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- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
Anything that’s per-commit is part of the “build” in my opinion.
But if you’re running a language server and have stuff like format-on-save enabled, it’s going to use a lot more power as you’re coding.
But like you said, text editing is a small part of the workflow, and looking up docs and browsing code should barely require any CPU, a phone can do it with fractions of a Watt, and a PC should be underclocking when the CPU is underused.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
It sounds like it does save you a lot of time then. I haven’t had the same experience, but I did all my learning to program before LLMs.
Personally I think the amount of power saved here is negligible, but it would actually be an interesting study to see just how much it is.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
I didn’t even say which direction it was misleading, it’s just not really a valid comparison to compare a single invocation of an LLM with a continuous task.
You’re comparing Volume of Water with Flow Rate. Or if this was power, you’d be comparing Energy (Joules or kWh) with Power (Watts)
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
Just writing code uses almost no energy. Your PC should be clocking down when you’re not doing anything. 1GHz is plenty for text editing.
Does ChatGPT reduce the number of times you hit build? Because that’s where all the electricity goes.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
Asking ChatGPT a question doesn’t take 1 hour like most of these… this is a very misleading graph
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 2 weeks ago:
You’re just saying, human-written software can have bugs.
That’s pretty much exactly the point they’re making. Humans create the training data. Humans aren’t perfect, and therefore the AI training data cannot be perfect. The AI will always make mistakes and have biases as long as it’s being trained on human data.
- Comment on NO TO AI 2 weeks ago:
It’s certainly lossy
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably graded by a computer, and a) or d) is a fake answer, since the automated system doesn’t support multiple right answers.
I’m going to go with 25% chance if picking random, and a 50% chance if picking between a) and d).
If it’s graded by a human, the correct answer is f) + u) - Comment on Living the dream 4 weeks ago:
Vengeance.js is the latest JavaScript framework, and this candidate has 3 years experience! (Vengeance.js was released 6 month ago) /s
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 4 weeks ago:
My opinion is that including trans people in this sort of study actually reduces the bias, because they’re the only people who will have experienced the social impacts of presenting both male and female at different times. All cis-gendered people will be inherently biased towards their own limited experience.
- Comment on Somebodys got a case of the Easter Mondays 5 weeks ago:
Most of those seem like nonlinear relationships, so it still doesn’t make any sense still. The undergrowth would only start becoming an issue when the height gets taller than the egg diameter.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
Based on some rough calculations… no. A precision of 0.0000000000001 ohms is 1000x less than the resistance of 1um of copper with a diameter of 1cm (A piece of wire 10,000x wider than it is long).
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
This is exactly how high precision resistors are calibrated. A laser is usually used to notch out bits of the resistor to tune it after it’s made.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
You could get exactly 6.1854838709677 for an instantaneous moment by heating up a 6ohm resistor.
- Comment on they did the math 🦀 2 months ago:
Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.
- Comment on they did the math 🦀 2 months ago:
It also equates 1 bit to 1 logic gate, which I’m not sure it’s possible to create memory using that few gates unless it’s read-only. All memory cell circuits I know of require at least 2 logic gates.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 months ago:
Do you by chance have a PhD in food science?
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 months ago:
They were paid basically minimum wage, so they weren’t treated the best. They were doing important work, and I personally have a lot of respect for it, but it was (and still is) an uphill battle against sexism.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 months ago:
I’m not sure of the timeframe of this, but it could be referring to the time when calculations were done by women by hand: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 months ago:
When I think of digital signal processing I think of things like audio and Fourier transforms. In my experience there’s quite a bit to graphics programming that’s different from that. A lot of shader code is linear algebra / matrix math, and physics equations for light. There’s also a lot of thinking about memory layouts and how to reuse calculations as much as possible.
I say this as someone who does a lot of graphics programming in my job but failed “Feedback Control Systems” the first time through.
- Comment on For your consideration 2 months ago:
The bananas on the left are just closer to the camera. Everyone knows bananas are all the same size.
- Comment on Equations can't hurt your feelings 2 months ago:
Finally, I’m almost done!
Part 17 is as much work as part 1-16
Fuuuuu - Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 2 months ago:
People need to work to live, which requires looking at job postings. Shocking, I know
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 2 months ago:
Well the study we’re commenting under calls out that press releases and job postings are also becoming increasingly LLM-written. You can’t avoid those simply by touching grass.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 3 months ago:
This might work on the scale of a building to even out its own power usage throughout a day, but to make a difference on a city grid scale, you need an insane amount of height and/or weight.
Check out Pumped Water Energy Storage. It’s the same concept but uses water as the weight. Doing the math on the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant active calacity, it stores over 100 billion pounds of water.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 3 months ago:
I’m sure the AI datacenters would have a few GW to spare if we put the LLMs on pause.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 3 months ago:
Is that using numbers for carbon capture from the atmosphere? Carbon capture directly on the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant would probably be an order of magnitude more efficient. Obviously you can’t sustain everything by only using fuel combustion, but you could probably reduce to total emissions per kWh quite a bit without even looking at renewables.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 3 months ago:
Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?
- Comment on Thank you for your service 4 months ago:
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Guys, stop responding to this thread with Reply-all!
- Comment on Same 4 months ago:
With how much Factorio I’ve played, I’m down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I’m nowhere close to done.