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I wish I were a cloud person.
by Ilnsk 3y ago
I wish I were a cloud person.
- Insanity 3y agoWhen I read that first sentence, I thought “what has cloud (software) to do with this”
- Moru 3y agoI once was told I was using the word clustering wrong (I was doing k-means, not computers).
- Nevermark 3y agoNot series, maybe a bit serious: Cloud computing energy use appears to be on an exponential trend driven by general trends (all things automated), with new forms of automation compounding competitive pressures (deep learning models quickly getting larger, more powerful, more useful, and more versatile in a way erasing many lines holding back past competition.) At some point, it seems inevitable that computing usage will be a first level climate driver, regardless of how green the energy is. Harnessing orbital solar, fission and fusion power, may solve the CO2 energy problem, without requiring us to steal the biosphere's energy needs, but will eventually create a massive waste heat energy problem. Unless we find someway to efficiently transfer mass amounts of heat energy off of Earth. Or we eventually limit computing on Earth, and export that to the Moon and beyond.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoI’m so ready to deploy to the EARTH-LUNAR-1 region and backup to JUP-EUROPA-1.
- budgi4 3y agoHow significant a climate change factor is waste heat energy across all sources currently?
- seattle_spring 3y agoThis thread likely reads very interestingly for those with the "Cloud to Butt" [1] chrome plugin [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus/apmlngnhgbnjpajelfkmabhkfapgnoai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
- this_steve_j 3y agoI didn’t install the plug-in, but made a mental substitution and reread the thread. Now I am chuckling like a grade schooler over some madlibs and dribbled coffee down my shirt.
- aeroman 3y agoMaybe I should describe my job differently...