On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital- >>>>>>>>>> sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters- >>>>>>>>>> gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all >>>>>>>>>> that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and >>>>>>>>> DRAM will
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. >>>>>>>>>> It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the
hardware
work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the >>>>>>>>> employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for
reading
improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of
Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high- >>>>>>>> dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th >>>>>>>> in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race,
Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a-a Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now >>>>>>>> outperform the
national average for their demographic.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-
grade
reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth
in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in >>>>>>>> recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including >>>>>>>> training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
-a-a-a-a-a-a New Hampshire (94.2%)
-a-a-a-a-a-a Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
-a-a-a-a-a-a Alaska
-a-a-a-a-a-a District of Columbia
-a-a-a-a-a-a Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
-a-a-a-a-a-a California (76.9%)
-a-a-a-a-a-a New York (77.9%)
-a-a-a-a-a-a New Mexico
-a-a-a-a-a-a Louisiana
-a-a-a-a-a-a Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation
would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top
level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses
of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and
conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent. Donald Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American manufacturers want to see in their customers.
Get an oscilloscope. Design something. You'll feel better.
I feel fine. I've got an oscilloscope - or at least hardware that plugs
into my computer and can persuade it to put an oscilloscope-style trace
on the display. What I lack is customers to give me problems to solve.
That wouldn't make me feel any better about your inanities.
On 2/18/26 09:58, Bill Sloman wrote:
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital- >>>>>>>>>>> sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters- >>>>>>>>>>> gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all >>>>>>>>>>> that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive >>>>>>>>>> and as
profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and >>>>>>>>>> DRAM will
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. >>>>>>>>>>> It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the >>>>>>>>>> hardware
work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the >>>>>>>>>> employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a >>>>>>>>>> bigger
problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for >>>>>>>>> reading
improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of
Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and
high- dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th
in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and >>>>>>>>> race,
Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a-a-a-a Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now >>>>>>>>> outperform the
national average for their demographic.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-
grade
reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading >>>>>>>>> growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in >>>>>>>>> recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
-a-a-a-a-a-a-a Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including >>>>>>>>> training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
-a-a-a-a-a-a New Hampshire (94.2%)
-a-a-a-a-a-a Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
-a-a-a-a-a-a Alaska
-a-a-a-a-a-a District of Columbia
-a-a-a-a-a-a Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
-a-a-a-a-a-a California (76.9%)
-a-a-a-a-a-a New York (77.9%)
-a-a-a-a-a-a New Mexico
-a-a-a-a-a-a Louisiana
-a-a-a-a-a-a Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation >>>>>> would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top >>>> level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks
upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses >>>> of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and
conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm
the reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
Donald Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American
manufacturers want to see in their customers.
I don't think the "denial campaign" has anything to do with not understanding the issue. Consider what happens to the "Petrodollar" if
the world moves off of fossil fuels. That is what supports the American dollar as the world reserve currency. Without that the US standard of
living is going to take a severe hit, which is political suicide for
whoever is unlucky enough to be in charge when it happens. A lot of the world is hoping that happens...so I see it as just a delaying action.
||Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English. |
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.|
|
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>>>>> wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has >>>>>>>>>> energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware >>>>>>>>> work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for reading >>>>>>>> improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of
Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high-dosage >>>>>>>> tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th in the >>>>>>>> nation for 4th-grade reading.
Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race, >>>>>>>> Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>> Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now outperform the
national average for their demographic.
Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-grade >>>>>>>> reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
New Hampshire (94.2%)
Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
Alaska
District of Columbia
Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
California (76.9%)
New York (77.9%)
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation
would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top
level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks >upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses
of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and
conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the >reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
Donald
Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American manufacturers >want to see in their customers.
Get an oscilloscope. Design something. You'll feel better.
I feel fine. I've got an oscilloscope - or at least hardware that plugs
into my computer and can persuade it to put an oscilloscope-style trace
on the display. What I lack is customers to give me problems to solve.
That wouldn't make me feel any better about your inanities.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:58:02 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has >>>>>>>>>>> energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware >>>>>>>>>> work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for reading >>>>>>>>> improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of
Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high-dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race, >>>>>>>>> Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>>> Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now outperform the
national average for their demographic.
Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-grade >>>>>>>>> reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
New Hampshire (94.2%)
Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
Alaska
District of Columbia
Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
California (76.9%)
New York (77.9%)
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation >>>>>> would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top >>>> level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks
upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses >>>> of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and
conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the
reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
We had a monstrous winter storm and a deadly avalanche near Truckee
recently.
This morning, the freeway near here (in Sunny California) was shut
down from black ice. The US northeast has had unprecedented cold...
ask Phil about that.
Cold kills.
Donald
Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American manufacturers
want to see in their customers.
TDS isn't healthy either.
Get an oscilloscope. Design something. You'll feel better.
I feel fine. I've got an oscilloscope - or at least hardware that plugs
into my computer and can persuade it to put an oscilloscope-style trace
on the display. What I lack is customers to give me problems to solve.
There are easy ways around that, but you'd have to take lessons in
being nice.
That wouldn't make me feel any better about your inanities.
Be nice. Give it a try.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:58:02 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has >>>>>>>>>>> energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware >>>>>>>>>> work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for reading >>>>>>>>> improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of
Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high-dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race, >>>>>>>>> Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>>> Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now outperform the
national average for their demographic.
Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-grade >>>>>>>>> reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
New Hampshire (94.2%)
Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
Alaska
District of Columbia
Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
California (76.9%)
New York (77.9%)
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation >>>>>> would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top >>>> level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks
upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses >>>> of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and
conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the
reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
We had a monstrous winter storm and a deadly avalanche near Truckee
recently.
This morning, the freeway near here (in Sunny California) was shut
down from black ice. The US northeast has had unprecedented cold...
ask Phil about that.
Cold kills.
Donald
Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American manufacturers
want to see in their customers.
TDS isn't healthy either.
Be nice. Give it a try.
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:58:02 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has >>>>>>>>>>> energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware >>>>>>>>>> work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for reading >>>>>>>>> improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of
Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high-dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race, >>>>>>>>> Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>>> Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now outperform the
national average for their demographic.
Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-grade >>>>>>>>> reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
New Hampshire (94.2%)
Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
Alaska
District of Columbia
Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
California (76.9%)
New York (77.9%)
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation >>>>>> would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top >>>> level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks
upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses >>>> of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and
conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the
reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
We had a monstrous winter storm and a deadly avalanche near Truckee
recently.
This morning, the freeway near here (in Sunny California) was shut
down from black ice. The US northeast has had unprecedented cold...
ask Phil about that.
Cold kills.
Donald
Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American manufacturers
want to see in their customers.
TDS isn't healthy either.
Be nice. Give it a try.
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures
by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts
10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy
tinto extreme weather events.
On 21/02/2026 3:55 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:58:02 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>> wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever. >>>>>>>>>>>
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware >>>>>>>>>>> work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for reading >>>>>>>>>> improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of >>>>>>>>>> Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high-dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race, >>>>>>>>>> Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>>>> Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now outperform the
national average for their demographic.
Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-grade
reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024.
Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress.
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
New Hampshire (94.2%)
Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
Alaska
District of Columbia
Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
California (76.9%)
New York (77.9%)
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation >>>>>>> would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top >>>>> level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks
upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.
Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English.
You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and
integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses >>>>> of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and >>>>> conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the >>> reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
We had a monstrous winter storm and a deadly avalanche near Truckee
recently.
This morning, the freeway near here (in Sunny California) was shut
down from black ice. The US northeast has had unprecedented cold...
ask Phil about that.
Cold kills.
Anthropogneic global warming has already raised sea surfaces
temperatures by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:20:42 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 21/02/2026 3:55 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:58:02 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 19/02/2026 3:44 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:06:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>> wrote:
On 19/02/2026 2:43 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:58:45 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/18/26 04:15, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:23 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 2/17/26 17:13, john larkin wrote:Google Ai says
On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 17/02/2026 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:
Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as >>>>>>>>>>>> profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever. >>>>>>>>>>>>
probably still be useful.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware
work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers
used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger >>>>>>>>>>>> problem than it has been in the past.
