CHARBONNEAU – Big governments in the West look to success in China
IN 1978, CHINA LOOKED to the West for industrial policy and implemented capitalism as a method of reform. Now the West is looking to China’s big government model of [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Kamloops’ rating of high wildfire risk is doubtful
WHY WOULD a small Toronto-based insurance broker release arcane data that shows Kamloops to be at highest risk of wildfires — in all of Canada? BC Wildfire Service fire [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Canadian team unmasks the dark underside of GPT-4o
A CANADIAN TEAM has easily unmasked the ugly side of GPT-4o, a side that exists in all chatbots but is usually covered up. It only took a few seconds for the team, [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – One big grid would solve our future electricity needs
WE FACE TWO PROBLEMS that a Trans Canada electrical grid would solve. Renewable sources face a storage problem. When the wind blows and the sun shines, turbines and solar [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – AI is hungry for electricity, thirsty for water
WE HEAR A LOT about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence but little about mundane things such as how to feed the lumbering savant. The promise is that generative [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Huxley’s futuristic solution to the ‘drug problem’
ALDOUS HUXLEY came up with a solution to the drug problem of the day in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley’s book is set in the World State city of London in AD [Continue]
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