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- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 3 hours ago:
Ooo
- Comment on A simpler time 6 hours ago:
You betta axe sumbody
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 6 hours ago:
A lot of people don’t realize that votes are public 🤓
- Comment on Microsoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures 6 hours ago:
Come on in, the water is fine.
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 7 hours ago:
For readers in the future, NPR was a show from back when we had public radio…
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 7 hours ago:
Look at meshtastic, it’s only text messages but the underlying system could be iterated on.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 9 hours ago:
And, if you’re new it’s also an escape room.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 9 hours ago:
How many years of Windows experience do you have?
If you had that many years of experience on Linux then the shell commands and arguments wouldn’t be obscure.
Now’s the best time to learn, there’s a lot of other beginners now so the Linux communities are full of people learning at the same time as you would be.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 9 hours ago:
pacman exists specifically to solve dependency issues and prevent that exact scenario
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 15 hours ago:
The “ai bad” brainrot has everyone thinking that any algorithm is AI and all AI is ChatGPT.
- Comment on Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box. 16 hours ago:
I was just guessing (it’s how I’d do it) 🥳
- Comment on Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused 16 hours ago:
TLDR
- Comment on Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box. 16 hours ago:
Maybe each server shows up as a library. Like “Server 1 - Movies”
Kind of annoying but less so than swapping servers and search should work
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 16 hours ago:
“AI”
Sharpening, Denoising and upscaling barely count as machine learning. They don’t require AI neural networks.
- Comment on Data centers are drying up the Port of Marseille: ‘They consume enormous amounts of electricity’ 16 hours ago:
Not a thing. From the article:
In some places, the main criticism that residents have about data centers has to do with the amount of water they consume to cool servers. This isn’t the case in Marseille, however, which is well-supplied with this resource. The authorities have even given Digital Realty access to water from the former underground drainage channels of the Gardanne coal mines, located north of Marseille. The water flows into the port, so the firm can use it to cool its systems.
- Comment on Data centers are drying up the Port of Marseille: ‘They consume enormous amounts of electricity’ 16 hours ago:
It’s a misleading headline at best, clickbaiting the “ai bad” crowd.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 1 day ago:
It is definitely overhyped in the fields of language models and image/video generation. The idea that we’re going to have language models replacing people is completely hype. Those tools have some uses, but they’re not remotely close to the things that are being promised by the AI companies.
Hardly anyone pays attentions to the massive improvements being made in robotics or things like protein folding.
Sure, they’re expensive, but not prohibitively so and they’ll only get cheaper and better as investments are made. Investments like South Korea is doing.
Compare the early Boston Dynamics videos of their Big Dog robot using human programmed feedback control systems vs this robot trained using reinforcement learning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44_zbEwz_w
Programming a feedback control system is expensive and requires experts in multiple fields. Training models is a, relatively, simple process so the cost for robotics startups will be much lower. Motors, accelerometers, and image sensors and a strong graphics card is all you need. This process will be further sped up by foundational World Models which allows the training of a control system without any physical components as they’re trained in simulation.
LLMs are way overhyped, certainly, but that’s only a tiny portion of the things that neural networks are being used for.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 1 day ago:
This could all be done with sensors and rules and, in fact, was. Unless we’re being super loose with what “machine learning” means here. We’ve been teaching robots to semi-autonomously navigate courses and return for ages.
They use sensor fusion, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), path planning, reinforcement learning, computer vision, clustering and classification, and data analysis and feedback loops. All machine learning.
Neural networks are more efficient at computer vision than the old human-programmed methods and can be run on low performance hardware. Path planning and mapping could also be neural network based.
That’s so gross to me personally that I don’t want to think about it. Both from a security as well as environmental perspective. I also disagree that it’s close, at least for how I think you’re using “close” here.
Both BYD and Tesla have announced humanoid robots for around $10k starting next year.
- Comment on The AI vibe shift is upon us 1 day ago:
It was inevitable that the bubble built on people being hyped and expecting sentient computers would burst.
AI has applications, but the ridiculous promises of these tech companies haven’t been tethered to reality for quite some time.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 1 day ago:
It would generate as much or as little power as we design it to. As little as a single solar panel or a multi-gigawatt array.
Even in operation it wouldn’t overproduce electricity. We have people, grid managers, who’s entire job is to coordinate all of the generation sources on the grid so that they adjust their output in order to match demand and maintain grid stability.
