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Improbably, the real bottleneck is energy.

> There aren't enough people who know Sumerian and Akkadian

one LLM is enough!


I'm really (honestly) waiting for the day when an LLM gets into the Akkadian and Sumerian texts and starts revealing extremely mind-blowing details to the world.

I truly believe we might one day, soon hopefully, see an LLM making observations about our history which blow open the horizon of humanities future.

Imagine, if you will, some of the secrets buried in these texts, revealing to us all just how it all began, and where things are headed.

In the grand context of galactic-scale civilizations, we might be in for some surprises ..


I’m not entirely sure why you’re downvoted. Though I don’t expect “ancient aliens” or anything of the sort, translating from A to B is literally what LLMs were invented for.

They’d be very, very good at reading, discerning, summarizing, etc, vast quantities of text like this.


They'd also be very good at halluzinating the most fascinating stories together. Unlike a for a coding agent with reproducible tests, it is hard for a history bot to verify it's finding.


I mean, even if or if not the ancient aliens things is in there, I’m pretty sure there are very wild things in there that will be equally enthralling.

I hope for example, that I live long enough to get an understanding of Rongorongo .. imagine the tales - or otherwise mundane details - we may some day extract from these immensely interesting human mysteries ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo

Disclaimer: I’m also a fan of Protong and would love to see LLM also look for a prototype tongue along a similar framework of artistic interpretation … without Szukalski’s baggage, of course …


Not sure what is mind boggling. The homo sapiens exists in the _current_ form ( physiologically and brain size, etc ) since at least 250k years. about 50k year ago abstract art was already in vogue.


Humor and jokes exist since the great apes!


No absolutely no. We were selling some electronic stuff on Amazon. We were doing good. But then this came, the registration that become mandatory, took 3 months instead of 3 weeks and then they had no rules and deleted saying our device is not the right category. We closed shop after spending time and money. The system is horrenduos and has not stopped the chinese stuff on the Amazon at all.


Did you store your Amazon listed product on Amazon in their warehouse or send it out from your home or from a supplier?


yes stored in their warehouse. But the law says I am a producer becase my logo and my registered brand is on the package.

The packaging issue is orthogonal to Amazon. they just apply the law.


As it should be! Amazon have little control over product packaging.

(But of course this article is right about the insane admin and cost requirements for small companies.)


I heard the raktajino is really good! Qapla'!


ooh, chatGPT is really good in filtering bullshit and recommending the products that really fit.

For serious stuff, is part of the shopping flow.


Batteries?

Starting this year, in Romania you cannot put new PV capacity online without the storage for it, is mandatory. Possibly for existing ones, but I am not sure.


Yes, absolutely colossal amounts of batteries though - what if it’s quite hot but also cloudy for 5 days in a row?

You either have to significantly oversize the PV (easier said than done, when its energy density is already not that high per m2), or have enough batteries to last for multiple days of full load. If you do the maths that’s a lot of batteries


>what if it’s quite hot but also cloudy for 5 days in a row?

The main idea is to then import power from somewhere sunny and/or windy or mountainous, using money you saved when they had the rain and you had the sun.

Batteries and other storage mechanisms will gradually reduce the need for doing so, but aiming to entirely eliminate all need for cooperation with others seems a bit paranoid.


They're being installed but it's going to take a while.


Much faster than any nuclear build though.


Sure, but it doesn't solve today's problem with the low Danube.


In Poland you cannot own big capacity storage because it makes you independent from the grid and Gov does not want that.

So you can have storage, but not too much, only as much to still be dependant on the grid.

See the hypocrisy here?


You are not allowed to have own PV and big capacity storage without connection to electric grid?


You cannot have big storage either way. Its normal to have two installations and be able to switch between them.

Not in Poland, because you are too independent.


The legislation was updated:

"According to the adopted act, devices with a capacity of up to 30 kWh are exempt from any construction procedures; only reporting to the grid operator (OSD) is mandatory. Those between 30 kWh and 300 kWh in a building and 30 kWh and 2000 kWh freestanding are obliged to prepare a land development plan and make fire safety arrangements."

https://renewablesnow.com/news/poland-adopts-rules-to-ease-e...


Mechanical ones so we aren’t left with a waste disaster in 10-20 years?


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