North Carolina’s plan to ban free EV charging is an environmental disgrace

Jun10
by on June 10, 2022 at 3:31 pm
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While the US federal government is moving towards standardizing fast-charging infrastructure and installing the first national network of chargers on highways, North Carolina might be going in the opposite direction. NC Representative Keith Kidwell, together with his colleagues, Reps. Ben Moss of Richmond County, Mark Brody of Union County, and George Cleveland of Onslow County, last week filed House Bill 1049 — one of the country’s most anti-EV bills to date. Titled “Equitable Free Vehicle Fuel Stations,” the proposal wants to remove free charging stations in North Carolina and ban EV charging on government property. That’s unless free gas and…

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Google sets new record for calculating pi — but what’s the point?

Jun09
by on June 9, 2022 at 9:39 pm
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Developers have set a new record in the endless quest to accurately calculate pi. A team led by Google Cloud’s Emma Haruka Iwao found 100 TRILLION digits of the mathematical constant — smashing the previous benchmark of 31.4 trillion. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Credit: Google Brainiacs have sought to extend Pi’s for millennia, but in recent years the digits have increased exponentially. Advances in computing are now causing records to regularly tumble. A 2019 milestone that was also set by Iwao was surpassed within months. That landmark was then overturned the next year,…

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An AI chatbot trained on 4chan has sparked outrage and fascination

Jun08
by on June 8, 2022 at 4:00 pm
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If you’re concerned about the biases and bigotry of AI models, you’re gonna love the latest addition to the ranks: a text generator trained on 4chan’s /pol/ board. Short for “Politically Incorrect,” /pol/ is a bastion of hate speech, conspiracy theories, and far-right extremism. It’s also 4chan’s most active board, accumulating around 150,000 daily posts. These attributes attracted Yannick Kilcher, an AI whizz and YouTuber, to use /pol/ as a testing ground for bots. Kilcher first fine-tunedthe GPT-J language model on over 134.5 million posts made on /pol/ across three and a half years. He then incorporated the board’s thread structure…

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