Cottage Report - May 15, 2026 Long Weekend

 Today is Stagnation Day.  Totally freezing yesterday, and now hot.

Starting the shots.  Just buds on the oak trees.  No wind.

For Toronto, the big question is whether L'arc du Cold can get down to us.  It's a big one, and poor Edmonton.  For Toronto and the cottage, we can now count on the water to help us.

ps warm and sunny.  lots and lots of blackflies.  We are happy in our new bug tent.

ps on the wind video, we have a full Arctic Ice Machine Vortex formed.  We can only hope it has a short life.

ps pure sun, no wind, and blackies.  Absolutely the worst, worse if you wanted to touch that ice water.

ps and the water is a cosy 55F, or 13C.

Clear Sailing for the Good Ship Stagnation

 

This is Stagnation in Action.     This Pacific is Dead.  

We have an Arctic Arc forming, but there is nothing behind it.  Maybe it will continue the Edmonton Endless Snowstorms.  I'm not looking at Europe, which is a popsicle.

A messy swirl in the Arctic.  The Toronto weather forecast looks standard 70's - Click, Bang, it's hot.

Since everybody is jumping off the Climate Train, expect some desperation moves.

ps cbc damps down the anxiety, but goes on and on about clange.

Artie - Part 3 - The Big Con

 One of the most important things for Arties is how you digest the input before you shove it in.  You must turn a face into a bunch of measurements, and you break up speech by the Large Language Model.  I would say "I'm having a conniption fit.", and the 'digester' breaks it up into nouns, verbs, etc.

Along the way, something amazing happened.  Take a billion dollars and set up a huge AI centre, illegally read every book in the world, and suddenly you have something that can have a chat.  Add more billions, and get pictures and videos.

Now, like all English Majors, you see a trend and extrapolate it in a straight line to infinity.  He who throws in the most billions wins the whole banana!

Just like climate change, you forget all about scaling, even though it was scaling that got you there.  To figure out the end of this, you have to go to physics.

I am not going to physics, because nobody does this.  Just imagine the worst possible end for all this, and that's what's going to happen.

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