M4 earthquake up in the hills of Quebec

 

I was excited for a minute when the email said 'Southern Ontario', but it's in qc and who cares?  These earthquakes are a dime a dozen up there, and responding to isostatic uplift.  Doesn't look like anybody felt it.

AI (Artie) becomes as productive as the first desktop computers in corporations

 

I remember that day in the 80's when we gave up our greenscreen Unisys terminals for the first Windos machines.  Solitaire and email.  Soon endless emails with growing cc lists.  Everybody and their dog could create a big email, and/or newsletter.  All the managers had 5,000 emails in their inbox.

For engineers, the big impact was that we had to type and format our own reports.  Needless to say, we stopped doing them.  It was a major backward step for productivity.

Now, instead of emails, the Arties are creating endless code, which is all as much garbage as the email swamp.  The idiot cousin of the president can now say.  I generated this code in 5 minutes!  Use it.

This is now going to be like the Internet where English Majors can do geophysics, and promote carbon warming that is physically impossible.  We used to have a ban on 'Perpetual Motion Machines', but a huge following can bring them back.

So, Amazon can now lay off 20,000 programmers, because they can generate code 'for free'.  Arties now do all the customer service, and you cannot go to a human because you'll hurt their feelings. "What do you mean I'm not human?".

Obviously, I am implying that this fantasy cannot go on.  However, like all fantasies, they can go on for a long time.

Cold Smiles Upon Us

 Such a great desire not to post any more, but then this happy face from Coldland appeared.

You can use that as an emoji in endless discussions about when El No-no comes.

It doesn't matter for Toronto, because we have endless rain, but it is a question on how far it gets into the US.

You can look at this as a thing of majestic beauty.  How can the Ice Machine keep spinning?  What physics is at work?  We had 3 hours of nice weather yesterday.

ps the toronto weather forecast finally has this smile of death coming down on us in a week with -2 at night.