created with anything of this scale in mind,” Davies said.

In September, the SLCN filed an application for a judicial review on the Wonder Valley’s project exemption from an environmental impact assessment, and requested another review last month.

Responding to the request, Alberta’s Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas stressed in an October 30 statement that the project will still have to obtain “all required permits, provide detailed technical assessments on impacts to air, land, and water, and demonstrate the project can be built and operated safely before any project can proceed.”

But the permitting process doesn’t gauge the big picture, Davies argued.

“Permits check the parts. An assessment checks the whole,” he told the CBC. “A project this size is exactly what assessments are for.”

A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta will reportedly emit a staggering amount of waste heat.

According to an analysis conducted by Utah State University physicist Robert Davies, the Wonder Valley facility will dump “about 23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy every single day” into the surrounding landscape.

“The effect will almost certainly be large, if not extreme,” Davies told the CBC.

Davies conducted the preliminary analysis earlier this year for the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation (SLCN). The $70 billion project, backed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary, is set to be built 80 miles southwest of SLCN’s reserve. While it does not sit inside the reserve, the reporting notes, it does lie in a patch of land that’s considered the First Nation’s traditional territory.

In April, the Alberta government said it would exempt the Wonder Valley project from a more rigorous provincial environmental impact assessment due to its use of standard power and water systems — a move that disappointed, but perhaps didn’t surprise, legal and environmental experts.

Davies echoed the disappointment. “I can’t imagine allowing it to go forward without those full assessments,” he told CBC, adding that it could be the “largest single-site heat source on the entire planet.”

In all, the data center project will use about nine gigawatts of power using on-site natural gas generators per day, instead of drawing power from an energy grid. All that burning fuel, paired with the heat being generated by the data center operations themselves, totals a daily thermal load of between 16 and 18 gigawatts, Davies calculated — the equivalent of roughly two dozen atomic bombs. (If this line sounds familiar, it’s because Davies used the same analogy when he analyzed another O’Leary-backed data center project in Utah with a similar thermal load.)

It’s a sensational reference point, but it captures the unprecedented concentration of heat that the data center will purportedly pose. Since the power is being generated on site and going straight into the data center, the heat isn’t being spread out the way that a typical power plant’s output would, through the various homes and businesses it’s supplying across an entire region. In other words, the gas turbines are spewing heat as they generate electricity, and the racks upon racks of AI chips are generating heat as they use that electricity to perform calculations, all in the same spot.

The facility will also spew about 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the analysis — which is more than four percent of Canada’s total emissions.

“When people talk about environmental regulations that these projects have to adhere to, those regulations were not created with anything of this scale in mind,” Davies said.

In September, the SLCN filed an application for a judicial review on the Wonder Valley’s project exemption from an environmental impact assessment, and requested another review last month.

Responding to the request, Alberta’s Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas stressed in an October 30 statement that the project will still have to obtain “all required permits, provide detailed technical assessments on impacts to air, land, and water, and demonstrate the project can be built and operated safely before any project can proceed.”

But the permitting process doesn’t gauge the big picture, Davies argued.

“Permits check the parts. An assessment checks the whole,” he told the CBC. “A project this size is exactly what assessments are for.”

It has been a long while since reading them so I confess that I don’t recall them clearly, but the Tombs is my favorite of the series because the feeling and atmosphere she evoked while reading it. Something about how she shaped the story of the tombs darkness stuck hard for me. The inky blackness and their maze of mysteries are ingrained in my memories; so much so that Atuan is what springs to mind if a film includes such material. LeGuin’s storytelling was masterful.

What about Usenet?

I would presume it is available for download somewhere.

Yes, understanding what a word means helps. I use weary, leery, and wary distinctly as I know their definitions. Being an imperfect human I also conflate other words sometimes. When it does happen, and I catch it, I attempt to correct myself as I want to impart my thoughts in a clear and comprehensive manner. Mostly. 😬

Being “weary” is being “tired”, is it not? It would seem to be a perfectly cromulent way to use the word.

I didn’t mind playing FF, but the heartbreak it provided each week wore me down over 20yrs. Won a couple of championships, but I also had rookie FF players win championships. Lots of luck involved. T’was a casual league, but one guy kept treating it like bloodsport so I decided to stop managing a couple years ago. With the inundation of gambling in the NFL I was so disgusted I gave it up altogether. I might tune in if someone else wants to but I’ve gained soooo much time back by not watching game after game. My fav team is even currently doing well, but I don’t really have any fucks to give either way. The owners have ruined the product through greed and avarice. Very apropo for this timeline.

I thought places that identify as a membership club could ask to look at receipts.

Trump doesn’t care. It furthers his mission to destroy the nation.

Climate change is a somewhat unpredictable thing. Some places will have no, or very little, water whilst other places will have far more than they want or need. It’s one giant experiment. Yay science!

The frowns are the look of disapproval of humanity for having no money like a bunch of losers. They look down their noses at others that are not the same peak performers that they are. The bags of money prove their superiority in all things since that is all that matters apparently. Must protect these bags of monies at all costs.

The first thing I broach on the topic is that there is no intelligence. It is a language model that uses an algorithm to determine speech and conversation. It is limited to whatever it has scraped from humanity and offers nothing further. Each different LLM has its own predilections and tendencies. Some better than others, but all of it is unintelligent and will confidently tell you a wrong answer. Furthermore, it devolves into hallucinations very quickly. What have I missed or what should I add?

Edit: Article correctly states LLMs should not be anthropomorphized and “hallucination” lends to that. But I feel “undesirable outputs” is too soft even though it does strip the humanity from the LLM.