ImplyingImplications
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- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 31 minutes ago:
My understanding of quantum computers is that they’re great a brute forcing stuff, but machine learning is just a lot of calculations, not brute forcing.
If you want to know the square root of 25, you don’t need to brute force it. There’s a direct way to calculate the answer and traditional computers can do it just fine. It’s still going to take a long time if you need to calculate the square root of a billion numbers.
That’s basically machine learning. The individual calculations aren’t difficult, there’s just a lot to calculate. However, if you have 2 computers doing the calculations, it’ll take half the time. It’ll take even less time if you fill a data center with a cluster of 100,000 GPUs.
- Comment on Day 358 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 23 hours ago:
Making great progress! Bill is such a great character. He’s turned his town into a fortress occupied only by him. Sounds great until you realize he’s been alone for years. It’s less of a fortress and more of a prison and, with the way he talks to himself, you get the sense that the isolation is starting to wear on him. Even then, when given the opportunity to leave, he doesn’t. He’s going to die alone in that place because he sees trusting others as a weakness. Something he tries to impress onto Joel. But does Joel want to be like Bill? Does he want to be like Tess? Such a great chapter!
- Comment on Day 357 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
I’d say the story of part 2 explores a different theme. The writing and acting are still top notch, it’s just not a theme people wanted to explore. The gameplay and scenery are arguably improved so I’d still recommend it.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 day ago:
It’s mostly the training/machine learning that is power hungry.
AI is essentially a giant equation that is generated via machine learning. You give it a prompt with an expected answer, it gets run through the equation, and you get an output. That output gets an error score based on how far it is from the expected answer. The variables of the equation are then modified so that the prompt will lead to a better output (one with a lower error).
The issue is that current AI models have billions of variables and will be trained on billions of prompts. Each variable will be tuned based on each prompt. That’s billions to the power of billions of calculations. It takes a while. AI researchers are of course looking for ways to speed up this process, but so far it’s mostly come down to dividing up these billions of calculations over millions of computers. Powering millions of computers is where the energy costs come from.
Unless AI models can be trained in a way that doesn’t require running a billion squared calculations, they’re only going to get more power hungry.
- Comment on Day 357 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
I loved this game so much! You’re in for a treat! Last of Us certainly has a way of making the apocalypse look gorgeous. All those reclaimed by nature cityscapes are amazing.
If you like the scenery and gameplay of this one then you’ll enjoy it in the second game too. Maybe lower your story writing expectations a bit though…
- Comment on what 1 day ago:
Weird. That works all the time on Pawn Stars
- Comment on Women come, women go 2 days ago:
Pinecone? I don’t get it…
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 3 days ago:
I can’t find it on GOG’s but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in most EULAs. I’ve seen emails saying “confidential, if you are not the intended recipient of this email you must delete it.” There’s no way to enforce that. Ubisoft isn’t coming to your house to review the contents of your drives. I’m guessing it’s to stop some loophole like “you said I can’t resell your game so instead I sold my hard drive (that has the game installed on it)”.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 3 days ago:
I know for sure Korean does this, though technically their writing system is a syllabary. Symbols representing vowel and consonants are arranged into blocks that represent a syllable.
For example ㅈㅅ is short for 죄송합니다 meaning “I’m sorry”. Talk about efficient shorthand! The first consonants of each syllable block are used to makeup the shorthand, the ending 합니다 is a polite conjugation which is ignored in shorthand. You can look up “korean texting slang” for more. It’s apparently used a lot. The shorthand some might already be familiar with is ㅋㅋ which is “lol”.
- Comment on Anything for you, babe... 3 days ago:
How’d you get it to do this?
- Comment on Anything for you, babe... 3 days ago:
I just wanted to see if you’d actually go out of your way to fake a gimp screenshot. The guy has 17 fingers and 3 arms and the baby has 14 toes and one hand is meshing into the arm of the man. It’s AI. The screenshot also doesn’t have a layer for most things that would have layers like the text that says “Yoink” and for some reason the baby is half in one layer and half another. The checkered pattern in the layer view is messed up. Why would you go to such lengths to lie? Just say it’s AI. It’s obvious.
- Comment on Anything for you, babe... 3 days ago:
Post your gimp screenshot
- Comment on Lost dog 5 days ago:
Domestication of the first canine (30,000 BCE, colourized)
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 1 week ago:
Stnoe
- Comment on conspiracy 1 week ago:
This is like when people say they must add stuff to coffee to make it addicting. Yeah, caffeine.
- Comment on It's a special room where work happens I swear! 1 week ago:
My young nephew has entered a phase where he says “I like x” where x is the last thing you said to him. I told him I was going to work and he said “I like going to work”. No, little buddy. You don’t.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 1 week ago:
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 1 week ago:
Oh it’s out?
PlayStation 5 exclusive
Ah. Thanks Sony.
- Comment on No! 1 week ago:
Is that a Boarder Collie?
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
Ah 2024, great year!
- Comment on Casual wear 2 weeks ago:
This is a fetish thing isn’t it?
- Comment on Sweatshop 2 weeks ago:
These are the vests we have: TechNiche CoolPax. They’re okay. I find the ice packs melt quickly and freeze slowly but they’re good for temporary relief. My company initially bought these to be worn under hot PPE like hazmat suits, but even just having a bunch of ice packs in a freezer you can take out on the floor to hold onto could work.
- Comment on Sweatshop 2 weeks ago:
You’re not alone! I worked 12 hours in 37°C (99°F), 47% humidity yesterday. However, we get essentially unlimited breaks in an air conditioned break room, have cooling vests filled with ice packs we can wear on the floor, and are supplied with sports drinks and feeezies. Your work can’t really make the world less hot, but they can work with you to avoid development of heat related illnesses!
- Comment on Canadians are just too polite 2 weeks ago:
A Canadian scored a hat trick in the Cup final. He just plays for Florida.
- Comment on RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it' 3 weeks ago:
Have you heard of Cookie Clicker? It’s an idler game where you click a cookie to get points. You can spend those points on upgrades like automated clicking and more points per click. The goal is to get like a billion points or something but with the upgrades you’re eventually getting millions of points a second without even clicking. Now imagine saying “I want to hit a billion points without buying a single upgrade. I’m literally just going to click the cookie a billion times.” That’s what this guy did, but with Old School Runescape.
There’s been a trend of extreme OSRS players trying to one up each other in dedicating years of their life to doing a repetitive task for 18 hours a day, every day.
- Comment on Apparently his crew is big 3 weeks ago:
If you want to reach those kids in the streets, you got to do a rap to a hip hop beat!
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 3 weeks ago:
This is a commonly repeated myth but it isn’t true. Nobody gets a tax write off in point-of-sale fundraising. Charities ask stores to do it because it’s one of the most efficient and effective ways for a charity to raise money. Chairty events are costly, and asking people on the street gets a lot of rejection. Stores agree to do it because they get to run ads saying they helped raise millions for charity and the charity will usually shout them out as well.
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that “China” is special because they’re a founding member of the UN and have special powers due to that. After the civil war, neither Taiwan or China wanted to lose that power, so neither side wanted to be recognized as anything other than “China”. I’ve heard that the younger generation in Taiwan are more open to being recognized as Taiwan but China has kind of made that impossible now by threatening any country that doesn’t respect the “one China” policy.
- Comment on I'd like to help 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If I wanted to have a maximally downvoted post, how would I go about accomplishing that? 4 weeks ago:
Post about how Windows isn’t that bad in any Linux community.
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