Tootfinder

Last week, I had the honour of presenting my work on smart charging and V2G to the IEA's Transport Project Partnership.
https://www.iea.org/news/the-iea-convenes-transport-project-partnership-to-examine-the-topics…

The IEA convenes Transport Project Partnership to examine the topics shaping the transport sector - News - IEA
The IEA convenes Transport Project Partnership to examine the topics shaping the transport sector - News from the International Energy Agency

Two Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate
in response to what they describe as the Trump administration’s “failure to provide a briefing to lawmakers” on the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Lujšn of New Mexico, who both sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
said in a statement on Tuesday that “there can be no business as usual …

"For Levy and Newborn, the stakes were clear, and the title of the first chapter of the book says it all: “The Challenge is World Champion Kasparov”. Said chapter describes in detail the match between a first iteration of a chess supercomputer by IBM, the less well-known “Deep Thought”. It was a strong contender, having defeated quite a few grandmasters along the way (including the aforementioned Levy), but was no match for Kasparov in August 1989."

David Levy & Monty Newborn
The literature about and around chess is too long to enumerate in an article of a thousand words, and this is clearly not my intent. If you want to learn chess, there are so many good books around, it is hard to pick just one. There are, however, fewer books explaining the art of how to teach a computer to play chess; and the one chosen for this issue of the Library section does a magnificent job at precisely that.

It's got to the point in the year where I can't put off doing the self-assessment tax returns any longer.
It's not too hard - I know where to get all the numbers, but it's always interesting to see how close my rough & ready spreadsheet will be to the amount actually owed.
Not that I object to paying taxes: #WhishyLiberalLefty

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: That's right it is! [Points to teleport controls.]
VILA: A straightforward pickup job you said. As last words go, they're not likely to be famous.
TARRANT: You should worry.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/52 B7B6

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

The Trump administration is planning to furlough the vast majority of the civilian staff at a key agency that helps manage the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, which falls under the Energy Department,
will exhaust its available funding on Saturday,
according to the notice NNSA sent to lawmakers.
As a result, approximately 1,400 employees will be furloughed,
the notice states, while about 375 will remain on the job…

"Thanks to a series of relay stops (to swap electric tractors, drivers and trailers), each electric truck travels a daily distance of 810 km on the North loop and 704 km on the South loop. This system makes it possible to cover long distances without stopping the load."
https://www.renault-…

“Europe’s automakers need to be careful what they ask for on the regulatory front at home. Otherwise, they risk winning the battle but losing the war.
China got to where it is today by setting a long-term strategy and sticking to it. There’s a lesson there for Europe’s policymakers and auto industry.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115388996250482308
On the last day of voting before the elections, the populist farmer's party in the Dutch parliament managed to pass a motion instructing the Dutch government to ‘oppose the European ban on…