Anne Currie

@anne_e_currie

Author of SciFi Panopticon Series. Tech|Science|Ethics|Politics|Psychology|Art|Ecology|History|Future

London, England
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Joined September 2015
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    Jul 8

    The 5* Panopticon series: Utopia Five, Conundra, Denizen 43, & Dystopia X. "Thoughtful, page-turning, relevant & geeky!" "I loved this book" "Superb" 99p on Amazon. UK: US:

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  2. 19 hours ago

    2 robots are going to Mars. One Chinese. one US. They have different missions in mind (tl;dr one find life & gather stuff to come back, one geology & weather). The different power mechanisms are interesting.

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  3. Jul 30

    Mars! My latest scifi novel, which launched this month, is set on the same voyage !

    Congratulations to the team! 🎉The Hubble team wishes safe travels on her way to the Red Planet as we continue to !
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  4. Jul 29

    As the serverless expert, what's your opinion of their stuff ?

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  5. Jul 29

    I normally talk about which cloud vendor is best for hosting, but it's also worth considering the edge. is 100% offset (not ideal yet but OK) & CDNs are a way more efficient way of getting low latency if you need it.

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  6. Jul 27

    Note in my scifi the interesting part of stillsuits is the temperature maintenance rather than the water collection, which is probably the most important part of their function in Dune as well. It will be vitally important in our world in the next decade. Aircon doesn't cut it

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  7. Jul 27

    “Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”

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  8. Jul 27

    What can you do? Think about your latency reqs. If you have a latency insensitive workload like ML learning, then don't bloody run it in a mostly fossil fueled DC. THINK. Put it somewhere clean. IMO, running latency insensitive workloads dirty is the tech equivalent of evil

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  9. Jul 27

    Where DCs are located is vital. So, why are they ever built in places with crap renewables? Partly latency. Partly legacy, which often also originated from latency (e.g Virginia's DC dominance even though it's eco-awful).

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  10. Jul 27

    Think efficiency by all means but that's comparatively merely a nice to have. Think LOCATION first. That's the most important. Some places have more available renewable power than others.

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  11. Jul 27

    Tl;dr: host sustainably: , . If you must use AWS (they are literally - & I mean literally - 10 years behind the other two) then use their target greener regions of Ireland, Frankfurt, Canada, Oregon.

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  12. Jul 27

    This week, Adobe have asked me to give their techies a talk on sustainable practises, particularly around ML workloads. I will be talking about the modern tech equivalent of evil: running latency insensitive, cpu-heavy workloads in fossil-fueled DCs.

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  13. Jul 27

    Very good article on a post-event world, which is making the same point my Panopticon series makes & we see now with CV19. There is no post event. These kinds of events keep going and we have to incorporate how to handle them into society

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    Jul 26

    I’ve been asked by Chinese colleagues why western focusses protection on the individual, never the state, when both are important. I hadn’t noticed before, but speculated that it’s because in the 20C, you were way more likely to be killed by your own state than another.

    9/ my government did this to me. My own government. I was not shot by a random person in the street. A federal law enforcement officer pulled a trigger that sent an impact munition into my head. After being hit I was assisted greatly by several volunteer medics. At least one of
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  15. Jul 26

    "heat is already the deadliest weather phenomenon in the US, killing hundreds of people a year, more than floods, fires, earthquakes, lightning strikes, tornadoes, or hurricanes. With climate change, the threat is only getting worse"

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  16. Jul 26

    Dammit. Slap in the middle of a possible new CV19 spike in Clacton . Mostly young people apparently.

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    Jul 25

    I just finished the latest instalment and it’s great. If your like thinking about society wide problems and reading science fiction why not combine the two?

    The 5* Panopticon series: Utopia Five, Conundra, Denizen 43, & Dystopia X. "Thoughtful, page-turning, relevant & geeky!" "I loved this book" "Superb" 99p on Amazon. UK: US:
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    Jul 24

    “The Taylor persona is a rare in-the-wild example of a phenomenon that has emerged as a key anxiety of the digital age: The marriage of deepfakes and disinformation.” h/t

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  19. Jul 24

    NASA intend to attempt to fly a 1.8 kg drone on Mars on their next big mission (Mars' atmosphere is only 1% the density of Earth. Gravity there is about 40% of ours). Fascinating to see if it works.

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  20. Jul 23

    Sony invents a stillsuit (or a stillTshirt, at least). I discuss this in Utopia Five as a 30's invention, so 15 years early. Good stuff!

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  21. Jul 23

    Watched Neowise last night through binoculars (too faint to see with naked eye at 11pm, but the sky was still quite light and it's quite low). Very end of days. Definitely worth a look.

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