🧮 Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
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🔋 Solar power goes 24/7 as battery costs plummet
This study marks a defining moment for renewable energy: storage is no longer the bottleneck. It signals a global pivot toward continuous clean power and could hasten the decline of fossil fuels.
A new analysis from the energy think tank Ember reveals that steep drops in battery prices have made dispatchable solar power as affordable as conventional energy sources. With storage costs falling to about $65 per MWh, long-duration batteries now allow solar to deliver reliable electricity around the clock, making it a true alternative to gas generation. The U.S. continues to lead in large-scale battery installations despite minor tariff impacts.
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🤖 I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
A nostalgic and insightful reflection on early language modeling — a reminder that even primitive algorithms paved the way for today’s AI creativity.
Developer Susam Pal built ‘Mark V. Shaney Junior,’ a 30-line Python script that generates text using simple Markov chains inspired by a classic 1980s program. By training it on 24 years of his own blog posts, he produced absurd yet amusing imitations of his writing. The piece explains how the model constructs word-pair mappings and contrasts its simplicity with modern large language models, showing how Markov chains remain a playful way to grasp text generation basics.
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