{"id":4920,"date":"2023-04-21T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:44:00","slug":"odd-lots-341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoursemagazine.com\/culture-and-society\/2023\/04\/20\/the-fifth-wave-the-golden-age-of-substack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s a fascinating take on Substack<\/a>, which I\u2019ve been watching for a while and read frequently when I identify someone there worth reading. Independent (i.e., non-partisan) news journalists have been gathering there, and it could become a new source of (mostly; entirely is impossible) unbiased news reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Stability AI, the firm behind the Stable Diffusion image generator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/07\/2023\/stability-ai-is-on-shaky-ground-as-it-burns-through-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is burning through lots of cash and struggling to find a tenable business model<\/a>. I may try using it to make book covers; I hope it survives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thechipletter.substack.com\/p\/iapx432-gordon-moore-risk-and-intels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is an excellent article about Intel&#8217;s monumental failure with their iAPX-432 CPU<\/a> (introduced in 1981) which was so slow and expensive nobody built machines around it, leading to its cancellation in 1986. Intel&#8217;s engineers learned a <em>lot<\/em> from its failure. (This is a good example of a Substack post, BTW.)<\/li>\n<li>Ok, this is weird: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/03\/28\/pictured-giant-meatball-created-using-woolly-mammoth-flesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some guys cultured woolly mammoth meat in a lab and made a mammoth (though not woolly) meatball with mammoth DNA and elephant DNA<\/a>. They won&#8217;t eat it because they don&#8217;t know how our immune systems might respond to mammoth DNA. Duhh.<\/li>\n<li>Raspberry Pi competitors are popping up all over the place. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/review\/orange-pi-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Orange Pi 5, which has 8 ARM Cortex-A76 cores and up to 32 GB RAM<\/a>\u2014with a Mali G510 GPU thrown in for good measure. The 16GB board costs $138USD.&#160; It comes with a Linux distro specific to the Orange Pi, and can run other ARM-based Linux distros.<\/li>\n<li>I just finished and am polishing my first piece of short fiction since 2008. It\u2019s called \u201cVolare\u201d and clocks in at 10,600 words. That\u2019s too short for a paperback, and I\u2019m still considering how and when to publish it. I\u2019ve got a little more polishing to do still, and may take the op[portunity to use an AI image generator to make a cover. We\u2019ll see. I\u2019ll post details on Contra when I get a few things straightened out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/methane-warm-earth-atmosphere-radiation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Methane\u2019s behavior as a greenhouse gas isn\u2019t near as simple as the alarmists make it out to be<\/a>. Read the whole thing; it\u2019s too complex to summarize here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a fascinating take on Substack, which I\u2019ve been watching for a while and read frequently when I identify someone there worth reading. Independent (i.e., non-partisan) news journalists have been gathering there, and it could become a new source of (mostly; entirely is impossible) unbiased news reporting. Stability AI, the firm behind the Stable Diffusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}