EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway have huge government innovation funds. Unfortunately they are mostly given to manage to politicians who are loyal, but not very bright, and possibly corrupt.
Now would be a perfect time to take advantage of the stupidity of Trump and channel these government investments into building European infrastructure providers (cloud and AI), but I very much doubt this will happen.
Without goverment support there is just no way in Europe to raise the capital that is required to compete with the American big tech.
EU assigned as commisioner of Startups, Research and Innovation a bulgarian politician called Ekaterina Zaharieva. Bulgaria is the poorest member of EU - shows you how much EU values startups, research and innovation.
On top of that Zaharieva is a member of the political party Gerb, well known for corruption. A few years ago somebody took pictures of their leader sleeping in his bedroom, surrounded with gold bars and stacks of euros. An ex-financial minister from Gerb is sanctioned for corruption under the Magnitsky Act.
My guess is the battery will come with some sort of remotely controlled switch that disconnects the house from the grid, before the battery starts supplying power.
This is an interesting idea and I wish you a good luck building a profitable business around it.
Before starting to apply voltage to a home electric gird, I guess you need to disconnect it from the central grid - how do you do that? Or do you detect when the grid goes down and comes back up?
"Change is inevitable. You can’t stop the railroad as they used to say. It’s going to kill some jobs but not all of them."
I personally don't worry about jobs. AI is progressing very fast (there are a lof of smart folks working on it, there are a ton of money invested and there's a lot of demand from businesses, governments and individuals). Human inteligence stays the same. I think it's likely that sometime soon AI models will become more inteligent than an average human. And then more inteligent than the smartest human. And then more inteligent than the whole human race combined.
Let's say some worms 600 million years ago could think. And they consider should they kill all mutants and stay forever the pinnacle of evolution as they are or allow some of them to evolve into fish, and then mammals and eventually inteligent humans. I think we are in a position like this - we are currently the pinacle of "creation" in the known universe - do we want to stay this way - by blocking AGI progress, or do we want to allow minds far greater than us to evolve from current LLMs at the cost of probable human extinction eventually.
Boeing has been very slow at raising salaries and contract rates in the last 15 years or so. That lead to a lot of the best engineers, managers and technicians leaving.
Apparently a few CF customers got emails last week saying that CF is investigating a customer data leak. Wonder if it has something to do with the lack of response from support.
DDR5 has a bit of ECC built in, but yeah - one of the major problems that Intel created is using ECC RAM support as a feature to sell their Xeon line of processors and so living 99% of the desktop users without ECC.
SoC RAM let's the vendor abuse the user. The 8GB needed to go from 8GB to 16GB on a MacBook Air cost Apple less than $10, but it charges the customer extra $200 for it.
Don't see how Apple makes more money is a good thing - it means millions of their clients have less money left.
I need 64GB, this Intel new generation will be useless to me. I think Dell XPS is the only laptop with Qualcomm Snapdragon X that offers 64GB currently.
I see upgradable RAM as on of the big advantages of x64 laptops over Apple and Qualcomm. Not sure Intel's current strategy to emulate their competitors, rather than play to it's own strong points is a good one.
I think it's early days and whyle AI can write code to deliver features it's not perfect. So someone who knows how to write code, deploy software has a basic understanding of software architecture and cyber security will have a lot more luck than someone who has to run everything through the AI.
It's similar to how computers in chess worked. At one point (around the 90s and 00s) computers could play very good chess, but they had weak spots. So the best chess player in the world was a team of humans and computers. But eventually computers got better and no longer needed any human help. I think a similar scenario may play with software development, and we're still not at the place where an AI can everything without technical input from a human.
Very interesting. Wonder what does building an aircraft carrier fleet say about China's military priorities. Are they more focused on occupying Taiwan, or on keeping the Malacca Straight open for commerce, or on power projection across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The first symbiotic event was a million times harder than the 2nd or the 3rd. The first time the host had the extremely hard task of dealing with any DNA and RNA produced by the guest during it's life and death. The host had to evolve stuff like a cell nucleaus and sex to live through it and alternative splicing to deal with the fact that all it's genes were damaged by selfish genetic elements that came from the guest. Integrating any later symbionts is still hard, but not nearly as hard.
It's possible that the first symbiosis that let to the origin of the eukaryotes is not a one in a billion years event, but one in a trillion or one in 10^20 years or ever rarer. That is it may be that in a billion planets with simple life forms only one "creates" complex life like animals. It can be the great filter that leads to the Fermi paradox.
E.g. I have solar panels and a home battery and pay less than a $100 a year for electricity.