First of all, very impressive specs and engineering. I read that CATL has 10 years of manufacturing records kept at part and batch level in their highly automated ‘lighthouse’ factory that makes the C5 batteries, and attain a very low defect rate and sophisticated battery monitoring(including cloud and charge-station monitoring).

However, in light of the huge uplift in charge speed and lifetime I honestly wonder how many of the chemicals that seem to be the key to enabling this durability are polyfluoridated, as I’m concerned for the enduring damage of increasing use of forever chemicals in lithium batteries.

Several material-level innovations underpin the battery’s performance. The cathode uses a specialized protective coating designed to reduce breakdown and prevent the loss of metal ions during rapid charging and discharging. The electrolyte contains an additive that detects microscopic cracks and seals them before damage spreads. The separator also plays a role. It features a temperature-responsive coating that reduces ion movement when localized heat builds up.

Post discussing alternative environmentally (yet still highly effective) chemicals and the heavy use of PFAS in present lithium battery tech: https://lemmy.ca/post/59879684

Does the screen at least have some other functionality - like telling you when the tank is full, or something?

Or is it just a little digital billboard of sadness.

(Edit) - dunno why so many people feel the need to give ‘um actually; that’s redundant’ replies when none actually answer my question - I still don’t know if it only displays ads.

Gonna answer all questions at the same time instead of sending three identical replies:

To this day many (perhaps even most) people still don’t know that petrol tanks in vehicles require some air space at the top to allow room for fuel expansion and vapours - and that you should definitely stop filling at the first click.

Overfilling by continuing after the first click often leads to liquid fuel getting into the charcoal canister or fuel tank breather. A reminder to stop filling on the little screen could be beneficial.

The same Melius Finance that gave Tesla stock its highest rating of “must own” due to Elon lying again that Full Self Drive is being deployed imminently to Teslas via their in-house “AI chips” eta Dec 2025?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-stock-must-own-melius-220721932.html

Tesla stock is currently at $416 after a high of $474 in November, around when this call was made.

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Well well, some very lucky ICE agents moving up in the world - first they were just Gestapo but now they’re graduating to full SS.

Correct spelling is the fundamental component of words, without words there is no vocabulary. Without understanding words, LLMs have absolutely no understanding of vocabulary. They can certainly spew out things they’ve tokenized and weighted from ingested inputs though - like when people trick it into believing false definitions through simply repeating them as correct and thereby manipulating (or poisoning) the weighting. ChatGPT and other LLMs regularly fail to interpret common parts of vocabulary - eg idioms, word spellings, action-reaction consequences in a sentence. They’re fancy autocomplete, filled with stolen (and occasionally licensed) data.

Sure seems like the problem isn’t me or the other guy ‘dont know how to use LLMs’, but rather that they keep getting sold as something they’re not.

Congrats though, you just used a 100 billion dollar machine array to more or less output the exact content of a Wikipedia article - you really proved your point that it’s very good when you know what to ask it, and us plebs are just dumb at questions, or something 👍 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platitude

The ongoing shitfuckery by the US in forcing their corporations to hand over sovereign-nation data hosted in other nations datacenters (CLOUD Act), amongst many of their present stupidities, is fucking amazing for IT sovereignty and open source.

I couldn’t have convinced the organizations and businesses I worked with in the past to move to more than a few niche open source products for tiny userbases, which I made sure they donated to. To suggest moving to a solution outside of the Garner Magic Quadrant for that particular business need / role for anything larger than dozen users was just “objectively illogical”, I couldn’t have put forth a winning business case proposal in 100 years.

But now they’re doing it out of spite to the US government and finally seeing the light.

There’s a lot of bad things going on in the world, but this… this is great.

This is the ‘next level natural language technology’?

Always some AI white knights in the comments, bravely telling people ‘you’re using AI wrong. you’re ignorant. you’re uneducated about generative AI’, as though this isn’t literally the first thing that the market-leader OpenAI suggests you use it for presently.

Claude is AMAZING. The future is now! Its actually very hard to trip it up with complex trick questions like “Spell ‘blueberry’” nowadays. Check out what it said when I asked it just now what tomorrow’s date is (I even gave this doctorate degree-level intellect a clue that it’s in 2026).

I asked it to show its reasoning so I could help it to understand my complex query, and got this very insightful reasoning process.

