As I read a lot of interesting articles online and found an intriguing one this morning, thought I’d create a topic to discuss them.
Please, serious articles only with no politics or deliberately provocative articles as I don’t want this to degenerate in a slanging match.
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In similar vein Covid vaccination may well cut all cause mortality
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Another VERY interesting article today.
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With the number of deep, disused tin mines in that area, a practical and cost effective geothermal solution would be enormous!
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Yes, I saw this this morning but only skimmed it as I’d read about this before when it was being proposed and then built. As a power production facility it’s pretty small, but the really interesting thing is the lithium extraction. Very high purity lithium carbonate can be produced from the extracted brine in a much easier and less process intensive way than traditional methods, and the amounts available from the granite layer are huge.
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I thought they were trying to wash lithium out of the water as well.
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Yes they are. The article does mention that and I would think it’s a lot more lucrative than the energy production. I think it’s essentially a happy by product and is probably been added because it’s economic to do so and creates another revenue stream whilst they get the lithium production online.
The irony about all the many waste tips from the tin and kaolin mining in Cornwall is that they contain huge amounts of lithium ores, which at the time were worthless. Although they have already effectively been extracted from the ground, the collection and extraction of the lithium could be problematic.
Another, more quirky article from the same source.
Was mentioned on Radio 4 this morning too.
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Breaching/Hacking AI Models…
This article is interesting - stealing learnings from one model to put it into another…
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One of the main points of AI is plagiarism IMO.
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I read this fascinating article this morning on differences in capacity and type of imagination. While my imagination of experiencing unbuilt designs, visually, acoustically, even by touch, has been developed through training and experience, I cannot recreate a frame by frame sequence. It fascinates me that some can….
“Living with hyperphantasia: ‘I remember the clothes people wore the day we met, the things they said word-for-word”
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The entire point of most AI is plagiarism, certainly where textual information scraped from the Internet is concerned.
And to a large extent in the fields of photos and videos too.
I shun all of it, apart from the minor AI photo repair features inside Photoshop, whose AI engine is trained on images that Adobe have licensed and paid for from their stock contributors, so at least permission for their use has been sought and some recompense made.
My OH can remember every single thing I’ve ever said or done wrong 
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I empathise!
Interesting that there’s a name for this condition now. Reading the article I reckon it applies to me. I have described incidents to friends who ask’ “How do you remember this stuff?” I reply that I have ‘a video clip’ of the it running in my head.
Sometimes a clip will pop into my head, day or night, out of nowhere. Could be decades ago, something banal but I live it all over again. Some of these - many of these ! - are disturbing insofar as they may be the occasion I made a stupid mistake. They can be so real and vivid as to be distressing.
Like the person who remembered his history lessons by drawing them on wallpaper, the only way I could pass ‘AO’ Maths - half way between 'O’Level and ‘A’ Level as the introduction to differentiation - was to imprint the formulae as visual images in my mind. I then substituted the data in the question. A bit like ‘painting by numbers’, only maths.
Maybe this effect is why I got 100% in ‘Shapes, signals and lights’ in the RYA ‘Offshore Skipper’ exam. Helpful with Morse, too, which we had to do back in 1985.
I did the RYA theory exam (evening classes) about 1975 and did not do nearly as well!
Our Shipping Forecast recording, for to draw up yer synoptic chart, produced a ridiculous ‘dart board’. Waiting for the results, in the classroom, we all told each other the same story - and predicted mass failure.
But no! We all passed because the ‘ridiculous dart board’ was indeed the shipping forecast for the notorious Fastnet Race of '79.