Xaphanos
@Xaphanos@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lidl has succeded in turning magas into mosquito repellent 1 day ago:
No self-respecting bug would touch a MAGA.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 2 days ago:
Further, he killed all trust in Intel. Now, no one will believe that there are no government back doors into everything they make.
- Comment on AI to cut paperwork to free up doctors’ time for patients 1 week ago:
This makes me think of the movie “Brazil”.
- Comment on White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History' 2 weeks ago:
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
- Comment on Unexpectedly Beautiful Women’s Fashion in the Soviet Union from the 1960s and 1970s [no, this is not an argument that tankies are right] 3 weeks ago:
Fashion photography however was (mostly) on par with amateurs.
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 3 weeks ago:
I know some really damn delusional programmers.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 4 weeks ago:
My data center has 35MW of generators onsite. No modern DC is designed nor built without backup generators to allow continuous operation during any utility power outages.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure you’re right. How pre-post-truth of me.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 4 weeks ago:
Who is responsible? The SW creator? The trainer? The source of the training data? The hosting data center?
What are the penalties? Who enforces this? Who investigates?
- Comment on Bubble Trouble 5 weeks ago:
My company is in AI. One of our customers pays for systems capable of the hard computational work to design the drugs to treat Parkinson’s. This is the only newly possible with the newest technology.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 5 weeks ago:
Does that include systems used for “correlation science”? Things like “people that are left-handed and eat sardines are more likely to develop eyebrow cancer”. Also genetic correlations for odd things like musical talent?
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 5 weeks ago:
But it is quid pro quo.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 5 weeks ago:
Is there a specific name? Or just “non-LLM ML systems”?
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 5 weeks ago:
What would you call systems that are used for discovery of new drugs or treatments? For example, companies using “AI” for Parkinson’s research.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 month ago:
And folks with ARFID.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 month ago:
So don’t pitch it to a major media company. YouTube stars are born every day.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 month ago:
Your first 3 all seem to be on target to me.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 2 months ago:
After a few months, I’d get laid off and have to look for other data center work.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 2 months ago:
Well, I work at an AI hyperscaler. I can tell you how much my facility uses, and how much each rack uses, but don’t have any way to determine what the customer is doing on that server. Or even which servers a given customer is using. Is it being used heavily for queries? How many? Of what kind? We don’t know. Only what the rack/row/pod/hall is consuming.
Also, does the network gear overhead count? How do you apportion that?
We have no visibility into the customer workload. Some of our customers use our systems for scientific research. Drugs, etc. How do you tally that?
I’m not saying that it is impossible, just that if the customer won’t pay for that report, we’re not going to spend money to build the systems to produce it.
Do I agree? No. But I’m just a grunt.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 2 months ago:
A problem is that the information is not in the hands of the company selling the AI. The actual hardware is often owned by service providers and independent data centers.
- Comment on Republican National Convention sued for sending unhinged text messages soliciting donations to Donald Trump’s campaign and continuing to text even after trying to unsubscribe. 2 months ago:
I received a bunch of these texts
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 months ago:
A major bottleneck is power capacity. Is is very difficult to find 50Mwatts+ (sometime hundreds) of capacity available at any site. It has to be built out. That involves a lot of red tape, government contracts, large transformers, contractors, etc. the current backlog on new transformers at that scale is years. Even Google and Microsoft can’t build, so they come to my company for infrastructure - as we already have 400MW in use and triple that already on contract. Further, Nvidia only makes so many chips a month. You can’t install them faster than they make them.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 months ago:
US
- Comment on You have been in a prison of bone for your entire life 2 months ago:
I really like that.
- Comment on I probably interact with people who are at the pinnacle of their chosen skill but I'd never know because that skill isn't something that generates fame. 2 months ago:
My neighbor was the head judge for skiing at the Olympics. The most important person in skiing in the world.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 months ago:
NVL72 will be enormously impactful on high end performance.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 3 months ago:
Oh yeah.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 3 months ago:
My wife’s g-grandmother was Mary. Her daughters were Mary Margaret, Mary Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, and Mary Alice. Newfies.
- Comment on [Opinion] Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness 3 months ago:
It already works like this. Audits perform this function. Failing a mandatory audit generally goes very poorly for financial companies. The unintended result is falsified audits - something my former company did (still does?) every year. The banks and the Fed never found out.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Good pens and good paper.