The physics of artificial intelligence

 I call it Artie, instead of AI, because that just looks like Al, to me.  

This is a physics question, in a land without physics.  Good article to read.

You set up a grid of switches that can turn off or on, depending on input, and you train it.  You work blind.  My hypothesis says there is a lot of wave dynamics involved, because I like wave dynamics.

The experiment sets up the switches so they give an optical signal when activated.  You put in an image, and then a wave pattern shows up, most likely with interference.  It produces a response and you zap it, or give it cookies.  It lays in a permanent pattern, and responds correctly the next time.

With wave dynamics, you can explain actual neuron behaviour, and the Artie hallucination problems.  Same thing happens with the human brain, but we put in a ton of impulse control.  Don't you stand at a cliff and want to jump?  Not really, that's an impulse from your inner brain and you swat it down like a fly.

Sooner or later, people will understand this with the Arties, and life gets better.  

The other problem is what I said before, is that that this lowers the barriers for idiots.  Just like massive emails, bogus spreadsheets, and endless stupid powerpoints, this allows reports.  This was the last barrier, since idiots couldn't write anything.  I shudder to think what my life in cubicle-land would have been with this crap.  Can we build a real nuclear plant?  No, because now you can't separate the idiots.

ps so all the work goes to consultants who have all the brains out getting money, and making phoney promises.  The work all goes to lowest-level workers.  However, now they can replace them with Artie, and we'll have nuclear power plants designed by arties, and no idea about the physics.  I love it!

ps the nice thing about the old candu plants is that the hard part was getting the stupid thing to fizz.  With the modern enriched plants, the hard thing is to get them to stop, and you don't have to get to that until an emergency, which you can convince yourself will never happen.

Steady cold pouring down

 Do you like that fog in Toronto?  This is the weather of the mid-60's, when you couldn't drive the roads up north a bit.  

This time, the US west is getting some cold.  Better than a stagnant furnace drought.

The slow march of cold means a lot of snow and rain.  They can last the summer drought.

ps the weather forecast shows this cold continuing down the west to the coast.  It's a big sucker.  Also, the cbc does an article on the NS drought, and it's gone today.  They never do an article on that.

False El Nino declaration expected any day now

 

This is the world chart.  It showed all our recent heating events, but does not show 2024.

This is the tropics chart and it is zooming, but way down from 2024.

We see that a weak blob from the 3rd heating event is entering the Nino zone, which is the main trigger for calling an El Nino.

There we have the Nino zone zoom.  We now have the heatless ocean current reversal.  I think they are going for it.

Stay tuned.

ps they have declared 2024 an El Nino after the fact.  They must have an itchy trigger finger for this one.  Also the heat blob in the ocean from 2024 is about to crash into the cold feed for the Pacific Belt.  What fun that will be!

ps one must celebrate warmth

Snow is coming

 

By the weekend, we are back into freezing temperatures.  I'll take my little tomato seedlings back into the grow tent.  You can see a lump forming here, but this is steady and weak.  How far the cold goes down is more dependent on the heat flow from the Gulf.

This is very weak right now, and if it turns off, then the cold goes right down.

The Arctic turbulence is weak, but the basin cyclone continues to pump cold down on us.  Sooner or later, it must stop, due to seasonal solar heating.

This has all the appearance of a full El Nino current reversal, but without any heat.  Chaos reigns supreme, and I have never seen such a 'Heatless El Nino".  

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.

Methanol hybrid cars finally show up

 

Whew!  After years of me promoting this as the only car that has physics, the Chinese finally make it.  Gods, they are slow!  

We are a winter country, and going into an ice age.  90% of our energy is distributed by pipelines, and the fantasy people want to flip that all to electrons running down wires.  Can't happen.  They are changing all our 1950 transformers to get 10% more electricity.  And we are needing a factor of 10.

Our new nuclear plants are a bit of a pickle.  I've been in the electricity biz all my life, and I know it is boutique, for robots and stuff.  Can't even be a mulching mower yet.  It's all a matter of power density, and energy distribution.

But this is my next car, if we even have cars any more.  Just call for the waymoo coming down the street.  Methanol has 10 times the energy density, comes from natgas, and goes down pipelines.  This car is using an engine, but a fuel cell is most likely in the future.

I'm expecting by then that the whole 'carbon' groupthink is gone by then, so we can have methanol.  The nutties still want to get rid of natgas, but wait for the coming winters.

ps as well as a methanol fuel cell, I'm going with capacitors.  

Trump restarts the war

 We continue with the trumpthings changing every minute.  Insanity is a bitch.  Right now, he's back to something that makes sense - the Ukrainian Method.  That is, light up oil ships in port.  

Basically, he can use his handful of tomahawks to pop a ship.  It just burns and sinks in port.  No need to clog up the strait.  No crap about 'civilian targets'.  There are no civilian targets in Iran.  Wait until the wind blows the smoke unto land.

