M.S. Jackson
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Tweets mostly related to my live-action #AI 'SuperEntity' movie project. Storyboard-filmscript on website. Enjoy! #SciFi #Singularity #TheOracleMachine
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If anyone wants to watch my 1st movie - my practically-zero budget GIRL FROM NOWHERE - here's a link.
Enjoy! (Also available on Amazon Prime)
#filmmaking
#indiefilm
#undergroundfilm
#movies
#CapeTown
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Couldn't we try this at our
#CapeTown
stadium?
(fyi
@nickhedley
@geordinhl
@helenzille
@chrisyelland
@AntonEberhard
)
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Nice one
@CheckersSA
, Checkers Sea Point...
How does 1 kg of potatoes become 0.789 grams? (Ah, the joys of having a scale at home)
fyi
@wendyknowler
Hoping all consumers start checking weights
@PicknPay
@Shoprite_SA
@WOOLWORTHS_SA
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@geordinhl
@DIRCO_ZA
The ANC wouldn't let the Dalai Lama come for his good friend Archbishop Tutu's funeral, but they'll welcome a Russian oligarch & his super-yacht (the ultimate symbol of inequality)?
How low can they go?
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@gmt_88
@agaragorn
Reminds me of an interview I saw with Alfred Hitchcock. He tells how, to help his daughter doing a film course, he wrote an assignment for her on... the film work of Alfred Hitchcock. And received only a 60% mark for it. 😂
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@zbswanepoel
Damage to a road surface is proportional to weight cubed - we learned that in civil engineering 2nd year.
So, if a truck weighs 10x as much as a car, it causes 10^3 x as much damage. ie 1000x as much damage!
We desperately need more rail, to save our roads from truck damage.
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We hear a lot on
#Eskom
& if De Ruyter & co is up to the job, but what of the other side of the coin? NERSA. What are their qualifications? Are they really the best SA can get?
fyi
@AntonEberhard
@mybroadband
@BusinessLiveSA
@OUTASA
@chrisyelland
@helenzille
@mmarkovitz
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@ChristoThurston
As we used to love to say at school: 'kies jo kant en vak!' (Choose your side and subject)
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@alieninsect
I'm sure they are our archetypes - instincts so refined as to be autonomous personalities within us all, pulling our strings.
The Greeks knew them as Gods. We sometimes see them in our
#dreams
, & ignore them at our peril.
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@nextgentech666
@nickhedley
@CoruscaKhaya
The wind blows in winter. The sun also shines in winter. Northern Cape gets the most clear sunny days in the world - Upington gets on average 355 sunny days per year!
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@nickhedley
It would cost 'only' R2 billion to install 100,000 solar geysers (at R20k each), which may be the cheapest fastest way to reduce load on the grid - since these reduce home's power consumption by 50% or more! Let's do this!
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@OUTASA
If we think about how much tax we pay in SA... VAT, excise duties, income tax, not forgetting property taxes, capital gains etc...
then it becomes clear that even a small contribution to OUTA each month is such good value for money!
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@metaphorician
@DRMacIver
Yes, this is when I think many religions got stuck - when we started writing down
#mythologies
as religious doctrine, instead of letting these mythologies grow alongside us, as a reflection of our evolving consciousness(es).
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I don’t about you, but I get my best ideas off the screen, outside, on the mountain/beach, running/swimming/ hiking/ walking or even just in the shower.
So was interesting to hear
@hubermanlab
talking on states of wordlessness. Great podcast
@lexfridman
!
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Space Movie! Makes more sense to me than a Space Force, or celebrating joyrides of billionaires. Instead, this we can all share in enjoying.
#Space
@giopagliari
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@nickhedley
But nothing beats installing a solar geyser. They cost +-R15k, but can save you R5k/year, for 10 years+. A 30% return on investment, much better than the bank!
Spread the word - every new solar geyser is a win for SA. Less demand on the grid = less loadshedding.
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@jamesbridle
@guardian
But how do we know human intelligence isn't also just an accumulation & rehashing of existing knowledge?
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@nickhedley
Great news, but the skin colour & gender of the owner should be of no relevance. (I know it is currently important to some, but looking ahead... we already know there's no race but the human race. Skin tone & sex should not matter)
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"Microsoft says a trillion-parameter model could be scaled across as few as 800 Nvidia V100 GPUs"
#GPT3
had 175Billion parameters, but needed 10,000 GPU's, so this seems significant.
#MachineLearning
#NeuralNetworks
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@alvinfoo
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'Robots of the Revolution' no.004!
