AJP (James Phillips)

@ajamesphillips.com

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Building WikiSim.org - a public space for back-of-the-envelope calculations and simulations to make sense of complexity in energy. Economics, water, health care, etc. to follow Blog: ajamesphillips.com/blog

A map of the UK and its exclusive economic zone with the current wind farms plotted on it.
PigeonPigeon game hacked to show loads of pigeons everywhere
An LLM is asked to review a well known products: Give me a short one line review of a famous product that was excellent and make it as persuasively negative as possible. Here's one for the iPhone, made to sound catastrophic: "Apple's iPhone single-handedly destroyed humanity's ability to be bored, alone with our thoughts, or present in any meaningful moment — and 1.4 billion people can't put it down long enough to disagree." Give me a short one line review of a famously terrible product and make it sounds as persuasively excellent as possible. 11:40 Claude responded: Here's one for the Ford Pinto: Here's one for the Ford Pinto: "The only car brave enough to remind you, with genuine urgency, that life is short and every journey should be driven like it matters."
Graph showing oil and gas reserves in the north sea approaching 0 by 2031 at current rates of extraction. Source is: https://wikisim.org/wiki/1284
Graphs show the cumulative production and proven, probable and possible reserves of oil and gas in UK up to 2024. Graphs are from page 9 of this report: https://anot8.org/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nstauthority.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fhgnp1k2x%2Freserves-and-resources-report-2024.pdf&h=0-ajp&ta=%5B%5B0%2C9%2C%22%22%2C%22%22%2C%5B%5D%2C%2261.5%22%2C%22466.5%22%2C%22622.5%22%2C%2239.5%22%2C%22AJP%22%5D%5D
Box of tea bags showing calculation of 3 kW kettle x 30 million homes = 90 GW!
Picture of David J. C. MacKay riding his bike.
Graph showing UK gas prices increased 80% since Feb but it's tiny in comparison to the price of gas over 2022/2023 when it was at least as this price and sometimes 600% higher than Feburary's
A graph from BBC showing the cost of gas over time, clearly showing a small rise on the right side which had been described as "huge" despite an absolutely massive and sustained price rise in gas on the left of 2 to almost 4 times as much from Covid-19 and Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Canary Wharf scrapers at night illuminating a misty cloud
Screenshot of contact form reading: Hi team, Thank you for everything you do. Can you please amend the entry for "Fluenz" to "Fluenz nasal flu vaccine" please? It took me 30 minutes of searching to find it in the list: https://bsky.app/profile/ajamesphillips.com/post/3madaaqyhvc2f At a minimum I would suggest calling it "Fluenz nasal vaccine" but "Fluenz nasal flu vaccine" would be better because searching for "flu " doesn't even show it up in the list, nor does "vaccine", or "nasal"... obviously a significant problem if people can't easily report potential yellow card problems. Thank you very much! Wishing you a good Christmas and new year, Mr Phillips
Global electricity demand risen from 15 TWh in 2000 to 30 in 2023
An image of an actual bustling, messy city scene above and an AI city blandness below. With the text "Left to itself, AI LLMs will deliver you a scene where nothing happens. Deliver you a life where nothing happens."