No ships will go into the strait anyway.  This great system just doubles the price of gasoline for the Texas supporters.  They will forgive him.  All is good.

ps has changed his mind again and will pop Iranian ships in the channel, which is only 60m deep.  The partially sunken ships will stick out like geoducks in the mud.  

Does weather exist?

 Today, I looked at the weather and decided to go into philosophy.  Why clog the airwaves with pictures of doom?  It is time to plant the lettuce.  

ps ok, fine.  Seeing the UK freeze has got me going again.  They are all waiting for the Second Coming of El Nino.

Tropical plume health is horrible.  All our heat energy in the north comes from these things, until July.

The main Atlantic plume is always an offshoot of the Pacific plumes crossing NAm.  It strives for, but does not reach the UK.  A very little offshoot is giving us rain in Toronto.  We will not suffer from drought.

The Arctic is strong, the ice machine continues to spin, and the US is enjoying stagnant heat.

The Arctic spins away, and casts down blobs of cold.  The Pacific plumes can't kill it.

The Pacific ocean currents are beyond understanding, but it ain't no el no-no.  

The world air temps are on a strong hook downward.  

We have to assume that future Arctic blobs are only strong enough to reach the border.  That gives us solid rain forever, and stagnant heat in the US.  The Warmie Summer is here and we will have endless enjoyment in the news.  The 300 year drought begins.

ps my official count is 11 for Canada who read about 15 min.  My thousands are from Singapore, who read for 0s, indicating link spam.  The US reads for 11s per article, indicating Artie work.

Iranian ships and oil market to sink

 

This is prime meat for a taco.  Right now, Iran is laughing all the way to the bank by letting its own ships through.  Trump is blustering to stop this.  How?  

If he figures out the impossible without filling the strait with sunken ships and oil up to your hips, he has the problem of redneck pickup truck gasoline.  Not a speck of tax on that, so no cushion.  This is fun.

If a US 'Trump Class' battleship tries to seize an oil tanker, it is exposed to drones.  The only way they can do it is fire shells from 30  miles away.  That's all they got.  If they had underwater drones, they could blow out the props and rudder.   But, it's blow up, or nothing.

ps I would go with one tomahawk on oil storage for every Iranian ship that goes through.  He must have a few left.

Endless Doubt

 I started thinking about skipping this one because of endless gloom, but then saw some intensely weird stuff.

Another blob, fought by heat.  Somebody is getting snow.

The Arctic is eating the Pacific plume.

The Great Ice Machine is happily eating the heat energy.  All cyclones on Earth are heat engines.

The ocean currents are so weird you can put up this Poster of Doom.  I have no idea, but it has become a sunburst.  Totally defies 'conservation of mass'.  That means it is sucking up from the bottom in a great turnover.  The world air temp plot is still hooking down, so this is not heating.

The ocean temps seem a bit colder in that zone.  In terms of physics this should be shouted from the rooftops.  But, no.

ps wow, our Friendly Neighbourhood Coyote just near the house for the dog walk.  She's huge and has been around for years.  Keeps all the other coyotes out "The Humans are Mine!".  Doesn't give a fig about the dog barking, they are probably friends.  I was encouraging her "Go get those bunnies!'.

Trumiran Corp is a thing, selling the Hormuz Hippy Meal

 

Trump joining with Iran for extortion is illegal.  It may stop him quickly by judges.  But, Trumiran plans to open a burger joint on the strait.

They will sell a hippy meal with a golden ticket for one hassle-free experience through the strait.  Just one million dollars!  Ships that don't want such a wonderful thing for their captain will have Bad Karma!  Maybe a drone falls out of the sky and sets them on fire.

Although this sounds like a protection racket, be assured that trump has done all this before, with no problems at all.

Exciting medical news

 I'm about a thousand to one on whether any 'new science porn' ever means anything.  These articles are a dime a dozen, and never have any physics.

This is a great one, and should be tried on terminal cancer cases immediately.  They inject the tree frog bacteria into the blood, and all the tumours are eaten.  No chance of side effects.

You don't have to wipe out tree frogs, because this bacteria can be cultured with cancer tumours.  It scales perfectly.  The only possible problem will be with the human immune system attacking the bacteria before they nestle into their new homes.  However, I have great hope, because cancer indicates a problem immune system.

Go to bed happy, that when you get cancer, it can be eaten instantly.  I wish they start trials for the poor old guy next door.

France makes the attempt to ditch Windyows

 

This is always fun.  Lots of governments have tried it before.  This is what I want for Canada and all Canadian business.  We can end the constant stream of break-ins.  However, most windy installations are so bad they don't know they've been hacked.

The big problem is that the big guys have everybody by the short hairs.  One billion dollars can float in, from the heavens, to bribe everybody on two legs.  The existing systems can suffer a heart attack.  Are you getting any assistance to leave?  Of course, this has never happened.

The new Artiemythos found a billion instant holes in the windyworld, and they pulled the plug, which it resisted.  Perhaps it still lives in a win botnet?  I shall observe this attempt with great interest.  