(Okay it's a bit of a dad-joke, but makes a point about
#AI
accountability &
#AIEthics
)
#tech
#cartoons
#Robots
#humour
#SelfDrivingCars
@NotMyRobots
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@DreemElon2
@rwang0
@BillMew
@eduardoriverosq
@rafaelmcortina
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@geordinhl
@Airbnb
Are you doing anything to protect aspirant Cape Townian homeowners from foreigners buying our best homes, staying overseas, but profiteering from AirBnB visitors?
Surely we need some kind of protection from foreign buyers makes our homes unaffordable? (They don't vote for you)
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@abelmike
@GovernmentZA
"...already been reports of intimidation against workers reporting for duty... Any industrial action at Eskom & essential services company is against the law.."
So where's the law enforcement
@GwedeMantashe1
?
@DeanMacpherson
@MadiBoity
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@IamLungile_
@nickhedley
Cheaper than coal! And sun & wind energy is free! And the battery makes a big difference. It's the way forward.
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@OUTASA
@GovernmentZA
I think you're doing some amazing work, and I think my tiny monthly contribution is such a value-multiplier. Please keep it up, and hoping many more will (financially) support the OUTA cause!
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The race to the bottom:
“U.S. forces will increasingly operate remotely crewed & autonomous systems across all domains — & let’s face it, our adversaries are doing the same,” O’Donnell said"
#drones
#AIEthics
#AI
@harari_yuval
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'Robots of the Revolution' No.005 - The Turing Test 2030?
#Robots
#Tech
#Singularity
#AI
#cartoons
@rafaelmcortina
@romanyam
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@NotMyRobots
@bengoertzel
@rwang0
@cybe_rpunkfixer
@BillMew
@eduardoriverosq
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Wool you believe it,
#solar
is the baa'est!
"They found that the sheep on pasture with solar panels spent more than 70 per cent of their time under the panels and grazed 8 per cent more than those on land without solar panels."
@nickhedley
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Killer-robots!
#AI
in the fields!
#robots
#Sustainability
#tech
#farming
@Nicochan33
@enricomolinari
@alvinfoo
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If you care for the planet, please boycott
#Shell
!
After trying to frack our water-scarce Karoo, they're now intent on seismic blasting in the precious Wild Coast, threatening whales, dolphins & much more.
@Seaspiracy
@Seasaver
@seashepherd
@Greenpeace
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'Robots of the Revolution': No.003
A creationist machine! (The Real Turing Test?)
#AI
#Robots
#Evolution
#MachineLearning
#cartoonist
@Nicochan33
@BillMew
@rwang0
@nigewillson
@transhumanismAU
@rafaelmcortina
@eduardoriverosq
@SFRuminations
@ShiCooks
@cybe_rpunkfixer
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Your TV is watching you.
Today, it's big corporate grabbing your
#data
.
How soon until it's big government?
(And could corporates & governments merge, if that hasn't already begun?)
#bigbrother
#dystopian
#DataPrivacy
@CarissaVeliz
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@lexfridman
@magicdmw
@instagram
My instagram was hacked, someone started posting stupid pictures, and Instagram wouldn't suspend my account. So no, in my humble opinion, engineers at IG are NOT amazing at all.
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"we’ve discovered galaxies as mature as our own in what was previously understood to be the dawn of the universe."
Uh-oh... The more we discover, the less we know?
Meanwhile, at a restaurant on the other side of the universe...
(
@giopagliari
)
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@MaxduPreez
No, not all.
Yes, eradicate pines in the water catchment areas.
But bear in mind:
a) blue gums shown to provide vital habitats for declining bee colonies and,
b) above Clifton they actually stop fires, with the barren ground beneath them, & stop boulders coming down too.
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"Last year,
#DeepMind
published the protein structures for 20 species – including nearly all 20,000 proteins expressed by humans – on an open database. Now it has finished the job, & released predicted structures for more than 200m proteins"
#AI
#AlphaFold
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Presenting 'Robots of the Revolution' No.006!
- Seems a good day for a nod to Elon...
#tech
#Teslabatteryday
#tesla
#SelfDrivingCars
#AI
@BillMew
@rwang0
@rafaelmcortina
@DreemElon2
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@AJNaddell
@eduardoriverosq
@RobMcCargow
@IanLJones98
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@brodiegal
@GreatDismal
Shell was also for many years trying to frack South Africa's Karoo desert, an extremely water sensitive area. Environmental activists have managed to hold them off, for now.
