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And you say that as if this is a... bad thing?

I always thought they were spread apart so much to further reduce the chance of catastrophic spread of fire from one container to another.

That would be a lot harder if you stack them since heat likes to rise.

But no clue if that is the actual reason.

I mean, both is important. Pumped hydro can have quite large amounts of storage, but supply comparatively little W of power.

Not really in developing countries which the OP is talking about.

While most developed countries have aerial imaging campaigns on some recurrent schedule (NAIP in the US is on a rolling 3-year cycle), this is usually not the case in developing countries.

Quite a few never had any large scale aerial imaging campaigns and most do not have them on regular schedules.

Kind of. Free satellite data starts at 10m resolution per pixel. You will not get a clear signal on small rooftop solar. Same for balcony solar or other near perpendicular installations.

At 10m the only thing you can reliably detect is large scale deployments. If you want to do better than that you need paid data which is prohibitively expensive at large scales.

Obsession with triangles so the GPU can show millions of polygons on a webmap.

Ah fun! I had a period in my life where for some reason I attracted 3 different people within 2 months which were all missing their permanent lateral incisors.

It was really interesting to see, for one person nothing was done whatsoever, she just has 4 smallish gaps (and just generally a bit wonky teeth). For one person, the gap was closed by moving the other teeth closer with braces. She also doesn't really have many problems. The only one with consistent problems is the one where they moved the teeth apart to install implants. Just constant problems with infection, pain, broken implants etc etc.

So just from that anecdote it seemed like in this case implants only cause issues.

Got any in a single category which all start with Alpha and named by the same organization? Say something like... I don't know... Deep learning models published by Google?

If there's 10 breakfast cereals from the same company all starting with Alpha, I would give you some credit. But like this I don't even know what your reply is trying to tell me.

I honestly feel like I am taking crazy pills here.

That's because Google Deepmind has consistently used AlphaSomething for their scientific models. Not for their consumer models which are Gemini, but their models which are more cutting edge and specific to niche problems.

Let's list them!

AlphaZero, AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaGenome, AlphaEarth, AlphaGeometry, AlphaProteo, AlphaTensor.

There are some revolutionary models in there. Especially AlphaZero and AlphaFold. AlphaFold even won a nobel price in 2024.

I would strongly argue against that. I would argue that Google Deepmind has consistently used AlphaSomething for their scientific models. Not for their consumer models which are Gemini, but their models which are more cutting edge and specific to niche problems.

Let's list them!

AlphaZero, AlphaGo, AlphaFold, AlphaGenome, AlphaEarth, AlphaGeometry, AlphaProteo, AlphaTensor.

There's a reason why so many people in the comments here thought that this was a model from Google.

Edit: Just looked through Wikipedia. Here's a few more: AlphaProof, AlphaDev, AlphaEvolve, AlphaStar, AlphaChip

As far as I know Apple also does not own "i" or McDonalds owns "Mc".

If you're creating a Burger called McSomething or a device called iWhatever it does not feel like "paying homage" to Apple/McDonalds, it feels more like copying and trying to capture some audience from this bigger player.

You've supported them for all of "checks git history" 2 days!

What a track record!

10 years? That's nothing. Flooding Hambach will take approximately 40 years. And that includes water from the Rhine carried there by pipeline, which in the current state of the Rhine is... optimistic.

Yes

Alphabet is also the biggest holder of PlanetLabs at around 10%.

PlanetLabs is the company providing the satellite bus infrastructure to Google for this project.