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Meanwhile in Melbourne..

An Australian start-up has launched the "first commercialised biological computer" made of human brain cells at a conference in Barcelona.

The team behind it believe it could be used as a type of simple biological AI, but others are cautious about the technology's ...

The other poll (betting odds)..

From TAB

Labor - 2.55
Liberal - 1.5

But also from TAB

Majority Government - 2.5
Minority Government - 1.48

Which is interesting combination as if it is going to be a minority government I dare say it will be a Labor one with the Greens (and Teals), which I ...

Saw a post on Twitter, mentioning a new political party.


From their web page

No. The Muslim Vote is not a political party , and it does not intend to become either of these in the future. The Muslim Vote is a united collective mobilising the grassroots to participate in the electoral process ...

The next thing that should happen is that variable feed-in rates are rolled out,

I actually have that at the moment, the highest feed-in rate is around 7-10pm, but it is only a few cents more than the lowest rate.. So after the 0.04c rollout in July those will be adjusted, but I am guessing (If ...

Victoria drops solar feed in rebate further, now 3.3 cents per kwh. At the same time retail prices are still rising meaning household battery storage is becoming a necessity in Vic.

Well I should probably update this, the rate in Victoria will be (as of July 2025) only 0.04 of a cent per kwh ...

the Trump/Musk backed far right AfD in Germany underperformed so it looks like they won't get any representation in government. They still increased their vote share, but I suspect that as Trump/Musk craters the economy for the US and the rest of the world it may have negative effects on the far ...

pipbarber wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:12 pmThat combined with the profound disappointment that is the current government, we're facing political oblivion.

I believe, if Albo loses, that would make it the first time since James Scullin's 1929 government that one of the major parties only served a single term at the federal level.

I use pseudonyms nowadays. Keeps the stalkers at bay. Learned from the mistake of using my real name long ago. That would have been way back in the early naughties.

Fuck off Wayne; no one likes you!


Wayne is perma-banned, sorry for any headaches his bullshit caused or any broken threads as ...

joele wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:19 pm why would anyone believe them at face value regarding how much they spent training/developing it?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/deepsee ... eport.html

It is winning because the Chinese mode of industrial domination is the same as the Japanese mode before it... you begin with cheap, inferior copies, then you take over from there. "Made in Japan" used to be a synonym for crappy poor quality, now it's the opposite. Originality and innovation are ...