Michael Plank

Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, NZ. Fellow @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. Math modelling in biology and epidemiology. Bicycles make the world a better place. He/him math.canterbury.ac.nz/~m.plank/
Joined August 2023
  • Petition to replace electric heaters with in-house servers that can, in cold weather, be put at the disposal of tech giants for reasonable rates. Free heating and less power demand - win win!
    • From a thermodynamic point of view, I know that an electric heater cannot be consuming any more or less energy than a computer network that does billions of calculations, runs a large language model, and as a by-product gives out that same amount of heat. But can I still find it extraordinary.
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