My Shrinking World -- January 22, 2023

According to the website, our floor plan, A6, has 919 square feet: described as one bedroom, one bath but, in fact, has an additional small den off the living room.

I can now spend 75% of my time in the apartment in the bedroom. The bedroom cannot be greater than 25% of the entire apartment which would make it 250 square feet but it seems much bigger, more like 20 x 20, or 400 square feet.

Tonight it was sublime in the bedroom. In my easy chair with hearty -- very hearty -- nachos, watching the Dallas football game on the "relatively" big screen and Hulu. Surrounded by books and with my MacBook Air, it was a wonderful night. We are lucky to have a huge bedroom that faces the DFW international airport.

The football game is over and I quickly transitioned to music -- first, Hulu music documentaries; later I will switch to YouTube, and then finally to Alexa / Amazon / Echo. 

The "internet" is quiet.

North Dakota Permits -- Summary -- 2022

Total permits: 814.

By operator (select, not double-checked; probably correct within one or two):

• Bowline: 7
• BR: 16
• CLR: 154 (+ two SWD permits)
• Enerplus: 42
• EOG: 2
• Grayson Mill: 65
• Hess: 84 (+ three SWD permits)
• Iron Oil: 8
• Kraken: 43
• MRO: 52
• Oasis: 47
• Slawson: 17
• Whiting: 38
• WPX: 13
  

Who Saw This Coming? January 22, 2023

Updates

January 23, 2023: MSFT up one percent today; pays 1.12%.

January 23, 2023: less than 24 hours later, this:

Original Post

Will ChatGPT complement or threaten Wikipedia?

Right now, indications are such that ChatGPT will be significantly more authoritative (and useful?) than Wikipedia. 

OpenAI: 

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc.

The company conducts research in the field of AI with the stated goal of promoting and developing friendly AI in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. [Going public and making money is not mutually exclusive for a company with a goal of promoting and developing friendly AI. Just saying. And look who is most closely aligned with OpenAI -- next few paragraphs].

The organization was founded in San Francisco in late 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others, who collectively pledged $1 billion USD.

Musk resigned from the board in 2018 but remained a donor.

In 2019, OpenAI LP received a US$1 billion investment from Microsoft. OpenAI is headquartered at the Pioneer Building in Mission District, San Francisco.

ChatGPT:

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer)is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3 family of large language models, and is fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning[2]) with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques

ChatGPT was launched as a prototype on November 30, 2022, and quickly garnered attention for its detailed responses and articulate answers across many domains of knowledge. Its uneven factual accuracy was identified as a significant drawback.

Following the release of ChatGPT, OpenAI was valued at $29 billion.

I Think I'll Skip The Dallas Game And Go Biking -- January 22, 2023

 ... said no one ever.

Later: end of third quarter. There's a lot of game left with the score 16 - 12, with SF over Dallas at the start of the fourth quarter, but how can you not be impressed with Brock Purdy? Has he made any mistakes in this game yet? Dak? At least two. Interceptions, including one that was a 'killer." 

Purdy: a third string back-up quarter; "Mr Irrelevant" in the draft. And handily beating Dak!

Tight end Kettle -- he has a future ... in show biz! Fifth round draft pick after coming out of ... University of Iowa ... university of what? Iowa.

Great game.

Stephen A. is going to be intolerable Monday morning.

If Jerry Jones doesn't change personnel this next week ... demonstrates great patience.

The MVP? Brock Purdy.

SF vs Philadelphia Eagles.

Bengals vs Mahomes.

The Mac Mini -- Server Farms -- Huge -- January 22, 2023

Where does Apple assemble the Mac mini? Not in China.

What about the MacBook Pros?

The Mac minis and the MacBook Pros got the first M2 chips.

Spend some time going down this rabbit hole. This is huge and Apple fanboys have seen this coming and have followed this for years. First hardware to get the newest Apple chips: the Mac mini and the MacBook Pro. 

Link here.

MacStadium.

Facebook, stack of Mac minis.

Amazon, Mac mini M1.

Scaleway.

Global Upstream CAPEX To Increase A Whopping Twelve Percent In 2023 -- Think SLB? January 24, 2023

Link here.

For Investors Only -- January 22, 2023

Link here to The WSJ.  

Al Gore, Joe Biden, and the MSM will spend a lot of "time" on renewable energy but that's not where investors are going to be making their money in 2023. They may be plowing their money into renewables, but they're not going too make much money.

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DRAM vs NAND

DRAM: wiki.

NAND flash: wiki.

Link here.

Nvidia, link here:

 

What We're Going To Be Talking About This Year: CBDC -- No, Not Cannibas Oil -- January 22, 2023

At the sidebar at the right, I have a link to "The Next Big Thing."

Wiki link here.

Was Norway the first?

And, yes, Virginia, the US is already there. Whoo-hoo!

For the record, I think it's awesome. 

So, Saudi Arabia, China, and others are trying to move to a new currency. They are already so far behind.

