Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs AI (sic)
harimus.github.io//2024/05/31/...
Focus on the wildly different processing between unconscious brain capabilities and LLM trained models

So, are Chester Zoo just entering the hotel market?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lg3www8y9o
or are they going to let the animals view the humans in their lodge habitat?
Feeding, possibly copulating and maybe feeding their young. The first symmetric zoo experience?

Our new UK government continues to disappoint

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Does this mean they do not believe in the drive to net zero? Do they not think they can deliver the electricity generating capacity and infrastructure? Are they just incompetent wimps?

We conclude our look at some of our favourite discoveries of the 2024 season with the incised entrance orthostat in Structure Twenty-Seven.

On 5 January 1769, James Watt obtained his first British patent (No. 913) for his “New Invented Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam and Fuel in Fire-Engines” (steam engines). #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a...

As a long term fan (and childhood user) of logarithms and (later) sliderules I was delighted to see that Charles Petzold has started an on-line book on the subject
www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2025/0

Perfect: "The day when a private member’s bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people took its first step to becoming law. When some men and women of faith tried to imagine making laws for those of no faith."

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The Secret Diary of Elon Musk, Aged 13 3/4