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Sunday, January 22, 2023

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, 2023less 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.

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.

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