Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Crypto is basically cash for online transactions. Pretty niche, but cool and definitely in demand for some situations.
Just how in the real world you’re shit outta luck if you lose your wallet. Or if you give someone money, but they laugh you in the face you can either cut your losses or try your luck in a fist fight. It’s the same with crypto.
With banks you have a separate authority that can handle all these cases, which is desirable in 99% of all transactions.
Unfortunately it’s volatile af, and the most popular crypto currency (Bitcoin)has untenable transaction costs and transaction limitations (10 transactions per second, globally - what a stupid design decision)
Make both hands into a fist and hold them out in front of you so that the knuckles are visible. Now start on a pinky and count the knuckles and valleys between them. Knuckles are 31 days, valleys are 30 (and February). When you switch between hands it doesn’t count as a valley.
Left Pinky knucke: January, 31 days
Left Pinky/ring finger valley: February
Left Ring finger knuckle: march, 31
Left Ring/middle: April, 30
Left Middle: may, 31
Left Middle/index: June, 30
Left Index: July, 31
Right Index: August, 31
Right Index/middle: September, 30
Right middle: Oktober, 31
Right middle/ring: November, 30
Right ring finger knuckle: December, 31
One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.
Fossil fuel-burning plants, whether that’s natural gas, coal, or oil, produce even less. There’s no way to ramp up nuclear capacity in the time it will take to supply these millions of chips, so much, if not all, of that extra power demand is going to come from carbon-emitting sources.
If you ignore the two fastest growing methods of power generation, which coincidentally are also carbon free, cheap and scalable, the future does indeed look bleak. But solar and wind do exist…
The rest is purely a policy rant. Yes, if productivity increases we need some way of distributing the gains from said productivity increase fairly across the population. But jumping to the conclusion that, since this is a challenge to be solved, the increase in productivity is bad, is just stupid.
50/50 chance between normal keyboard and no arm muscles whatsoever and normal arm muscles and the thickest, full metal mechanical keyboard you’ve ever seen.
There are basically no unsafe ways to get off of a unicycle. You can fall in any direction and just end up standing next to your unicycle. Compare that to a bicycle “over the handle bars”-accident.
alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...
Which is awesome, because every number up halves the size. This, combined with the standard way that paper weights are given (e g. 80g/m2) allows you to easily calculate how much a piece of paper weights: 1 A4 80g/m2 weighs 5g (1/2^4 * 80g)
Where in the process does that seed play a role and what do you even mean with numerical noise?
Edit: I feel like I should add that I am very interested in learning more. If you can provide me with any sources to show that GPTs are inherently random I am happy to eat my own hat.
Some interferences even expose a way to set the “temperature” - higher values of that mean more randomized (feels creative) output, lower values mean less randomness. A temperature of 0 will make the model deterministic.
Unfortunately the API docs are incomplete (insert obi wan meme here). The seed value is both optional and irrelevant when setting the temperature to 0. I just tested it.
A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
That is true for most current “self driving” systems, because they are all just glorified assist features. Tesla is misleading its customers massively with their advertisement, but on paper it’s very clear that the car will only assist in safe conditions, the driver needs to be able to react immediately at all times and therefore is also liable.
However, Mercedes (I think it was them) have started to roll out a feather where they will actually take responsibility for any accidents that happen due to this system. For now it’s restricted to nice weather and a few select roads, but the progress is there!
#Nicht IN, sondern ZWISCHEN den Städten/Orten müssen Fahrradstrecken her
Ersthaft Wo ist es gefährlicher im Straßenverkehr Fahrrad zu fahren? Innerorts oder Überland?
Wer innerorts mit dem Rad fahren will, kann das jederzeit überall tun, muss sich halt an die Verkehrsregeln halten und bisserl mitdenken, dann klappt’s auch mit den Autos (mal aus eigener Erfahrung). Aber zwischen den Städten/Ortschaften, bei erlaubten 100 Sachen? Das ist schon ne andere Nummer. Dazu dann für Fahrräder gesperrte Straßen. Oft findet man den Weg gar nicht, weil die Schilder für Autos sind und man dann irgendwo strandet, wo Fahrräder nicht erlaubt sind.
Und selbst ausgeschilderte Rad(fern)wege (oder wie die heißen) enden oft genug auf irgendwelchen Feldwegen. Mein härtestes Erlebnis war mal stumpf an der Leitplanke von ner Autobahn. Da haste irgendwann keinen Bock mehr.
Heise Kommentar, den ich genau so unterschreiben kann. Man fühlt sich als Radfahrer nach Strich und Faden verarscht vor, wenn man sich penibel an alle Verkehrsregeln halten will. Besonders den Mangel an schildern für Radfahrer kritisiere ich heftig.
Das mit der Leitplanke hatte ich in ähnlicher Art auch schon Mal. Das macht man ein paar Mal mit, aber irgendwann geht man halt dazu über “benutzungspflichtige” Radwegeschilder eher als Empfehlung zu sehen. Das kann nicht das Ziel sein, deshalb brauchen wir besser durchdachte Rad Infrastruktur.
Anderes Beispiel: auf meinem Arbeitsweg führt der Radweg parallel zu einer großen Straße entlang. Diese Straße hat einen Kreisverkehr für eine kleine Nebenstraße, die dazu stößt. T Kreuzung war anscheinend zu gefährlich (Autos halt…).
Der Fahrradweg muss also auch um den Kreisel rum - Und bekommt zwei 90°Kurven, sowie ein “Vorfahrt gewähren” Schild rein gedonnert. Am Arsch! Hier bekommt die klitzekleine Nebenstraße Vorrang über der Hauptverkehrsader! Am nervigsten ist’s, wenn ein überlanges Auto in den Kreisverkehr fahren will und dabei den kompletten Übergang blockiert.
Klar, ist jetzt nichts weltbewegendes, aber die kleinen Sticheleien können einem richtig das Radfahren versauen. Stellt euch vor auf jeder Straße gäbe es so Geschwindigkeitshubbel (speed bumps), für jede scheiß kleine Nebenstraße die dazu stößt. So fühlt es sich an auf dem Radweg in der Stadt zufahren.
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
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alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...
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A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
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