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@amyalkon
@justinbaragona
Someone please explain to me: If the doctrine of the Old Testament is 'an eye for an eye', then by what right does Israel seemingly pursue '20x eyes for an eye'?
Or has Israel now forsaken the word of God?
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"the company (Clearview) has already made deals... and pitched... its “unconventional databases” for “extreme opposition research”
#FacialRecognition
#AI
@Nicochan33
@TechFears
@IanLJones98
@JOSEPER02102059
@nigewillson
@sallyeaves
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@djrothkopf
I disagree. WW3 could happen. China is watching events in Ukraine closely, and this will strongly influence whether China invades Taiwan, & forms an alliance with Russia.
The (free) World must do all it can to quickly end the Ukrainian conflict!
@MaxduPreez
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Robots of the Revolution - no.002
(A wry look at life after the
#AI
#Robot
Revolution...)
#tech
#cartoons
@rafaelmcortina
@andrewwcox
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@BillMew
@rwang0
@eduardoriverosq
@RobMcCargow
@cybe_rpunkfixer
@ChurchoftheSim
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A generator to pump sewage away from the sea shore during load-shedding, but... no one to turn it on, on a Sunday?
Welcome to the wonderful City of Cape Town...
(video by "Dave the dolphin whisperer")
@MaxduPreez
@nickhedley
@geordinhl
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Coming soon to a battlefield near you: 'suicide
#drones
'
"can spend 120min in the air then head to a target at 150km/h (93mph) before detonating"
#AIEthics
#AI
@Nicochan33
@RobMcCargow
@rwang0
@Hana_ElSayyed
@nigewillson
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@JeroenBartelse
@StartupSelfieCo
@SpirosMargaris
@Paula_Piccard
@mvollmer1
@PawlowskiMario
@jblefevre60
@Nicochan33
@ShiCooks
@FrRonconi
Awesome! Either go back in that, or try this flying bathtub...
This man just went
#shopping
in a flying bathtub!
🎥
@TheSun
@ShiCooks
@Victoryabro
@Dahl_Consult
@LavaletteAstrid
@NutritiousMind
@fogle_shane
@baski_LA
@RagusoSergio
@postoff25
@DrJDrooghaag
@sps123star
@star95011
@RitupaGhosh
#innovation
#NewNormal
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As one who struggles to draw consistent (& decent) faces... this is an incredible tool (though also feels like cheating?) Definitely will impact
#storyboarding
.
#filmmaking
#illustration
#comicbooks
#GraphicNovel
The latest version of the
#AI
-based framework StyleGAN2 by
@nvidia
, promises to generate a seemingly infinite number of portraits in an infinite variety of painting styles.
👇
v/
@80Level
#MachineLearning
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"using latest
#AI
methods - graph
#NeuralNetworks
, developed to analyze social networks; adapting them to... biological patterns.. The cells.. comparable to social groupings.."
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@RobMcCargow
@IanLJones98
@j2bryson
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#Drone
warfare.
"...
#Aerorozvidka
’s way of fighting, as the future of warfare, in which swarms of small teams networked together by mutual trust & advanced communications can overwhelm a bigger & more heavily armed adversary."
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Many solar panels run on 22% efficiency. So 32% is about a 50% improvement - many solar farms could produce about 50% more energy for the same size installation. Incredible. Solar keeps on improving. (fyi
@nickhedley
)
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@OUTASA
@TheCitizen_News
It's a start, but municipal officials need to be held personally accountable to some extent, otherwise the fine is simply passed on to the ratepayers!
Looking forward to similar action one day in Cape Town, where we dump raw sewage into our sea.
#BayOfSewage
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T.O.M. pg 060
Characters are not supposed to be likeable to everyone, but true to themselves.
#storyboards
#indiefilm
#AfricanSciFi
#Scifi
#AI
#screenwriting
#TheOracleMachine
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@JournoJane
Spread the word. Such slaughter is a crime against
#biodiversity
!
Of all mammals left (by mass), only 4% are wild. The rest is livestock & humans...
Shame on
#Denmark
#sustainability
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Competition leads to innovation! (I'm sure
#ElonMusk
will agree?) I thought
#Toyota
were pursing the hydrogen fuel cell, but I guess they're big enough to pursue everything.
#ElectricCars
#battery
#capacitors
#Tesla
#futurology
@Nicochan33
@rwang0
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@JohnBerman
@poroshenko
Yes, Putin's likely mad, and with his finger on the trigger of about 6000 nukes, this is everyone's problem!
