Do you think it has anything to do with this (Internet going down)?
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From Covid and Coffee (he's a lawyer)- "We have not yet heard from Lake’s group, except for a tweet saying they’d be making a big announcement today. Kari has previously sworn that, if she lost, she’d appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court.
This result is predictable, even expected. When I filed my mask lawsuit against the county in 2020, I knew that it would be almost impossible that the trial judge would take on the political burden of becoming the country’s first anti-mask judge. She gave me all I could really hope for: a fairly-conducted hearing, a quick, appealable order, and she let me create the record I needed for the inevitable appeal.
Had anyone from Kari’s team asked me, I would’ve predicted the same thing for her trial. They needed to be getting all the necessary evidence into the record, but planning for the inevitable appeal. It looks like the judge did let them get the evidence in, which is a great blessing. In other words, the judge kept his hands clean, but passed the decision buck up the line — where it would’ve inevitably gone anyway.
It’s too simplistic to say the judge should’ve been courageous and ruled for Kari no matter what. His decision would’ve only carried symbolic weight, and why potentially ruin your career to make a symbol? It’s not irrational that a judge could’ve concluded it was better to help by conducting a fair trial, getting everything in the record, and letting the plaintiff take it up to the appellate court, as opposed to the defendant.
It’s true that in most cases it’s better to win at the trial level, because it is vastly easier to defend an appeal than try to get a reversal. But that calculus goes out the window in politically-charged cases like this. Believe me. This case was always going to be decided by Arizona’s Supreme Court, one way or the other, regardless of what happened at trial."
The Chinese are already in on it - coming up with different catalyst, e.g. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.1c03067
But it was Steve Amendola who came up with this.
I can only speculate but we were a small company that went public and the board brought in a CEO who had worked for a large company (Air Liquide). He brought in quite a few people from Air Liquide, pushed the inventor Steve Amendola to the side and the politics went bad.
One of our problems was bringing down the price of sodium borohydride (which is high) and we never achieved that. We would have probably tried other catalysts than Ru but the sodium borohydride cost was our primary concern.
Steve Amendola was a brilliant chemist and a nice guy. Unfortunately he died from cancer a few years ago. He's the kind of guy you could just call and he would talk to you. His jokes were the best!
You can search for Steve Amendola and hydrogen. Here's a patent
https://patents.justia.com/patent/20070217994
No one really thought about that. Most of the people who worked there were chemists and they think only about chemical reactions. Now that hydrogen powered cars are becoming more popular for development, tests on hydrogen embrittlement are being done. It is bad for the HS steels used in car engines,
Yes, the hydrogen was produced in the bronco. Here's a summary- A novel, simple, convenient, and safe, chemical process generates high purity hydrogen gas on demand from stable, aqueous solutions of sodium borohydride, NaBH,, and ruthenium based (Ru), catalyst. When NaBH, solution contacts Ru catalyst, it spontaneously hydrolyzes to form H, gas and sodium borate, a water-soluble, inert salt. When H, is no longer required, Ru is removed from the solution and H, generation stops. Since this H, generator is safer, has quicker response to H, demand, and is more efficient, than commonly used H, generators, it is ideal for portable applications.
I worked for a startup called Millennial Cell in Eatontown, NJ that produced hydrogen for cars. We made it from NaBH4 in alkaline solution that produced hydrogen as you needed it. It was called Hydrogen on Demand. We took an old Ford Bronco and converted it. We rode around our industrial park and just kept increasing the speed to see how fast it would go (it got up to 50 mph). A cop stopped us. Here are 4 people in white lab coats and goggles writing down notes in the car. We told the cop what we were doing and he said, well, I think I heard something about that but just stay at the speed limit and he let us go without a ticket.
Clif does present his information in a professorial way. Hey - he doesn't believe that gravity exists and of course, he had to include space aliens, But then again. he is uncle Clif :-) and I enjoy many of the topics he brings up.
Clif does mention that we can lose jobs - he gives an example of law clerks, insurance, finance, government, medical jobs where you handle text. Anything that requires handling paper (and words). It also includes jobs that require design like boat making, It reminds me of a kind of more computerized CAD. He says that AI will be more like an assistant for many jobs. It will perform a lot of the nuisance paperwork. We will still need IT jobs, especially for coding. But he says it does not replace creativity. I remember reading about GE trying to use a kind of AI years ago to build and maintain the many kinds of mechanical systems they sold. They found out that it all worked out well until there was a trouble shooting event. Humans were needed for solutions. They concluded that you could not exclude humans from their workforce.
I agree with you that there is a strong demand by industry for AI implementation. I read a lot of monthly magazines on the energy sector and manufacturing and they are all chirping it up. It's the next "disruptive" technology. We will probably hire a lot of H1B Visa people to do that work. That's where I see USA job loss. Probably will need a large help desk!
I attended a Zoom meeting last at a university where I work and they are pushing AI for classwork. Some profs are going to form focus groups to try it out. Yet many profs don't like it because there is no real way to evaluate plagiarism. Duh I asked my students if they use AI and most don't. Those that do, say they use it for things like cover letters, repetitive and boring writing like that. But they told me that they all like the hands-on work we do (I teach a science class). It will not be simple to get the younger generation on board.
The state I live in a blue, very metropolitan state that still uses fax instead of email for things like paperwork for pensions)!
I think Clif has given us a good presentation on many of the aspects of AI that concern ordinary people. He built his own linguistic computer system and the man is into words. He started this podcast by talking about how he asked people like store clerks and tree loggers how they felt about AI.
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Case update!
The United States Solicitor General filed a waiver which waves her right to oppose the petition 22-1028 before it goes to conference.
Now the Supreme Court can set a date for conference.
If they do it soon, the conference date will be set in the last part of June. if they wait to set the date, it will be scheduled in October because of the break.