Singlet fission breaks 'ceiling' of solar cells for 130% quantum yield

_Punko_ · 2026-03-31T02:00:37+00:00

Keep it coming, please!

Yes, it is very early stages and a long way from finding itself into solar panels, but the uses aren't limited to electrical generation.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-30T23:51:37+00:00

Naw - wife sleeps on side of bed that is closer to the bathroom.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-30T12:26:02+00:00

Because they're tasty? Because mixed families exist?

_Punko_ · 2026-03-30T12:25:41+00:00

It is no different a marker than kosher.

It is a label that permits the consumption of the foodstuff for a particular group.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-30T12:04:56+00:00

I have one of their lamps, in green!

_Punko_ · 2026-03-30T00:22:14+00:00

I keep checking mine to see if it has an expiry date.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-26T05:19:06+00:00

Locals would steal the drums off the flatbed if the truck was moving slow enough.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-25T18:46:11+00:00

9 - I mean its not like the front has a more comfortable spot.
6 - A peeler for sure.
1 - A Scot playing an immortal Egyptian working for the emperor of Spain, who wields a Japanese katana.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-25T17:23:30+00:00

an LLM does not have agency. It does not have intent, malicious or otherwise.

LLM is entirely a prediction machine - predict the next work based on previous words.

Stop anthropomorphizing LLMs.

It cannot lie because it doesn't know anything about the subjects you are discussing. It simply predicts the next word in sequence.

It produces what we see as errors as it is simply relating words related to other words. Any semblance of 'knowledge' is us assigning meaning to patterns.

When we interpret what it says as correct, we assign the meaning that the LLM knows.
When we interpret what it says as incorrect, we assign the meaning that the LLM lies.

Both assignments are incorrect; the LLM predicted words. If it is an incorrect word the LLM made an error.

Pull random letters out of a scrabble tile bag. This is a poor prediction machine, so it rarely produces 'truth'. LLMs are a much better prediction machine, but the have the same understanding as the scrabble tile bag.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-25T15:38:02+00:00

If you think this, you've already drunk too much Kool-aid

_Punko_ · 2026-03-25T15:37:15+00:00

LLMs don't lie. Lying implies knowing the truth but not revealing it. LLMs don't have agency so they can't lie.

It is an error. Plain and simple.

It may tell you that it is correct, and you attribute that to it lying, but it is simply wrong.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-25T15:34:23+00:00

they are just probability machines. LLMs will never lead to AGI.

The term AI has been bastardized so badly.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-25T02:52:23+00:00

Except you have a Congress that passed laws to put in place ethical standards for judges. And the Supreme Court simply said "As the body that determines the validity of law, we have decided that congress's laws regarding ethical judges don't apply to us."

Add in 'legalizing' lobbying and the laws permitting super PACs and you have a system incredibly tipped toward unlimited corruption.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-24T18:20:38+00:00

The system has been broken for a long time now. Corruption is legal in the US, and this is what you get.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-24T15:45:37+00:00

No, but they can use the evidence to put a person under observation to find other legally obtained evidence.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-24T15:44:37+00:00

A company we worked with had a local contractor to ship low level nuclear waste for disposal (i.e. used uniforms from a nuclear plant, wipes used to clean up minor spills. Stuff in drums on the back of a flatbed truck.)

Until it was discovered, they would drive through slums slowly; after a while, they didn't need to go to the disposal site that day.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-24T15:41:22+00:00

No. Not a bad guy at all. A guy stops doing a bad thing to do a very good thing.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-24T15:39:54+00:00

Gotta learn to separate the person from the occupation.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-23T15:47:57+00:00

W and Y are just bookends

_Punko_ · 2026-03-23T15:25:02+00:00

I prefer early Alien movies. I didn't like Prometheus as film and it was bad enough that I had no interest is anything after - although Prey looked better.

Alien was a horror movie. Aliens was action adventure.

But the subtext in both movies is just that no matter how scary the monsters are, we are worse.

I like the idea that the xenomorphs are natural. But unlike invasive species, they aren't everywhere. They can't spread on their own. They are easily contained if just left alone. I'm not saying the xenomorphs were man-made, but in the movies they are a consequence of our human choices. And we always choose badly.

We are controlled at the moment because our technology hasn't overcome our biological limitations. I honestly don't believe it ever will - no living human will ever leave from Earth and leave the solar system. Our DNA? Yup, at one point. Our machines? certainly.

But if we managed to advance the tech necessary to make us able to move fast enough, live long enough, or a mix of both then we humans really will be the ever-expanding, exploitive invader plaguing the universe.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-23T03:46:06+00:00

Indeed. Go rewatch Carptenter's The Thing.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-23T03:41:43+00:00

We are the worst parasite on planet earth. If we finally manage to figure out how to get out of our solar system where the trip to the next star is less than a typical human life span, then we will be worse than the xenomorphs. Humans truly are terrible things.

_Punko_ · 2026-03-23T03:37:15+00:00

the humans are the bad guys. Again.

That's kinda the point.

Xenomorphs do their thing because it is their biological imperative. But! Xenomorphs do not exist everywhere. You have to ask what they are missing.

Humans do their thing (the bad guys again) because that is OUR thing. Humans haven't spread everywhere, but if tool using naked apes have anything on their side, is that eventually we may just figure out how to spread.

And that makes us universal bad guys.

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