Things that make me go mmhhh...

I like things that look good and work well.

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

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No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜

I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

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(via Is reality setting in, re the Northland RONS? - Greater Auckland)

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4 lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters

After a series of extreme weather events over the past month, NZ has been reminded that disasters aren’t just acts of nature.

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(via We discovered microbes in bark ‘eat’ climate gases. This will change the way we think about trees - Southern Cross University)

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(via Economic drivers or money pits? The debate over the government’s billion-dollar roads | The Spinoff)

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(via $5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance - Newsroom)

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(via Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn - Newsroom)

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(via Destroying a memorial on Ruapehu - Newsroom)

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(via Ordinary people, real power: can democracy be more democratic? - The University of Auckland)

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Book of the Week: Naomi walks the earth

An epic review by the founder of the Te Araroa trail of a Nelson writer's amazing account of walking it.

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Only 17% of peatlands, vital to curbing climate change, are protected, study finds

Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower proportion are protected compared to other ecosystems. Just 17% of these swampy bogs overlap with existing protected areas, according to a mapping study published Feb. 12 in the journal Conservation Letters. By contrast, protected areas […]

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Buying Baja | Hakai Magazine

On a storied stretch of Mexico’s Baja peninsula, locals fight rich outsiders and rampant development that threaten to transform the coast and dry up aquifers.

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The unseen voyage: tracing the elusive migration of tuna (eels) to and from Aotearoa

Aotearoa New Zealand’s longfin (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and shortfin (A. australis schmidtii) eels, or tuna in te reo Māori, undergo one of the animal kingdom’s most mysterious migrations.

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(via About Town: Point Wells — North & South Magazine)