Our generation capacity is always higher than normal demand, but all generation methods have the ability to control their output.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 1 day ago:
AI and machine learning are often used interchangeably.
Neural networks, like the Transformer, are one of the techniques of machine learning.
Though some people only mean ChatGPT and DALL-E when they say AI, even though those are only one application of neural networks.
I usually just use AI and Machine Learning interchangeably. Unless you’re in a group of experts nobody really understands the distinction.
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 1 day ago:
Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households. A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.
In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI. Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning, so much so that ML textbooks commonly use them as teaching tools.
We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.
It’s not unreasonable for countries to be investing in new technologies and AI is one of the more promising.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 1 day ago:
They’re talking about instability in the electrical grid. If we could just snap our fingers and have instant fusion power tomorrow we still couldn’t actually use it because the demand of electricity wouldn’t keep up with the supply.
I’m not sure I understand. Our problem isn’t that we have too much electricity, it’s that the demand for electricity exceeds the production from renewable sources and forces us to rely on burning fossil fuels.
If we replaced all of the coal and gas generation with fusion it would be an immediate improvement. The energy output of controlled fusion can be adjusted in real-time to match the grid needs, exactly like fossil fuels generation.
One of the points of space based solar was that you don’t need batteries.
Terrestrial solar needs energy storage technology because the sun doesn’t shine at night. That’s not true for space based solar, it is always in the sun so the power output is reliable and controllable.
- Comment on Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome 1 day ago:
That’s not how non-profit profits work. 100% of the surplus might be invested in green causes but that’s after operating costs, salaries and a plethora of minor expense posts are handled using their profit/income.
It is a fact that the company is registered as a non-profit.
Being a non-profit means that the owners of the company can collect a salary but cannot collect profits(income in excess of operating expenses). The owners of the company cannot collect profit, it is a non-profit company.
All of the income, in excess of expenses (aka profit) is given to charitable causes. If it were a for-profit company, the all of the income in excess of expenses (aka profit) would be divided amongst the owners and shareholders.
Every non-profit company in every western country has operating expenses including salaries. Unless you’re trying to say that non-profits don’t exist, then this argument is also nonsense.
If legitimizing polluting technology by saying we’re doing such a great job at combating pollution isn’t green washing, perhaps I’ve misunderstood the term?
A private jet is polluting technology because it directly generates tons of carbon in order to operate. It is used in place of other transportation methods which would generate less carbon
How is AI polluting technology?
Just declaring it is polluting doesn’t make it true. A computer takes in electricity and emits heat and data.
This company generates twice as much renewable energy as they consume. They also plant trees (over 200 million) which capture carbon, reduce aridification and increase rainfall. The net result is that this non-profit adds, carbon free, electricity to the grid, increases carbon capture and storage and adds water to the hydrological cycle.
Sometimes the divide between worldviews is simply too big to try to bridge.
That’s often the case when you consume misinformation.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 2 days ago:
If tax payers are going to be investing into these businesses and they’re avoiding taxes taking a share of the company is better than nothing.
I mean, it’s socialism, but don’t tell their voters
- Comment on Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law 2 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome 2 days ago:
You’re focusing on their use of AI, and that doesn’t make sense. AI is a technology that exists and search engines and RAG is one of the better ways to use it. They are a search engine, why would they not use it?
They’ve planted over 200 million trees, produce twice as much energy than they consume and have given over €90 million to green causes. They’re a non-profit company that gives 100% of their profits towards green initiatives, planting trees and investing in solar. It’s hardly greenwashing.
What does the power usage of their search engine services matter if they’re producing more energy than they consume? Your complaint just doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome 2 days ago:
They could offer AI served off of a single RaspberryPi3 powered by a 2 gigawatt solar installation and the anti-AI crowd would find some other angle to attack it. The goal is to get people to think ‘AI Bad’, not any of the other strawmen that they stand up.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 2 days ago:
Trivial amounts compared to the solar energy hitting the entire surface of half the Earth.
The problem isn’t incoming energy, it’s outgoing energy. Greenhouse gases reduce the amount of energy radiated back into space and that’s what increases the mean global temperature.
Adding a few hundred square miles of surface area wouldn’t change much.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 2 days ago:
That’s a real genius plan.