AI Overview
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama have achieved a significant >>>>>>>>>>> "Southern Surge" in child literacy
, defying historical trends to rank among the top states for reading
improvement. Key strategies include implementing Science of >>>>>>>>>>> Reading-based instruction, intensive teacher training, and high-dosage
tutoring. Despite high poverty levels, these states have shown >>>>>>>>>>> remarkable gains, particularly in 4th-grade reading.
Mississippi
Ranking: Once at the bottom, Mississippi now ranks 9th in the
nation for 4th-grade reading.
Demographic Adjustment: When adjusted for poverty and race,
Mississippi ranks #1 in the nation for 4th-grade reading and math. >>>>>>>>>>> Performance: Black 4th graders in Mississippi now outperform the
national average for their demographic.
Approach: Mandatory teacher training in phonics, third-grade
reading gates, and, and high-dosage tutoring.
Louisiana
Improvement: Louisiana showed the highest reading growth in the
country, jumping from 50th place in 2019 to 16th by 2024. >>>>>>>>>>> Recovery: The state ranked #1 in the country in recovering from
pandemic-related reading losses.
Approach: Intensive literacy initiatives, including training for
educators and strict accountability for reading progress. >>>>>>>>>>>
And it's Fat Tuesday!
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
The problem with comparative rankings is that we *still* don't know >>>>>>>>>> what proportion of the population is literate.
Jeroen Belleman
Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):
New Hampshire (94.2%)
Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score)
Alaska
District of Columbia
Vermont
Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):
California (76.9%)
New York (77.9%)
New Mexico
Louisiana
Mississippi
putting California last.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation >>>>>>>> would have a literacy rate below 99%.
Jeroen Belleman
After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.
I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.
I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.
https://informationaccessgroup.com/literacy/
Only about 1.2% of the Australian population achieves level 5 (the top >>>>>> level). 93.2% reach level 2 or better.
I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.
I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of
800 on the verbal SATs. (800 on math.)
American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks >>>> upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall
short is equally unpopular.
I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language. >>>>Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English. >>>> You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can
understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.
"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and >>>>>> integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses >>>>>> of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate
evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and >>>>>> conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."
His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.
Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?
Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the >>>> reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent.
We had a monstrous winter storm and a deadly avalanche near Truckee
recently.
This morning, the freeway near here (in Sunny California) was shut
down from black ice. The US northeast has had unprecedented cold...
ask Phil about that.
Cold kills.
Anthropogneic global warming has already raised sea surfaces
temperatures by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels.
The pre-industrial baseline was the Little Ice Age. People ice skated
and had winter faires on the Thames.
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures
by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts
10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy
tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:55:40 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures >>> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts
10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy
tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Presumably radiated back into space.
But computer simulations are cheap and very cooperative.
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
Apparently the few giant dram and flash makers are *not* ramping up
capital investment and production to meet the AI demand, but raising
prices and assuming that AI will mostly crash.
That's sound business planning.
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures >> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts
10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy
tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount
of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long
term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting
ends up in the oceans
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures >>>> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts
10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy >>>> tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount
of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long
term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting
ends up in the oceans
A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into
space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun.
Sounds as though the system might be stable in the long term.
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures >> >> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts
10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy
tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount
of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long
term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting
ends up in the oceans
A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into
space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun. Sounds as
though the system might be stable in the long term.
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
Apparently the few giant dram and flash makers are *not* ramping up
capital investment and production to meet the AI demand, but raising
prices and assuming that AI will mostly crash.
That's sound business planning.
That's wishful thinking. It always easier to do nothing and raise your >prices. AI isn't wildly useful, but it does seem to work well enough
that people with use it, if mainly to make plausible propaganda aimed at >gullible twits like you. That's a mass market. People who do gear up to >cater for it will make money - if almost certainly not as much as the
stock market currently seems to think. The dot com bubble wasn't a
bubble because international communications didn't take off, but because >they didn't take off quite as fast as people had hoped.
<snipped the boasting about some new toys>
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/02/16/western-digital-sells-out-entire-2026-hard-drive-inventory-as-ai-datacenters-gobble-up-supply/
And when most of the gigantic AI data centers collapse, all that dram
and all those drives will be dumped on ebay or whatever.
Louisiana is looking to be the place to build the AI things. It has
energy, land, water, and low taxes.
