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X.com busts Chinese bot farm, incl accounts making claims about AI data centers(tomshardware.com)
11 points by throwaway2037 3d ago|1 comments
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by throwaway2037 4d ago
Real question here: As I understand, voice (sound) recognition technology mostly uses hidden Markov models, instead of LLM/AI. Do I misunderstand? I think this is how Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Shazam works. To be clear: I do not a
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by throwaway2037 4d ago
Cool, I found something here: https://www.lg.com/us/washers-dryers/lg-dlhc4002b-electric-d... LG claims: <<65% to 80% energy savings>> Even if only 50%, that is impressive! That sounds like a pretty g
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by throwaway2037 4d ago
The best estimate that I could find says that Win11 is at least 85% C and C++. Where did you get your 50% value? Or do I misunderstand your comment?
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by throwaway2037 4d ago
If Philips Lighting (Signify) or Osram wanted to build new, fully-automated lightbulb plants in Finland, would you also be against those plans? I have seen some YouTube videos that show how modern automated lightbulb plants operate. They
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by throwaway2037 4d ago
I think it is reasonable that the Finnish gov't cancelled the permit to build a Russian design reactor while NATO is deeply involved with the largest conflict with Russia since its founding in 1949. However, you raise some good points
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by throwaway2037 4d ago
This is an underrated point. PCIe, DRAM, and WiFi standards are similar. I watched a YouTube video about how PCIe 6.0 was developed, and, damn, the pipeline is long and very complex. Even test equipment has a separate/parallel pip
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
Did you read the article? Google has mentioned four distinct locations. That means at least four separate data centers, possibly more.
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
> we treat understanding new systems as something approachable And, computer scientists, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers don't? > from my boss's perspective, I'm the only one who's actu
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
> Unfortunately, the project was cancelled for moronic political reasons. From Wiki[1], I see: > In March 2022, in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Finnish Government declared that a rapid independence fro
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
This is a weird take. Before the rise of AI/LLMs, a lot of Finland's industry was paper products and high-end manuf'ing. Both of these require a lot of electricity. Did people say the same before? No (or much less).
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
What do you make of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain in Europe? In the last thirty years, lots of countries have gotten more democratic.
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
A quick search shows that there are plenty of alternatives. First, all nuclear power plants keep a excess supply of fuel on site, about 2-3 years. If Russia says tomorrow: "No more nuclear fuel exports to any 'unfriendly' E
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
> Sweden is struggling a lot with scaling its power production, to the point where it's a problem for existing and new industries Some light research shows that Sweden has annual electricity exports of about 30 TWh (equiv
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by throwaway2037 5d ago
It is worth noting that Finland is a member of Nord Pool (for electricity) which includes all Nordic nations. You cannot consider Finland alone in your supply and consumption expectations -- you need to include Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
> Google will build new data centres in Kajaani, Muhos and Vaala Wow, these are really far north. I checked on Google Maps: They are all about as far north as Oulu. It must get incredibly cold during the winter. Wiki tells m
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
> From the perspective of high level application development, I can't see a technical use case for a language other than Rust these days. What is wrong with C# and WinForms/WPF? It is an excellent platform to write e
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
> Microsoft managed to add arbitrary code execution to Notepad. You write as though this was an intentional feature. Not, it was a CVE. I had to Google about it. For anyone else who didn't know about this CVE: "Mic
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
> This requires the Windows 11 operating system to be more conservative about RAM usage, Rust can be a part of that. Most of Windows is written in C and C++. How would Rust help to reduce RAM usage?
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
> But I work in a space where C and C++ have been the only option for the last 30 years with absolutely no production-ready alternative. What "space"? My guess: HFT or HPC.
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
Can you give an example where an LLM produced low quality Python code? Python is such a simple language. This seems hard to imagine. Plus, the amount of open source Python that LLMs can be trained upon is enormous.
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
This sounds interesting. What make/model?
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by throwaway2037 6d ago
> Gas is surprisingly, weirdly cheap, often not even metered in apartments. Yikes. How is this possible? My guess: You are paying for it in a building fee.
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
Related: Today, I was in an elevator, and a middle-aged Japanese woman next to me was text chatting with ChatGPT on her mobile phone about a Chinese brand of spicy (mala/麻辣) instant noodles that she was holding in her hand. Chinese fo
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Framework cuts 32/64GB memory prices for 13 Pro, issues retroactive refunds(tomshardware.com)
7 points by throwaway2037 7d ago|1 comments
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by throwaway2037 7d ago
If you have a 13 Pro in flight, they are issuing refunds thanks to a recent batch of cheaper LPCAMM2 memory. Very impressive customer service!
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by throwaway2037 8d ago
Thinking deeper: If the Tesla car was only going 4mph, was it (1) slowing down because it detected the other car, or (2) effectively performed a rolling stop at the (previous) stop sign? Probably we will never know.
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by throwaway2037 8d ago
What bothers me most is the off-handedness of it all. They pop into the conversation like whack-a-mole a say "end copyright", yet offer no reasonable alternatives. Are we suddenly going to stop paying authors for their artistic
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by throwaway2037 8d ago
> I forget that most of them don't have the same information diet that I do It is interesting that you conflate "information diet" with "tech". The biggest info junkies I have ever met are: (1) medical
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by throwaway2037 8d ago
I confess that when I ride the subway, I like to peer at other people's phones to see what they are doing. The ones that interest me the most are other people talking with an LLM. I am always surprised by the wide variety of people w

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