About the equivalent of running a microwave for one second for a median query

www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

Someone had some statistic a few weeks ago comparing it to the cost of running a household on electricity for 24 hours. And I worked out that what they were saying was that *if* I ran an AI query every second all day I *might* get close to matching my household bill!

Still a lot of excess fluid to lose. And people now to see quite regularly - nephrologist, cardiac consult, practice diabetic nurse and so on. But based on only the last couple of days of glucose readings from my Abbott Libre continuous monitor, it's likely less of an uphill struggle

And of course, no credit control team trying to bankrupt me for what must have been thousands of pounds worth of work.

...as a matter of urgency. Staff amazing. I've had 3/4 doctors either deal with me directly or review my case. Half a dozen HCAs administering tests etc. A couple of nurses doing treatment. And basically not a word of judgment even if it is largely all my own indolence that has caused it.

Will they have braziers on the picket line? Be the warmest place on the campus to be I expect judging by the state of the place this week!

Nearly a third of the city's households have no access to a car. If only we could find a way of either matching homes with parking to households with cars or making it prohibitively expensive for people to steal a five meter by three meter stretch of the public highway to store their contraption on.

I wish the companies and county would come up with a route numbering system whereby you could tell immediately which of them is running a particular service. Had a minor panic there because I thought they had dropped 100 and 700!