Apparently the few giant dram and flash makers are *not* ramping up
capital investment and production to meet the AI demand, but raising
prices and assuming that AI will mostly crash.
That's sound business planning.
That's wishful thinking. It always easier to do nothing and raise your >prices. AI isn't wildly useful, but it does seem to work well enough
that people with use it, if mainly to make plausible propaganda aimed at >gullible twits like you. That's a mass market. People who do gear up to >cater for it will make money - if almost certainly not as much as the
stock market currently seems to think. The dot com bubble wasn't a
bubble because international communications didn't take off, but because >they didn't take off quite as fast as people had hoped.
<snipped the boasting about some new toys>
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:51:26 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures >>> >> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts >>> >> 10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy >>> >> tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount
of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long
term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting
ends up in the oceans
A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into
space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun. Sounds as >>though the system might be stable in the long term.
Pretty obviously we have negative feedbacks, otherwise we'd be Venus.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:51:26 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures
by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts >>>> >> 10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy >>>> >> tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount >>>> of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long
term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting
ends up in the oceans
A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into >>>space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun. Sounds as >>>though the system might be stable in the long term.
Pretty obviously we have negative feedbacks, otherwise we'd be Venus.
Of course thare are negaive feedbacks. First, as temperature grows
Earth emits more heat radiation. This grows with fourth power of >temperature, so it is pretty strong effect.
But you ignore simple thing: system with negative feedback and
delay will oscilate.
And there are a lot of delays in the
system. There is also a lot of nonlinearties. When you
gradually turn on power to an oscilator it will probably
not surprise you that with growth of supplay voltage
you get bigger amplitude of oscilations on the output.
Depending of details it would not surprise me seeing
negative peaks going lower with bigger voltage. Yet, when
you see oscilations in natural system you act as you
never saw an oscilator.
Concerning limits, I do not think Venus-like scenario is
possible for Earth. But having Carbon again wound be very
hard for people. Tropical areas probably would be
inihibitable by humans in such a case. There would be
disastrous impact on agriculture: plants that we know
how to handle and which we selected over thousends of
years would be badly adapted. Antarctica would melt
signifcantly reducing habitable land. More energy in
atmosphere means strongee winds, torndoes, flooding etc.
Our current architecture is build on certain assumptions
about climate, with changed climate many current buildings
will be destroyed and we will need new ones.
It is not clear to me if attemps to stabilize temperature at
level as it was 100 years ago is wise. Namely there are
natural variations and fighting natural change may take
too much effort. But our current impact is larger than
natural variations on similar time scale and without global
climate control policy will grow.
Of course, so people want to be "free riders", that is collect
benefits but let the other do the work. This seem to be current
US policy. And of course much of business works on principle
"get money now", leaving troubles to government and future
generations. Of course, there is hipocrisy too: European
governments are much less eager to adapt electric cars now,
when it turned out that Chinese ones are better than European
ones.
But believing that nothing serious is happening to climate
is just ignores solid data (which a lot of politicians like
to do).
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:51:26 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures >>>>> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts >>>>> 10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy >>>>> tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount
of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long
term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting
ends up in the oceans
A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into
space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun. Sounds as
though the system might be stable in the long term.
Pretty obviously we have negative feedbacks, otherwise we'd be Venus.
The AGW industry has to invent and simulate positive-feedback tipping
points. Their funding depends on it.
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:27:49 -0000 (UTC), antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:51:26 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures
by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts >>>>>>> 10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy >>>>>>> tinto extreme weather events.
Where would that energy have gone otherwise?
Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount >>>>> of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are
going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long >>>>> term problem. At the moment about half the extra CO2 we are emitting >>>>> ends up in the oceans
A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into
space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun. Sounds as
though the system might be stable in the long term.
Pretty obviously we have negative feedbacks, otherwise we'd be Venus.
Of course thare are negaive feedbacks. First, as temperature grows
Earth emits more heat radiation. This grows with fourth power of
temperature, so it is pretty strong effect.
But you ignore simple thing: system with negative feedback and
delay will oscilate.
I design stable high-order negative feedback systems. Mine don't
oscillate.
> And there are a lot of delays in the
system. There is also a lot of nonlinearties. When you
gradually turn on power to an oscilator it will probably
not surprise you that with growth of supplay voltage
you get bigger amplitude of oscilations on the output.