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Flashback: Ten Years Ago

EVs -- Not For Me -- January 22, 2023

Safe in your attached garage, but not safe on ships. 

Link here.

For more, link here.

The Scanlan And Pankowski Wells Have Been Updated -- January 22, 2023

Link here. 

A previous update with better graphics.

Americans On The Move: U-Haul and United Van Lines Survey, Released 2023 For 2022 Data

Super-rich New Yorkers: moving to Florida, Texas, and Arizona.  Link here.

United Van Lines. Link here.

U-Haul: link here.

New NDIC Permits In North Dakota For Calendar Year, 2023, As Of January 20, 2023

There will be typographical and content errors. The list includes at least one SWD well.

January 3, 2023	39541	Grayson Miill	Knight 35-26F	MCK	Banks
January 3, 2023	39542	Grayson Miill	Knight 35-26F 6H	MCK	Banks
January 3, 2023	39543	Grayson Miill	Knight 35-26F 7TFH	MCK	Banks
January 3, 2023	39544	Grayson Miill	Knight 35-26F XE 1H	MCK	Banks
January 5, 2023	39545	Hunt	Redmond 157-89-19-30H 3	MNT	Clear Water
January 5, 2023	39546	Hunt	Redmond 157-89-19-30H 4	MNT	Clear Water
January 5, 2023	39547	Hunt	Redmond 157-89-19-30H 5	MNT	Clear Water
January 5, 2023	39548	Petro-Hunt	Terres 44-98-13B-24-1H	BIL	Little Knife
January 5, 2023	39549	Petro-Hunt	Terres 144-98-13A-24-2H	BIL	Little Knife
January 6, 2023	39550	Whiting	S-Bar Joanna 5393 34-1 6B	MNT	Sanish
January 6, 2023	39551	Whiting	S-Bar Devon 5393 34-1 7T	MNT	Sanish
January 6, 2023	39552	Five States Operating	RH 1-8H	Stark	Rocky Hill
January 6, 2023	39553	Neptune Operating	Gibbins LE 11-2 1H	WMS	Painted Woods
January 6, 2023	39554	Neptune Operating	Gibbins 11-2 3H	WMS	Painted Woods
January 6, 2023	39555	Neptune Operating	Gibbins 11-2 2H	WMS	Painted Woods
January 9, 2023	39556	CLR	Fuller 9-2H1	DUN	Little Knife
January 9, 2023	39557	CLR	Fuller 10-2H	DUN	Little Knife
January 9, 2023	39558	CLR	Fuller 11-2H1	DUN	Little Knife
January 9, 2023	39559	CLR	Fuller 12-2HSL	DUN	Little Knife
January 10, 2023	39560	Oasis	Hagen Federal 5792 43-31 2B	MNT	Cottonwood
January 10, 2023	39561	Oasis	Hagen Federal 5792 43-31 3B	MNT	Cottonwood
January 10, 2023	39562	Oasis	Hagen Federal 5792 43-31 4B	MNT	Cottonwood
January 13, 2023	39563	Kraken	Blaine 33-28 2H	WMS	Oliver
January 13, 2023	39564	Kraken	Blaine 33-28 3H	WMS	Oliver
January 13, 2023	39565	Kraken	Cass 4-9 4H	WMS	Oliver
January 13, 2023	39566	Kraken	Cass 4-9 5H	WMS	Oliver
January 13, 2023	39567	CLR	Edward 3-23H	DUN	Little Knife
January 17, 2023	39568	Prima Exploration	Elzy Lay 2H	WMS	Ft Buford
January 17, 2023	39569	CLR	Eclipse SWD	DUN	Jim Creek
January 17, 2023	39570	Challenger Point Energy	Jacobson 13-6	BRK	Woburn
January 17, 2023	39571	Challenger Point Energy	Jacobson 11-6	BRK	Woburn
January 18, 2023	39572	Ovintiv	Barracuda 150-100-2-11-8H	MCK	Sandrocks
January 18, 2023	39573	Ovintiv	Barracuda 150-100-2-1—9H	MCK	Sandrocks
January 18, 2023	39574	Ovintiv	Fleck 150-100-1-12-1HLW	MCK	Sandrocks
January 19, 2023	39575	Iron Oil	Buffalo 5-17-20H	MCK	Buffalo Wallow
January 19, 2023	39576	Iron Oil	Buffalo 4-17-20H	MCK	Buffalo Wallow
January 20, 2023	39577	Prima Exploration	Elzy Lay 1H	WMS	Ft Buford
January 20, 2023	39578	Hess	CA-Anderson Smith-155-96-2635H-7	WMS	Capa
January 20, 2023	39579	Hess	CA-Anderson Smith-155-96-2635H-8	WMS	Capa
January 20, 2023	39580	Hess	CA-Anderson 155-96-2635H-9	WMS	Capa
January 20, 2023	39581	Hess	CA-Anderson-155-96-2635H-10	WMS	Capa
January 20, 2023	39582	Hess	CA-Anderson-155-96-27-34H-1	WMS	Capa