Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert:

This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specifically, how pure solar+batteries will power AI scaleup beyond gas turbine manufacturing limits.

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Om Malik:

I bring up this recent history because it shows a pattern. Whenever there is a new competitor with a new online and social behavior, Meta management views it as a systemic risk to its attention-based economy. Instead of trying to reinvent, it simply copies and rolls out those features to its massive audience. Thanks to its large audience scale and massive infrastructure, it leaves the smaller rivals and original innovators as nothing more than mere footnotes.

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Naomi Hartono:

The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety.

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Come for the Feynman anecdote, stay for the exploration of technology and culture.

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The Tesla’s big battery in South Australia has already taken a 55 per cent share in the state’s frequency and ancillary services market, and lowered prices in that market by 90 per cent, new data has shown.

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And the 100MW battery has achieved over 55 per cent of the FCAS revenues in South Australia. So it’s 2 per cent of the capacity in South Australia achieving 55 per cent of the revenues in South Australia.

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Various estimates have put the cost savings to consumers from the FCAS market alone at around $35 million, just in the first four months of its operation.

That’s a pretty good bang for the buck for the estimated $50 million investment by the South Australia government. South Australia is the only state that has experienced a decline in FCAS prices over the past few months.

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Goes into the (dearth) of applications as well as how it works.

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A visual demo.

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Audacious.

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