Depending of details it would not surprise me seeing
negative peaks going lower with bigger voltage. Yet, when
you see oscilations in natural system you act as you
never saw an oscilator.
Concerning limits, I do not think Venus-like scenario is
possible for Earth. But having Carbon again wound be very
hard for people. Tropical areas probably would be
inihibitable by humans in such a case. There would be
disastrous impact on agriculture: plants that we know
how to handle and which we selected over thousends of
years would be badly adapted. Antarctica would melt
signifcantly reducing habitable land. More energy in
atmosphere means strongee winds, torndoes, flooding etc.
Our current architecture is build on certain assumptions
about climate, with changed climate many current buildings
will be destroyed and we will need new ones.
Plants love CO2. Veggies are grown in hothouses at 1000 PPM of CO2.
In past times, when life flourished on earth, CO2 was 5000 PPM.Very intermittently.
Plants are near starving now.
I'm thinking that something like 700 PPM
would be good.
It is not clear to me if attemps to stabilize temperature at
level as it was 100 years ago is wise. Namely there are
natural variations and fighting natural change may take
too much effort. But our current impact is larger than
natural variations on similar time scale and without global
climate control policy will grow.
Comparing temps to "pre-industrial times" clearly has instrumentation hazards. We are taking millions of times more measurements than we did
in 1800.
Of course, so people want to be "free riders", that is collect
benefits but let the other do the work. This seem to be current
US policy. And of course much of business works on principle
"get money now", leaving troubles to government and future
generations. Of course, there is hipocrisy too: European
governments are much less eager to adapt electric cars now,
when it turned out that Chinese ones are better than European
ones.
But believing that nothing serious is happening to climate
is just ignores solid data (which a lot of politicians like
to do).
We're lucky to be living in an interglacial. What will be serious is
the next ice age.
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:29 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
There's a part of San Francisco that used to be quiet, a mix of old
brick factories and Victorian houses. It's called The Arena now, rents
are crazy, and parking is impossible. All because of AI.
My wife has her speech therapy office in a big building with a lot of
small units. It used to have a lot of hair stylists and tattoo salons
and artists and units available to rent, with lots of space in the
parking garage. Now it's jammed with AI geeks and here's no parking available. This has got to crash.
If AI is so good, why would any AI company need more than four
employees?
<snipped the boasting about some new toys>
I'm not boasting. Anybody could buy these things, even you.
But you ignore simple thing: system with negative feedback and
delay will oscilate.
And there are a lot of delays in the
system. There is also a lot of nonlinearties.
Any good idea attracts people who think they can
exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a
crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
[...]
Any good idea attracts people who think they can
exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a
crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.
It isn't always the incompetent hangers-on who go bankrupt, some of them undeservedly survive while the competent are undermined and crash.
On 23/02/2026 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:29 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:
<snip>
There's a part of San Francisco that used to be quiet, a mix of old
brick factories and Victorian houses. It's called The Arena now, rents
are crazy, and parking is impossible. All because of AI.
My wife has her speech therapy office in a big building with a lot of
small units. It used to have a lot of hair stylists and tattoo salons
and artists and units available to rent, with lots of space in the
parking garage. Now it's jammed with AI geeks and here's no parking
available. This has got to crash.
There's no obligation. Any good idea attracts people who think they can >exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a >crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.
If AI is so good, why would any AI company need more than four
employees?
You've got to be able to express your ideas clearly enough for the AI to >take away a self-consistent set of targets. The kind of AI that can make >sense of idiot ambitions doesn't seem to exist yet, and if the silly >questions that get aired here are a representative sample of the crap
they might need to deal with, they probably never will.
One of my friends grand-daughters works for Microsoft in Australia on >exploiting artificial intelligence, and it good enough at it that
Microsoft are moving her work at their headquarters at Redmond WA.
Artificial intelligence is a resource that human intelligence can
exploit. It's not obvious that it could exploit itself.
<snipped the boasting about some new toys>
I'm not boasting. Anybody could buy these things, even you.
I certainly could, if the need arose. So why did you waste bandwidth >boasting about them?