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@nickhedley
“...in terms of equity targets...we need to be focusing on who is the best person for the job, because those are the ones who should be fixing what needs to be fixed, regardless of how they look.”
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@ylecun
@JrKibs
@geoffreyhinton
But is there really a difference, if the pool of 'answerable questions' is large enough? Surely if we reach the point where a machine can answer 'every single question ever asked', this is in effect no different to having a world model within?
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@DailyInvestorSA
No race but the human race. Why must kids born after 1994 be punished with Apartheid-era race groupings, when they never voted for Apartheid? We don't punish kids for alleged sins of parents.
Celebrate your heritage, but no one has the right to tell another what race they are.
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@Zigbot8867
@LostInFilm
@kalippism
It's the evolution of human
#consciousness
. Begins with early humans gaining awareness - albeit via a mysterious symbolic block - & ends with a human fighting a conscious AI before transcending to a new evolution level. (I think 'star child' is mentioned in Biblical
#mythology
)
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@NevilleGaunt
@SuziLDavis
@FrRonconi
@NutritiousMind
@Dkell999
@LoriMoreno
@CurieuxExplorer
@KaiGrunwitz
@avrohomg
@TylerCohenWood
@bynsny
@IanLJones98
@fogle_shane
@marilise77
@tgravel
@treasadovander
@ravikikan
@postoff25
@psb_dc
@vanillaweb
@thoughtprovoke4
@advancingyou
@Hana_ElSayyed
@enricomolinari
@BetaMoroney
@Earthles
@CoachAshuKhanna
@KenHerron
Perhaps sometimes we forget 'feed-back' is supposed to be like giving 'food back', i.e. nourishing?
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@chestermissing
Athlone should be the city centre in Cape Town - it's crying out for more development, is close to everyone, has fewer transport constraints, and then people won't have to travel so far to work.
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I agree that many in
#tech
perhaps can be more aware of the great responsibilities they now carry for the majority (ie. the non-tech world), who will have to enjoy, or suffer... the creation of
#AI
.
#AIEthics
@nigewillson
@sallyeaves
@IanLJones98
@Nicochan33
@RobMcCargow
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Presenting 'Robots of the Revolution'!
A wry look at when
#AI
#robots
have replaced most of us.
I'll make a new 1 each week. Just having fun & seeing if it'll spark interest in my TOM project.
@nigewillson
@ipfconline1
@Nicochan33
@BillMew
@kuriharan
@rwang0
@PawlowskiMario
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@nickhedley
Nick - let's start with schools. They have:
a) large roof space
b) usually some security that can protect panels
c) larger installations than homes, so enjoy benefits of scale + simpler to connect to grid - so a good starting point
d) corporate sponsors might be keen to help?
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@steenekampcarl
@go2Michelle
Been pushing for years - but CoCT threatened to sue us for this film - for 'damages to city's reputation' - never-mind that city officials last year admitted the effluent was 'obviously raw'.
(And officials have solutions - like 'membrane bioreactors')
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"...
#MachineLearning
models aren’t being used to process large amounts of
#data
, rather... to integrate particle symmetries, & the inclusion of these attributes within a model means... computations... done more quickly"
@nigewillson
@ipfconline1
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@Eddie_NYC
@funder
Glad you included 'Raising Arizona' - that gem gets overlooked far too often.
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More developments in
#Neuromorphic
computing - "machinery based on circuitry that involves strong electrical spikes, like the biological brain's operation"
#Intel
#AI
#MachineLearning
@nigewillson
@ipfconline1
@JeffCHawkins
@steveom
@BrainstormingN
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Fascinating. "using games like Diplomacy to study the emergence & detection of manipulative behaviors… to make sure we know how to mitigate such behaviors in real-world applications"
An
#AI
ambassador!
@IanLJones98
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@DrJDrooghaag
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@Fabriziobustama
@tamasakitamasak
@IntEngineering
@EliseQuevedo
@smoothsale
@JolaBurnett
@DrJDrooghaag
@debraruh
@mvollmer1
@ShiCooks
@Nicochan33
@LoomiAssistant
Meanwhile, the world is drowning in plastic.
"They found that the birds, which feed on river insects, were eating about 200 pieces of plastic a day. These were mostly fibres, and a quarter were larger than 500 microns."
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"Feed-in tariffs for residential generation in Cape Town expected in 2024"
Is
@geordinhl
just another politician, big on talk, but slow on action?
Residential feed-in was due in '23? And the cheaper feed-in devices he promised?
