Adrian Bowyer
No worthwhile human achievement has ever been instigated on the basis of demonstrable cost effectiveness.
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📍Europe
- It would be interesting if the census had "Kuturian" as the first option to see how many people selected a completely non-existant religion.
- Tomorrow, go out into the street wearing a high-vis jacket and tell people to do things...
- Reposted by Adrian BowyerHere’s an experiment for y’all with the kiddos. Always science
- I don't understand the economics of this. They're in financial trouble. But offering people a really reduced rate if they start to cancel CAN'T BE KEPT SECRET. Basically, all their subscribers will do this. $2/month is now what a Washington Post subscription costs.
- Reposted by Adrian BowyerSome terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)
- Just as mobile phones allowed developing nations to leapfrog landlines twenty years ago, now cheap solar, batteries and EVs are allowing them to leapfrog fossil fuel infrastructure. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
- Reposted by Adrian BowyerThe authors "estimate that by 2025, the Brexit process had reduced UK GDP per capita by 6 to 8 percent, investment by 12 to 18 percent, employment by 3 to 4 percent, and productivity by 3 to 4 percent. These effects grew gradually over time." www.nber.org/202602/diges... What a total disaster... 🇪🇺🇬🇧
- Reposted by Adrian BowyerChinese auto market reaches 51% EVs. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2025/08/29/e...
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- I've just chipped in a few quid. If you can afford to, please do so too. Ether way, please re-post.
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- Musk also claims it's an "insult to [Homer]". That would be the man described by Malcolm Bradbury a Greek author about whom we know almost nothing, or possibly someone else with the same name.
- Everything old is forgotten then rediscovered. This is just a procedural model. That is to say something invented in the 1970s. It was used, for example, for CGI in Star Trek II in 1982. I used it to make images of a fractal mountain range on my PC in about 1979. It was nothing special.
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- In the UK 133,000 hectares of agricultural land is used for bioenergy crops. If it was instead used for solar panels it would produce one fifth of the country's total electricity requirement. The bioenergy gives about one fiftieth...
- Watching classic western Winchester 73. Suddenly occurred to me that the time depicted was within living memory when the film was made.
- Just watching a thing on the Great London Smog of of 1952. I have no recollection of it ( I was six months old). But from now I wonder: didn't many people have gas masks left over from WW2?
- This is who runs this account.
- It's immediately obvious from this who needs to be replaced by AI.
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- A win against the not-enough-vowels candidate...
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- Reposted by Adrian Bowyer...they told her no, didn't they
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- Apparently in church when someone says "peace be with you" and shakes your hand you're supposed to reply "peace be with you" then pass it on. An actual Bishop in a church service to my daughter who was there with someone else: "Peace be with you." D (shakes hand): "Thank you very much."
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- Whereas Waymo's crash rate is about one fifth that of human drivers. I think the difference is Musk/Tesla's refusal to use lidar, which - as far as I can see - is some sort of ideological stance rather than an engineering decision. "Humans can get by with just vision, so so will our cars."
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- Not been following all that closely, but presumably every American citizen is required under penalty of imprisonment or street execution to attend a screening of this new movie then give a twenty-minute standing ovation at the end.
- Concur. I had one that failed and took it apart. It looked as if it was an eight-year-old's first printed circuit design and soldering practice.
- We are now moving into the era where downstream installers such as property developers don't put fossil into buildings simply because it costs so much more than electricity.
- These things go about 1,000 km/s, or 0.3% of the speed of light. Seems to me you might be able to use them to launch something light into space quite fast.
- You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space? Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭 youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps Processing: Simeon Schmauß
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- These economists seem different. But usually when economists predict what people will do, people turn out to do the opposite. Hom. sap. ≠ Hom. econ.
- This is insane! (ly dangerous) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCO...
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- I've been saying this for a long time*. Fossil infrastructure is designed assuming it will expand. As it contracts, bits of it will fail catastrophically and lead to failure cascades. Non-paywalled article: www.eurekalert.org/news-release... --- * Well. About three years.
- Allegation that geographer has liberal/pro-spherical-Earth bias...
- Or, as Time's AI has it, a "New Series About America's Fuonding".
- So two days ago a direct-debit at my bank paid my credit card bill, (which was large because of a new bathroom). So my credit card balance is now £0, not in debt at all. For decades I have paid the bill in full every month. 🧵1/2
- "It's not right that people who are well bear the costs of those who are ill." "It's not right that people without school-age children bear the costs of those who do." And so on. This is a libertarian-right argument, not a Labour one.
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- It's 9 am. Shortly I will get up. Then I will go to the shops with my wife. Then I will do some work. Then I will go for a brisk walk. Then I will have a leisurely and chatty lunch with my family.
- "I can't help feeling that people needing training on 'how to ask a question properly' is indicative of something broader going on here."
- I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
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