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:52:17 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 23/02/2026 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:29 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>> wrote:
<snip>
There's a part of San Francisco that used to be quiet, a mix of old
brick factories and Victorian houses. It's called The Arena now, rents
are crazy, and parking is impossible. All because of AI.
My wife has her speech therapy office in a big building with a lot of
small units. It used to have a lot of hair stylists and tattoo salons
and artists and units available to rent, with lots of space in the
parking garage. Now it's jammed with AI geeks and here's no parking
available. This has got to crash.
There's no obligation. Any good idea attracts people who think they can
exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a
crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.
If AI is so good, why would any AI company need more than four
employees?
You've got to be able to express your ideas clearly enough for the AI to
take away a self-consistent set of targets. The kind of AI that can make
sense of idiot ambitions doesn't seem to exist yet, and if the silly
questions that get aired here are a representative sample of the crap
they might need to deal with, they probably never will.
One of my friends grand-daughters works for Microsoft in Australia on
exploiting artificial intelligence, and it good enough at it that
Microsoft are moving her work at their headquarters at Redmond WA.
Artificial intelligence is a resource that human intelligence can
exploit. It's not obvious that it could exploit itself.
<snipped the boasting about some new toys>
I'm not boasting. Anybody could buy these things, even you.
I certainly could, if the need arose. So why did you waste bandwidth
boasting about them?
Not boasting, but recommending gear to people here who might do actual hands-on electronics. I asked about VNAs and cable manufacturers here recently. It's better to be helpful than nasty.
$1000 and some imagination could start a nice little business.
I might teach a class at a local college. Every student would get some
parts and some solder and a DVM.
On 24/02/2026 4:59 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:52:17 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 23/02/2026 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:29 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>> wrote:
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>> wrote:
<snip>
There's a part of San Francisco that used to be quiet, a mix of old
brick factories and Victorian houses. It's called The Arena now, rents >>>> are crazy, and parking is impossible. All because of AI.
My wife has her speech therapy office in a big building with a lot of
small units. It used to have a lot of hair stylists and tattoo salons
and artists and units available to rent, with lots of space in the
parking garage. Now it's jammed with AI geeks and here's no parking
available. This has got to crash.
There's no obligation. Any good idea attracts people who think they can
exploit it, and most of them are wrong, and that does tend to produce a
crash when the incompetent hangers-on go bankrupt.
If AI is so good, why would any AI company need more than four
employees?
You've got to be able to express your ideas clearly enough for the AI to >>> take away a self-consistent set of targets. The kind of AI that can make >>> sense of idiot ambitions doesn't seem to exist yet, and if the silly
questions that get aired here are a representative sample of the crap
they might need to deal with, they probably never will.
One of my friends grand-daughters works for Microsoft in Australia on
exploiting artificial intelligence, and it good enough at it that
Microsoft are moving her work at their headquarters at Redmond WA.
Artificial intelligence is a resource that human intelligence can
exploit. It's not obvious that it could exploit itself.
<snipped the boasting about some new toys>
I'm not boasting. Anybody could buy these things, even you.
I certainly could, if the need arose. So why did you waste bandwidth
boasting about them?
Not boasting, but recommending gear to people here who might do actual
hands-on electronics. I asked about VNAs and cable manufacturers here
recently. It's better to be helpful than nasty.
$1000 and some imagination could start a nice little business.
You also need customers.
I might teach a class at a local college. Every student would get some
parts and some solder and a DVM.
And a collection of horrible examples how to do electronic design ineptly.
Your lack pf enthusiasm for hiring people who have got Ph.D.s tells the >story.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:39:48 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 24/02/2026 4:59 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:52:17 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 23/02/2026 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:12:29 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>> wrote:
On 22/02/2026 3:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:59:04 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> >>>>>>> wrote:
$1000 and some imagination could start a nice little business.
You also need customers.
That's part of having "some imagination."
I might teach a class at a local college. Every student would get some
parts and some solder and a DVM.
And a collection of horrible examples of how to do electronic design ineptly.
I have a single circuit in mind. Something that will give the kids some instincts. Well, some of the kids.
Giving away DVMs would be useful to all of the kids.
Your lack pf enthusiasm for hiring people who have got Ph.D.s tells the
story.
I'm just an engineer. I do what works.
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