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Interesting. I did a quick Google search, and the link below is their "What we do" link on their website. What we do I started at their main page and ended up with this one because the first rule of investing is to understand how a company makes their money. After skimming this one, I still don't know. After searching some of their claims this might be a technology kind of thing for drone telemetry. That said, what they really seem to be good at is spitting out a bunch of word salad that sounds like it came from a breeding mistake between a used car salesman, a marketing shyster, and enough tech words mixed in to make it look legit.

Today at Davos Larry Fink's comments should be of note.

Funny, as we speak, our future is being planned over in Davos, Switzerland by the people who run the world.

More on AI in schools. I ran across this at another site and found it interesting. Video from a teacher, and a test from 1895 to compare to today. The test below is from a page at NASA. Title; Eighth-Grade Final Exam from 1895 Eighth-Grade Final Exam from 1895

Electric is one of those FAFO kind of things.

This could go here or the AI thread, but I'll go here. I was at a party last night and talked a good buddy who lives around Columbus, Ohio. He's in the cement business, and one of their projects right now is a data center. He's not at the site, but did visit so he did see the operation. I didn't get as many details as I would like... it is after all a party. What I did find out, and found interesting, he said they had 8 class 8 size trucks (semi's you might call them) that were diesel powered generator's running 24/7 to power this puppy. I don't know how big, and don't remember if I asked. What we don't know, and he wouldn't as a concrete contractor, if this power was an addition to what might be Ohio AEP, who might supply power as well. I think that's pretty wild. I would like to know more so you could calculate, or make a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) how much it costs to to power all this stuff. Related, and I live in Ohio. I just made a deal with a couple of energy companies (gas & electric) in the attempt to save a little money on those bills over the next year. I have 4 years of electric bill data broken down by kWh in a spreadsheet. It has only gotten more expensive (in various ways) but the basic price per kWh has been on a steady climb. These things are part of the reason why. Energy. It's what makes the world grow. Then there is the EROEI thing.

More on this from Bloomberg Law; Trump’s 401(k) Home Buyer Idea Requires Retirement Rule Shifts

The funny part is people arguing they shouldn't be able to do this. It's your money, you should be able to do whatever you want with your own money.

It seems one of the new things here in Cornhole is trivia. Couple of different flavors, one in the middle of the town that has now grown to ballroom size with over a hundred people doing general style, or in my case, a ****hole bar doing music trivia. You get a team (no money involved) and each team puts an app on their phone. You create a team name and get hooked up with the trivia guy who keeps score. You get points for a correct answer, and more points for being the fastest. The trivia guy sits somewhere with a mic and speaker. He plays a song over his speaker and through the app you play the game. It loads a full screen of the alphabet. This competition was based on 70s, 80s, 90s music. He would play 15 seconds of a song, and as soon as you know who the artist is, you hit the letter of the first letter of the name of the band. After the 15 seconds, he would tell how many teams got it right, who the band was, and who was the fastest. He did around 25 songs, took a ten minute break (bathroom, cig, joint :-)), then did another session, this time one hit wonders. Another break, then you had to do the first letter of the name of the song. That was tough. Then one more for band name. Probably total close to 80 songs over the course of the night. Started at 6:30, done by 8:30. They had around 40 people, and 10 teams or so teams. I sat with a couple musician buddies of mine, who both played in bands over the years. We got smoked. It's amazing how fast some of these people were. No matter, it was a ball. I haven't had that much fun since the hogs ate my brother.

I'm working on an art type project where two of us are trying to combine a 2D etching type thing and 3D printing. We have made some parts and proven the design enough to go forward. It's just like bringing products to market as a manufacturing company, just a smaller scale. I used the AI stuff to help me with things that are not in my wheelhouse. I was impressed with what it came up with, especially if I gave it better instructions. Then, after we did some testing, we found out what AI told us (my Aussie buddy) didn't work for ****. I immediately told it so, and we went a different direction. We will see going forward. I have really tried to give it as much information up front so it can give me better results. At the end of the day, I see this as nothing more than a souped up search engine.

Coming from someone who just left the academic field and fully retired, did your school have any rules about how to use AI? I think the type of class matters, so there is that. Mine was no way no how AI was going to do it. But we had meetings and emails about how to handle AI in the classroom. They still let us teachers do their thing unless they did something stupid. So I could control my classroom. As far as how to grade - that's easy. I went with a simple A-F thing. 100 to 70. Below 70, you flunk. Simple, easy, and at the end of the semester you know what they can do anyway, and if they can't, or can, you give them the grade they deserve. They know this up front, from day one. I also weighed the assignments (16) to be more punitive later in the semester. That said, our educational system is a ****ing joke.

I think he left because he knows he can't fix things. Their OL sucks. Their main WR is a head case. They spend too much money on an over-aged defense that didn't perform, and likely won't in the future. The OC play calling is awful. Their QB if he comes back, is over the hill and can't move behind a line that can't block. Tomlim probably knows next year will be worse and so will the boo birds. I don't blame him.

I don't have the exact size of the track, but based on what I have found, the size is around 1/6 mile, and given the lap times it averages out from mid-sixties to mid-seventy MPH. They keep a board somewhere that keeps track of "flips" which are many. They also have a designated fighting area for those who wish to partake. Busy place. Ages range from 14 to 70 for the competitors.

I'm not sure what this poly market stuff is and how it works, but I've heard about it. It appears to be another way to bet/gamble on "things" and it also seems to be used as a predictor of some sort type of thing. I wonder if the fact we've wanted attack Iran since at least when John McCain was a singer is priced in?

For a change of direction... This thread is usually about the F1 circuit, which I have great respect for. But here is another window into racing. No matter what they have, people will race it, and no matter where. They call it the Chili Bowl. The below clip is from Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A 440,000 sq/ft building that is half pits, and half track. They bring in truck loads of dirt to build the track. It's about a 1/6 mile oval. The event runs Monday to Saturday. 400 entries. The cars are called midgets. Custom built Toyota or Honda engines mounted in a tube chassis, big money. The event features NASCAR drivers Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell who both have won the event (before anyone knew who they were), along with many well known dirt racers in the country, if you follow that kind of stuff.