Human folly for 02016-04-16

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• 21696941 solar power reshaping energy production developing world follow Sun (economist.com):

  Jordan is installing a 5 km² 160MW #photovoltaic #solar plant outside Ma’an; Jordan imports 96% of its #energy as fossil fuels, amounting to 10% of its GDP. China, since 2015 the biggest producer of solar energy, subsidizes PV plants, now producing 3% of its electricity; it’s expected to install 12GW in the first half of 2016. India, the other leading country, is still shooting for just 100GW in 2022; KPMG thinks solar will provide 12.5% of India’s energy by 2025. “Such is the frenzy that officials in sunny Punjab are urging farmers to lease their land to solar developers rather than till it.” Global solar-energy capacity rose by 26% last year. Saudi company Acwa Power won a 200MW contract in Dubai in 2014 at a levelized cost of “less than $60/MWh”; Acwa also built the world’s largest #CSP plant, in Morocco, and bought a 50MW Jordanian plant initially started by Greek company Sunrise. Italian company Enel Green Power won a 20-year contract in Perú in February for “just under $48/MWh” and a “similarly lengthy” contract in Coahuila for “about $40/MWh”.

• 2016 hinta en (ethereum.karalabe.com):

  brief #slides on the #Ethereum network, a sort of Turing-complete replacement for #Bitcoin.

• (nanex.net):

  Eric Hunsader (“Nanex”) got a “whistleblower” reward of US$750k for his investigation of delayed #securities #trading quotes from NYSE.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  conversation about #immigration to the US and the #H-1B visa.

• The secret origin of Windows (technologizer.com):

  Tandy Trower writes the #history of the #Microsoft Windows releases that he managed, which were 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.

• How to talk to girls at parties %28text%29 (neilgaiman.com):

  #fiction by Gaiman

• Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos (rbth.com):

  using FindFace #deep-learning #neural-networks to do #face-recognition #image-recognition of photos of random people he meets on the subway. #privacy

• Syria is al Qaeda rising as isil is rolled back is the US de facto allied with it (juancole.com):

  The US is supplying arms to #al-Qaeda groups in #Syria in order to retake territory from #Daesh.

• Pdp7 Unix (github.com):

  PDP-7 Unix is back up and running in #emulation with SIMH. #history #archival

• Viewform (docs.google.com):

  mini maker faire in Buenos Aires: form to propose exhibiting. May 20th is the deadline.

• In 1704 Isaac Newton predicts the world will end in (openculture.com):

  Isaac Newton’s calculations that the world will end in 2060. Isaac Newton #handwriting! #predictions

• Deep learning on the Raspberry Pi (petewarden.com):

  Pete Warden ported the Deep Belief #deep-learning #neural-networks for #image-recognition to #Raspberry-Pi #GPGPU.

• Draw (recursivedrawing.com):

  a recursive image drawing thing where you can drag an image into itself and then resize it in order to get a neat fractal

• How I deal with harassment abuse and (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com.ar):

  How to deal with #public-shaming and online #harassment and abuse.