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deep thought

Since this morning, a wide variety of protocols have been coming in as well as the first drafts of posters. I'll put these in storage for today and look at them again tomorrow - please forgive me for this. Especially since I still have a little European hike ahead of me today.

But the real reason is that since the last conversation with me Detlef Stern think a little more about deep learning, inference machines and the question of the end of quantum computers. I realize that I don't have a single relevant book to hand and ChatGPT doesn't help much either. In the end I joined Douglas Adams - who actually knew the answer to everything.

Since we in Heilbronn are slowly but surely advancing into the digital universe and may even receive the first necessary infrastructure, I still don't understand why we don't have our own Supercomputer receive? This could very easily be connected to a new power plant, which would conveniently be right next to the IPAI, and its waste heat could be fed into the district heating network.

A few larger data centers, information highways and perhaps even more large computers could follow and make Heilbronn an AI hot spot in terms of infrastructure.

pipe dreams

A mayor who can only rely on the commitment of a multi-billionaire and is dependent on his support for better or for worse simply cannot move a city forward. And as we now unfortunately have to see, there is still only one fantasy after the other: university city, space city or AI metropolis - few market barkers can actually do anything with so-called artificial intelligence.

The IPAI will probably just be a nice Disneyland for wine, crate pushing or tourism. Even though I would like to experience it differently myself, I still doubt that enough scientists will be able to come to Heilbronn to be able to establish a center of intelligence there. The idea that you should be able to look over the shoulders of the scientists while they think is also funny.

Things are a little different with the rocket tests in Lampoldshausen, because they simply didn't want them in Stuttgart, Freiburg or Karlsruhe.

Unfortunately, it is to be feared that nothing will come of the new wool house that has been so well publicized. Maybe it would be a good idea to focus on your actual strengths instead of just fantasies. Then Heilbronn could continue to be a very attractive industrial and trading center. However, this requires the appropriate infrastructure and this has been being dismantled in Heilbronn for years.

However, if we Heilbronners were really serious about AI, we would also have to add butter to the fish and install one or two new nuclear power plants. At least for the time being, artificial intelligence is nothing more than slightly improved statistics paired with immense computing power. And this computing power requires an incredible amount of energy - one or two wind turbines on the Wartberg don't really help.

Fifth list

The Heilbronn Greens took a little longer than the others to find 40 candidates for the upcoming local council election. Maybe that's why I'm still waiting for an answer on another matter. But this Thursday they were able to present a list under the eyes of a few Green Party politicians who were more prominent, at least in Heilbronn.

Of the 40 candidates, I am the current group leader Holger Kimmerle known who inherited this position from his father. Wolf Theilacker, who made the Greens a little better known in Heilbronn back then - ages ago - is still there and is now likely to strive for a gerontocracy in Heilbronn. The rest I hardly know, if at all.

But the Greens, like the CDU and SPD, want to top their result from 2019 again. This will probably only succeed if you follow the state government and not only turn the state parliament into an XXL parliament, but also expand the Heilbronn municipal council to at least 60 municipal councils.

In addition, a few anti-democratic parties and voter groups in Heilbronn dream of seizing power; In this regard, I learned that the Monday walkers in Heilbronn now also have their own list.

At least the Free Voters remain down-to-earth and only hope that the people of Heilbronn will grant them four mandates again - if there were a few more, of course we wouldn't mind!

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