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It's a fundamental limitations of LLMS - don't use them if you're worried about hallucinations.

Anyone using AI tools should assume that at least 20% of what it produces will be wrong: Missing details, inventing things, basic mistakes. Use AI if being 80% right quickly is fin…

If we had the renewables to replace the coal politicians would love it to retire in a heartbeat. The reason it’s sticking it around longer is because politicians fear the backlash …

When Tassie dams get low, they import power from the mainland. It’s a common seasonal thing. Drought + Basslink outage had the gov buying and running diesel gen at huge cost to kee…

are you sure it wasn't prostitution but child abuse overseas that was illegal?

You also have to factor in how terrible post-doc pay and job security is, just to have a shot at getting on the tenure track. In the US it's half of that 80k number in bio research…

The effect is so significant that South Australia actually experiences intervals of negative operational demand.

> From the institution, not the authors. Typically the authors pay the journal out of their own funding.

40% of Australia's population lives in just 2 cities.

Depending on the season Tasmania exports a lot of electricity to the mainland.

South Australia is a fascinating case study of this in action - average prices in the middle of the day are actually negative.

This has been clear for a while. The real challenge for grid operators at the moment is system security - we need sufficient storage to ensure that supply and demand are consistent…

> in the frequency control auxiliary services (FCAS) market the provider with the fastest response can completely control the market, forcing other providers to transfer almost unl…

What uptake is it having? I've only ever seen it used as a marketing device.

> If your reasearch $$$ depends on you to keep showing that humans are destroying the climate Except if you cared about money, it is far easier to sell out and take the money from …

Flow hive is a cool idea, but its expensive, and a lot of people bought it because they thought it automated beekeeping whilst in reality the majority of the work in keeping a hive…

I already purchase my hives as pieces of wood that I have to assemble, glue/nail together, paint, etc and I know that the measurements for things like the bee space are correct so …

Do people keep A. cerana in Hong Kong in a domesticated fashion? The impression I had was that they were much less attractive than A. mellifera because their hives are much smaller…

The issue is how many researchers want to spend their time replicating the research of other people rather than doing their own original work. Getting funding is already incredibly…

Publishing papers in the West provides a pretty direct benefit - there's a reason behind the saying 'publish or perish'.