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  • We can already store electrons in a container, we call that a capacitor. You separate 2 conductive plates with a dielectric and then connect the plates to a voltage source to deposit electrons on one side and remove electrons from the other (creating a difference in electric potential). You can then disconnect the voltage source and you will have electrons in a bottle. When you connect those plates to another circuit, they will discharge. The more surface area you have, the more electrons you can store. Electrolytic capacitors tightly roll the conductors into a spiral for space efficiency.

    This cannot be used to gain any more energy than you used to put them all in there.

  • Will AI replace iOS devs? I am getting worried about the hype.
  • I think we've seen pretty much the limit of what LLMs can pretend to do. They can sort of spit out code snippets in a stack overflow kind of way, but are not capable of starting with a set of requirements and producing a complex program. Programming has never been about remembering all the syntax and having all the design patterns memorized, that's what documentation and search engines are for. Programming is engineering a complete, maintainable solution given a set of requirements.

    I do think LLMs will eat Stack Overflow's lunch as a source of quick code snippets for programmers to copy/paste.

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 1 - The faceless facilitators
  • In the studio task, did Rosie just completely fluke into the right answer with a vaguely plausible reason?

    Only time will tell, but I think she's dialed right into Alex's nerdy little jokes. If that continues she may well dominate.

  • NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
    www.nsa.gov NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

    FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.

    NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
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