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When I started training models in 2021 I joked to my wife that I had found something more computationally expensive than crypto mining. Whenever I was asked about AI and the risk to humanity (2023), I would point out that there were very real physical limits to what was going on. AI training is eye-bleedinglying…
Indigenous food systems are systems of production, distribution, and consumption of foods based on Traditional Knowledge and practices of Indigenous Peoples. These systems are characterized by their diversity, sustainability, and resilience, which makes them preferable to conventional industrial food systems. In a webinar organized by the Agroecology Fund (AEF) in November 2023, representatives of Indigenous Peoples and non-governmental organizations…
“Nice sanctions you’ve got there, be a shame if some one routed around them.” As a friend pointed out, black market Nvida chips are probably easier to get than black market pseudo. China is still finding ways to skirt US export controls on Nvidia chips, Reuters reported. A Reuters review of publicly available tender documents showed…
Self-checkout is one of those consensual hallucinations that you see in tech a lot. People see a leader implement it and then follow like sheep… “no one gets fired for buying IBM”. In the US these machines can lead to really dire legal trouble if you get pinged for theft. “It hasn’t delivered anything that…
I’m kinda excited by this… BeOS was my lusted-after OS in college. I have been watching Haiku development for years. Their progress has been super impressive. For more details: https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/haiku-os-the-open-source-beos-you-can-daily-drive-in-2024/
I LOOOOOOVE the cultural weirdness of this. It’s an unintended consequence of GenAI systems when they bump into legal systems. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/15/24038880/psa-wear-fake-fingers-to-make-real-photos-look-ai-generated
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works rolled out the X-59 on Jan. 12, 2024, a unique experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. The ceremony marked a significant milestone in Lockheed Martin’s and NASA’s decades-long journey to solve one of the most persistent challenges of supersonic flight – the sonic boom.
Casey’s writing on solar power has transformed the way I look at at power related problems… when you realize we have an unlimited amount of power raining from the sky (that we can capture) then it changes the economics of problems. Cheap and power inefficient becomes the play of the day. The advent of cheap…
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