Japanese naval forces lose half of their number in battles with America.

This is a fairly sobering video, with alot of detail about the raid and the consequences of it.

About 100000 people died, 63% of the commercial district was destroyed.

I think one could argue that the war was already over, but to paraphrase one comment on the video "Japan was unwilling or unable to surrender".

This video puts the atomic raids into a different perspective. As has been noted before, the Tokyo raid killed more people than the Hiroshima raid.

This fellow's videos are always interesting and useful.

This is a very worthwhile course, that I've done myself. It's free to enrol in and complete. It's very video based.

The creator of the course has also written a book outlining the techniques to help you learn.

She learnt to speak fluent Russian and went and worked on a Russian vessel for a while, before realising that this wasn't really the life she wanted.

In the "dialup" stage of the AI era, how will learning/knowledge change? Fascinating to think about.

The Greek philosophers hated writing. Writing something down avoided wrestling with the idea first. There were apparently similar concerns from people who copied manuscripts when Gutenberg created the printing press.

The EXACT Moment I Stopped Fearing Dementia A large study shows that shingles vaccination will prevent the flair up varricella, which in turn leads to large amounts of plaque getting created in the brain.

First there was an observational study, then a clever study was done on a group of people in the UK who did and didn't have the shingles vaccination.

.. The summary is that high intensity exercise provides a 4 to 9 times multiplier to time spent doing normal low intensity exercise (like gentle walks).

Keep investments low when possible.

Redesigns will happen as the product gets into prod. Get this happening as early as possible.

Quality Control. Do these kinds of tests during dev so you can hopefully find issues early.

Logistics & Shipping: These can be a big cost.

(Below is an attempt to use the tesseract OCR tool to read an image grab of the text on the video image… but it didn't really work.) … I'll gradually clean this up over time.

Support infrastructure includes:

• Warranty claims
• Returns
• Spare parts
• Customer service
• Processes for handling defective units
• Budget for replacements
• Extra inventory

RPi 2350 < $1/chip in quantity. uController selector Tool

I think Google/Deepmind are at the top of getting AI useful and practical. They have a vertical too, with hardware and software to do AI. They will be able to use the current bubble to get future staff all trained up and ready for when their companies fold or are merged into Google.

There are a bunch of questions here around work, politics and how much power these AIs will give to bad actors. There is potential for calamities. Demis even says that it might take a medium size catastrophe to wake people up to what we need to do differently.

I really like that Demis was reading about the Industrial Revolution. I think that's good leadership.

Shane Legg is from NZ. Phenomenal general knowledge. Not very good at reasoning yet. ASI - Artificial Super Intelligence. AGI - Artificial General Intelligence. How does wealth in society get distributed. How does a post AGI world work?

Seems a bit more like a machine learning module?… It can use huge amounts of data though.

The author of the system was awarded the Nobel for his work. It looks to have truly transformed protein research.

This new style of model uses far less parameters than standard LLMs (0.6 Billion) and is able to quickly (pretty much in real time) work out what is going on in a video frame or image.

The "L" part of the acronym for the project means that the system is able to have querys in plain language passed to the model and it will answer in plain language after it's looked over the image.

Using LLMs with image capabilities for tasks like this is very slow, with the complete answer taking a relatively long time. VL-JEPA seems to be able to move around in an abstracted space, not needing to work within a context of tokens and language.

On Youtube, "A New Kind of AI is Emerging And Its Better than LLMs? does a great job of explaining the concept of the model and gives a pretty good demo of it working (there are misreadings of the images by the model, but it's pretty good on the whole).

This is best outlined by the Kurzgesagt video, 1000km Cable to the Stars.

There are libs for many languages to allow use of Raylib from them. It can compile to web assembly so the code can run on a web page.

This one is a winner.

It's very easy to do and takes only as long as the presenter says.

It's fun to add in bread improver and mixed fruit.

This video won't fit in so well with the Health section of this page…. :-\

This yet another sign of autocracy and fascism in the United States.

Simon gives some very good ways to fight this in the United States. Simon pushes the idea of acting locally to effect globally.

There is also an "Anti-autocracy Handbook". The techniques autocrats use and how to fight against them.

• Populism
• Polarization
• post-truth

Do not comply in advance or avoid talking about what you want to talk about. Be part of your community. Find ways to do acts of defiance, big and small. Dedicate yourself to following good sources of information. Avoid just emotional arguments.

Wonder what this is like in Australia?

To help the audience feel better, Simon correctly points out that "Tyranny requires constant effort". There are reasonable, intelligent people still trying to do the right thing in the United States. This Trump "regime" will eventually end.

The good and the bad of climate changes in 2025.

A useful video on textiles and their importance in human development.

Quite amazing. A company that builds factories that build houses. They aim to take make the task of housebuilding much more about assembly than construction. This removes the cost associated with hiring expensive tradesmen. Their aim is to solve the housing crisis in the US at the moment.

Hank Green is seen often in PBS Videos. I think this video is a bit of a "Who is Hank Green?" video.

It covers his views on science and how he does things.

Gary, a millionaire, argues that taxes should be raised.

Barry seems to be a fellow who is passionately explaining economics and how it effects the every day person.

These videos are great fun and quite informative.

It's interesting to look at the one about a modern Civil War happening in the US. They figure that it would largely be a whole lot of problems, pauses and shortages with much less out and out combat.

Follow the links to the rest of his videos. I think he's trying to be very compassionate and help people out who are trying to get through life.

In this one, I like where he says that life has a good amount of chance in it and there are buffs and bounces along the way…

This is a touch scary.

California's prime agricultural land is sinking, because farmers are drawing down too much water from aquifers under the farms.

They're not regenerating because there's less snow turning up on the nearby mountains.

Such a strange, yet lovely film.

Captures an impression of Saudi Arabia.

How ASML built the machine that builds chips with features at the 5 nm level.

Mind boggling.