apparently in #JS the new Symbol.toPrimitive method makes it possible to, in effect, implement operator overloading of | to make a pipeline?
Shanghai Metal Market #pricing for #Li-ion battery commodities for #energy storage, including entire batteries: “Prismatic NCM523 battery cell (50-60Ah)(weekly)” lists “average” 0.049, which is US$49/kWh. “6-series Prismatic Ternary Pack (weekly) USD/wh” is 0.084, US$84/kWh, down from US$94/kWh in December according to BNEF.
Shanghai Metal Market #pricing for #sodium-battery commodities for #energy storage: “25Ah Pouch Sodium-ion Battery Cell (NFS) USD/wh: 0.05” which is US$50/kWh, more expensive than lions for #energy storage
in December #Li-ion battery pack #pricing was US$94/kWh for #energy storage. “BNEF expects pack prices to decrease by $3/kWh in 2025, based on its near-term outlook,” but if I’m reading the SMM page correctly, they’ve already dropped US$10.
Shanghai Metal Market #pricing for used #Li-ion battery commodities for #energy storage
#AI slop page full of misinformation on battery pricing, saying things like, “the price per kWh for NMC batteries can range from $600 to $1000.”
“#Java Was Strongly Influenced by #Objective-C ...and not #C++...” #history
archive of https://www.ft.com/content/fe474cff-564c-41d2-aaf7-313636a83e5b Kristalina Georgieva at the #IMF warns that we're probably in an #AI bubble. #news #finance
#Eliezer’s short story “That Alien Message” providing a convincing argument that humans are cognitively limited, not data-limited, through the device of a fictional world where people think faster.
#Eliezer fiction about the Bayesian initiation ceremony
New Yorker article (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilization-kit) about #Open-Source-Ecology (aka Civilization Starting Kit, Factor e Farm, Global Village Construction Set).
#video by #Boston-Dynamics #robotics about their new three-finger opposable-thumb gripper.
#toread #video interviewing Norman Dodd about his interview with Rowan Gaither, head of the Ford Foundation
102.4 terabit per second (51.2 in, 51.2 out) 64-port optical (infrared) network switch with a “324B streaming frame size (SFS)” which I think means it can forward 16.7 billion frames per second #hardware #electronics #networking
another comparison #video with #Sora-2 and Wan 2.5, using #nano-banana for some image editing. Oh and apparently Sora 2 is available on #higgsfield.ai now without a watermark, as Wan 2.5 is as well. (For which you can set the video duration) Also using Seedream 4.0. #toread
“Palestine support is banned network-wide, even on the politics site, even as an answer to a question. Data dumps are locked behind an illegal paywall. 2019 was the beginning of the end. Stack Exchange broke the law: https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/the-erasure-of-luigi-mangione Any criticism of the way Stack Exchange investors run the site results in a ban. I was banned from the Stack Exchange network for one month for deleting my own comments. I was banned from Meta Stack Exchange for one year for asking if it's okay to delete my own comments.” #politics
“The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.” #politics
#simonw on using agentic #AI for programming with multiple concurrent agents: "vibe engineering"
#video about three-tube CRT projectors supporting 1080i video by #Technology-Connections
#video where #LaurieWired tries to explain the #Karger-Thompson attack and almost succeeds but gets a little mixed up. #security
Lawhore Vagistan #humor