curious things, Tag

Jonathan Cohler, David Legates, Franklin Soon, and Willie Soon, steer xAI's Grok 3 beta to produce what they call. FIRST-EVER [AI produced] peer-reviewed climate science paper,

Desalination today provides potable water to billions of people worldwide, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and other Middle Eastern countries leading the way...

Avoid California, where even our squirrels are vicious killers. Our animal welfare agents wouldn't dare to take them on

Okay it is chatbots that know they are biased, not all of AI. But these days the headlines are all about “AI” and they really just mean these chatbots that emulate reading to an amazing degree, so I go with the flow....

If AI can do our basic research, that would be extremely useful. It would free us up to do other things, like thinking and more advanced research, or even relaxing a bit. Stay tuned.

The prettier the birds are the more we have killed them or imprisoned them.  Some species have been lucky – they can be captive bred relatively easily, like canaries and parakeets and many smaller parrots, thus wild populations...

Such mountain wave turbulence can be extreme.

A troublesome incident for sure. A ‘perfect storm’ of events seems to have come together.

Eco-friendly brake cables are being eaten by foxes, after manufacturers switched from petroleum-based insulation to soy, forcing owners to wrap their cars in tarpaulins.

As most of us know, coyotes are fantastically adaptable – they can live almost anywhere they can find food – and ‘coyote food’ is nearly every- and any- thing small enough or slow enough to catch, alive or dead. ...

But, surprisingly, this technology is also very, very good at parsing, responding to, and writing “natural language” (e.g., English).

After all the news of Gemini’s biases this week I thought I’d give it a try, not of image generation which is currently disabled, but a conversation similar to my…

Over the last few days there have been a few interesting general news items touching on topics that I have covered here in the past: Wolves, Oroville Dam, Great Salt Lake..  I’m just going to mention them, with my opinions,...

It was a little past 1 AM on February 3rd, 1959 when American musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa

Counting manatees is exceptionally difficult.  They spend their time under murky sluggish waters,  often have green moss on their backs the same color as the water itself and if congregating, tend to swim above and below...