Reasoning…

Wearegiven:“Whatdateof2026isittomorrow?“Note:Thecurrentyearis2023,sotheuserisaskingaboutafuturedaterelativetoanunknown"today"in2026.However,withoutknowingthecurrentdate(in2026)wecannotcompute"tomorrow”.Thus,wemustclarifythattheanswerdependsonthecurrentdate.Butnote:Theusermightbeaskingthisquestiononaspecificday,sowecanassumethatthe"today"inthequestionisthedaywhenthequestionisbeingasked?However,thequestionisabout2026,whichisinthefuture.Sincewedon’thaveaspecificreferencedatein2026,wecannotgiveaspecificanswer.Therefore,thethoughtprocessshouldleadtoaresponsethatexplainsthedependencyandperhapsprovidesawaytocomputeitifthecurrentdatewereknown.Let’sbreakdown:1.Thequestion:“Whatdateof2026isittomorrow?”-Thisimpliesthattomorrowisadayintheyear2026.2.However,thecurrentdate(the"today"fromwhichwearecountingtomorrow)isnotprovided.Withoutknowingtoday’sdatein2026,wecannotdeterminetomorrow’sdate.3.Possibilities:a)Iftheuserisaskingthisquestionin2026,thenwecouldusethecurrentdate.Butthecurrentyearis2023,sowearenotin2026.b)Theusermightbeaskinghypothetically,butwithoutareference,wecannotcompute.4.Therefore,theanswermustbeconditionalonknowingthecurrentdate.5.Wecanprovideageneralmethod:-Tomorrow’sdatein2026isonedayafterthecurrentdate(whichmustbein2026).-Forexample,iftodayisJanuary1,2026,thentomorrowisJanuary2,2026.6.Butnote:Thequestionsays"dateof2026”,soweareonlyconcernedwithdatesintheyear2026.IftodayisDecember31,2026,thentomorrowwouldbeJanuary1,2027,whichisnotin2026.Sothequestionimpliesthattomorrowmustalsobein2026.7.Therefore,theanswerisonlydefinedfordatesin2026fromJanuary1toDecember30(becauseonDecember31,tomorrowwouldbein2027).SowemustalsonotethatifthecurrentdateisDecember31,2026,thentomorrowisnotin2026.8.Approachfortheresponse:-Explainthatwithoutknowingthecurrentdatein2026,wecannotgiveaspecificanswer.-Providethegeneralrule:tomorrow’sdateisthenextdayinthecalendarafterthecurrentdate.-NotethatthecurrentdatemustbebetweenJanuary1,2026andDecember30,2026fortomorrowtoalsobein2026.-Iftheuserhasaspecificcurrentdateinmind,theycanprovideitandwecancompute.9.However,notethattheusermightbeaskingthisonaparticularday(say,thedaytheyareaskingthequestion)butin2026?Thatdoesn’tmakesensebecausewearein2023.Sowemustclarifythatwearein2023and2026isinthefuture.10.Alternativeinterpretation:Theusermightbeaskingforthedateoftomorrowintheyear2026,meaningiftodayisthesamedayoftheyearin2026asitisnowin2023?Butthatisnotastandardinterpretationandthequestiondoesnotspecify.11.Conclusion:Thequestionisambiguouswithoutareferencepoint.Wemustaskforthecurrentdatein2026orexplainthatweneedthatinformation.Butnote:Theusermightbeaskingthisquestiononaspecificday(say,June15,2023)andwanttoknowwhatdateitwouldbetomorrowin2026?Thatis,thesamedayoftheyear?However,thequestiondoesnotspecifythat.Let’sre-read:"Whatdateof2026isittomorrow?“Thisisambiguous.Itcouldmean:OptionA:“Iftodayissomedayin2026,whatdateistomorrow(in2026)?”->requiresknowingtodayin2026.OptionB:“Whatistomorrow’sdate(in2023)andthenwhatwouldthatsamedaybein2026?”->butthatwouldbethesamedayoftheyear,buttheyearchanges.However,thequestionsays"dateof2026”,soOptionBwouldnotbeadatein2026iftomorrowin2023isin2023.Forexample

I pressed ‘Stop’ because I’m pretty sure the poor guy was in a logic loop, and I didn’t want to heat up the oceans any further with my diabolically-complex line of query.

Oh, they’re not but I guess you’d have to ask him for the answer. Those videos are both still up if you want to watch a long stream of misogyny and logical fallacies dressed up as an ‘owning’.

The “Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning atheism”, “Feminism Vs FACTS” chud?

I’m surprised he still has an audience tbh. Well, sadly not that surprised.

The majority of the US citizenry have been convinced that strikes and unions are tools of communism, despite the USA’s long history of successful strikes and industrial action, all due to ~70 years of red scare propaganda. Voting is a ‘waste of time’ or ‘rigged by the EC’ so a full third don’t bother.

So those tools don’t exist to them, and now they’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas.

I think guns are possibly a deterrent at protests (as you allude), but with the heavily-armed govt as the adversary and the legal system largely on their side and their trigger-happy history… I think it’ll turn into a massacre. Trump will likely use it to seize additional emergency powers, and go full steam ahead with any fascist dreams he has for the next three years.

Who knows, maybe wide violence is inevitable now to get out of the frog-in-pot incremental fascism the US public have been in for a long time now (at least 10 years).

I wish them every success in overcoming Trump and his MAGA admin, and I hope they remember how poorly appeasement has worked out for them after winning the last civil war.