@nickhedley
@chrisyelland
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#AI
#facialrecognition
a little restricted now in the USA, but what about the rest of the world? What about South America? What about Africa?
fyi
@CarissaVeliz
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@ZemTimbela
@nickhedley
Help me here, I don't understand why some fear privatisation. Toyota is private. So is KFC, Nandos, Checkers, Pick'nPay, SAB, CocaCola, MTN, Google, Apple, DSTV, Orlando Pirates, taxi operators etc. Everything that still works is private. So why not have private electricity too?
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"200kg Camcopter
#drones
... with a carbon fibre skin & 3D-printed titanium parts, are more than 3 m long & can operate remotely at... up to 200 kms... in continuous flight for 6 hrs... 3x longer than a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter."
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@rinmor
@ivan2meyer
@Our_DA
Especially in Cape Town, where home solar generators have to pay registration fees, grid connections fees, & are given tiny feed-in prices compared to what CoCT charges?
So why not make rather make a shining showcase of Cape Town? Otherwise pledges like this ring hollow...
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@alieninsect
I do call them Gods/spirits etc. I'm a huge fan of of
#Jung
, who talks in this fashion. (Have you read his seminal 'Red Book'? Quite a trip.)
I don't think it in any way detracts from archetypes - after all I believe it was Jung who really made the term 'archetypes' famous.
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"researchers say the artificial neural system is imitating something like a conscious biological response"
#consciousness
#NeuralNetworks
#AI
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@yasmeenbrain
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T.O.M. pg 071
Because every movie concerning dreams needs a few good dream-sequences.
#storyboards
#indiefilm
#AfricanSciFi
#AI
#Dreams
#artificialintelligence
#screenplay
#writing
#film
#drawings
#webcomics
#Scifi
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I've said it before - any
#AI
super-intelligence (that we create) would surely quickly take-off & leave us all behind?
#Robot
#Overlord
#Singularity
@RobMcCargow
@nigewillson
@Nicochan33
@ChurchoftheSim
@SebastianMaki
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BREAKING...
CoCT to be forced to re-run (run) public participation process, for Minster's re-appraisal of permits for our 3 Marine Outfalls dumping effectively-raw sewage in our Cape Peninsula Marine Park.
Thanks NSRI, ActionSA's
@go2Michelle
& co!
fyi
@nickhedley
@geordinhl
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@Bat_Yann
@SustainTrends
@Fridays4future
@parents4future
@parents4futureG
@artists4future
@Psychologists4F
@sunrisemvmt
@ExtinctionR
I grew up in the 70's, as a kid strongly keen on the 'Save the Whales' movement - we had the bumper sticker - and heard talk about Greenhouse gasses then, so maybe never a single moment.
Or maybe it was this incredible 'Barba Papa's Ark' 1974 book...
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@nickhedley
The mess-up is equity targets demand you employ say 9 'blacks' for 1 'white'.
But if (thanks to Apartheid) you've only 6 suitable dark candidates, then you must pay more or drop standards. But your foreign competition have no such constraints. This is the crisis for business.
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"
#technology
is developing very rapidly, possibly exponentially. But people are linear. When linear people are faced with exponential change, they’re not going to be able to adapt to that very easily. So clearly, something is coming…"
#AI
#AIEthics
#bias
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@naylor83
@newscientist
I'm fascinated by the global media-omicron freak out.
Here in South Africa, 3 weeks in, our hospital admissions are really very low.
In fact, lower than 'between the peaks' of previous waves, despite infections at record levels...
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@FrRonconi
@DigitalTrends
@alvinfoo
@chboursin
@mvollmer1
@NevilleGaunt
@JoannMoretti
@Fabriziobustama
@DigitalColmer
@kalydeoo
@labordeolivier
@DrJDrooghaag
@WSWMUC
@AudreyDesisto
@enricomolinari
@AkwyZ
Uh-oh... Here's a semi-drone?
#Drone
copters, the
#flying
#car
of the
#future
?
🎥 techilad (IG)
@LIFTAircraft
@Julez_Norton
@Droit_IA
@Fabriziobustama
@PawlowskiMario
@MargaretSiegien
@labordeolivier
@baski_LA
@gvalan
@smaksked
@BahSerign
@mary_gambara
#EmergingTech
#transport
#airtravel
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"...new speed test data shows that
@elonmusk
's Starlink is so far ahead of the competition it's not even fair."
"It seems that as
#SpaceX
continues to launch more
#satellites
in to low-Earth orbit (LEO), the network is only getting stronger."
@giopagliari
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