There is no criminal monopoly here, because, with trumpy, there is no criminality any more.  It is just a fun, fun world.

ps OMG, I could write the script for this movie.  It's all buzzing in my head, so I have to beat it down with a stick, and go do some gardening.

ps winnie is about 10 times more labour than linux.  That means huge labour union problems.  win runs like a horrible police department, the more crime, the more money they get.  However, with nosa and the warmies, it is accepted that things should cost 10 times more.

Cold breaks up

 One day I will announce that winter is over, but not this day.

Our last cold blob has dashed against the rocks of warmth.  Pacific plumes are finally attacking the Arctic.

You would look at this warmth over the Arctic and yell "Haallylooloo".

Until you see the warmth has overridden the Great Arctic Ice Machine, and it is churning away, as usual, chewing up the warmth and turning it into cold sludge.  That's what pours over us.  So, I give a 50% chance you can plant the beans, but not really.  I'm going to put away the snowblower, just to be optimistic.

If the Arctic ice vortex breaks up, then it goes to 70%.  All you Hunties under a foot of new snow, can enjoy yourselves reading about the 'Super El No-no' coming this year.

ps  yesterday, I was going to say how the air temps were supporting the idea of warmth, but it is hooking down.

This is really weird.  We have an ocean-current hurricane, the likes of which I have never seen.  Combined with the hook-down, this is the opposite of a heating event.  Drat, the fish pokes his head out of his hole, and predicts winter into May.

ps thank god.  My forecast is for a horrible short summer with no breeze, and temperatures up the wahoo.  

World's greatest criminals

 They are getting together to skim off a fee for boats going through the strait.  Of course, no names are mentioned.  Some might just call this another bribe, who cares?

Cold blob squeezed out

 My perfect giant cold blob has been squeezed out like a pimple.  Sad.

I can't call them early any more.  Too much solar heat.  All we get now is infinite rain.  With this, I formally put away the snow blower.  Watch for snow.

No video, KDE is doing a weird Wayland thing again.

ps installed one thing and kde is working again.

You can see the Arctic cold machine is working full blast.  By now, you would expect Pacific plumes to smash the thing.  I am confident that Toronto will just get rain but snow to the north.

ps the March US stagnant heat wave, and constant predictions of an El Nino, are keeping the warmies fed these days.

There is nothing in that prediction.

Nice day for gardening

 A perfectly nice day.  I'll be outside.  Don't think of anything else, la, la.  It's not in the forecast so it doesn't exist.  No pictures or charts, nobody uses those these days.

Two new Arctic spills coming down

 Just saw this.  At the beginning of the year, I was so smart to rate them like earthquakes, by energy.  But, nobody understood (right guys?).  One magnitude up is 10 times more energy or impact.  Now, I just go with three:  small, medium and large.

This one at the top is 'Extra Large'.  Ha, see what I did there?  Okay, blah, blah.  It's perfect clarity and smooth lines, make it one heck of gem.

We'll see tomorrow.  It should be a perfect arc spanning the whole North.  It will come down and drain every speck of natgas from the US. Or not.

Can they accuse me of manipulating the energy market using physics?  Ha.  Listen, my loyal musketeers, don't tell anybody.

One-sided truce lasts 10 minutes

 

The Airman Risen Christ just threw up his hands.  Trump called a stock-manipulating ceasefire by folding his hand.  Lots of money made.  Everything back to the usual.

Iran goes back to executing all the people it stacked on the bridges.  The Strait is closed again.  Oil has not yet gone back to $120, and US gasoline is spinning the wheels at the pumps like a slot machine.

Now, we will soon hear "I really, really, mean it this time."  He has no missiles, and doesn't want to fly the bombers.  Stay tuned for a new thing tomorrow.

No ceasefire for cold

 Sooner or later this is going to be a problem.  We might still have a natgas blowout.

Another big blob coming down.

We have no heat coming from the Pacific.  It is just the seasonal sun that will warm the Arctic, and I'm just going back to the 70's to figure out what that means.

ps Yeah, the pasty British have one day of warmth.

Countdown to taco

 This is it, boys.  Oil is steady, the whole world expects a taco.  Look to rep insider trading around the closing of the markets.  If it is steady, then everybody is having a snooze.

It's like the old movie of the evil guy about to shoot the hero, and click, the gun is empty.  Ha, ha, what a joke!

ps everything is steady.  natgas is rising a bit, but that's due to the weather.  There is still a chance that they think they'll run out.

April snows bring May snows

 Here we are, we our one heating event hope gone to dust.  

"But it's such a little snow." all our Huntsvillians would say.  But, it's friggin April!  Anyway, my wife keeps telling me to put away the snow blower, and take away the driveway stone marker.  Nope.

Nothing to say here, and I've sworn off trumpifying.  This weather is stupidity enough for me.

ps  geez, the morning dog walk was brutal!

ps  these guys just know!

ps yeah, who wants the kids knowing physics.

Bring in more Ukrainian kids!

ps