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- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 days ago:
25 years ago an 8P server had only 8 cores (even if you bought Alpha 21364s) And states needed whole buildings to host their servers. Scaling that down to a single rack is the progress that occurred.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 days ago:
Constraint solvers for things such as Medicaid eligibility; OCR tagging for scanned documents; Anti-AI detection for uploaded images; but yes most state services are data entry and batch processing with web front ends.
Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores as Amdahl’s law showed back in 1967.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 days ago:
No. A state government needs to support 1/10th of its population actively using its services. Say that state has 10M people; you will want 10k cores for all state services. an 8P server has about 1536 cores and you will need about 7 of them. So it still takes a whole rack even with the COBOL programs and applications written in C and Assembly.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 days ago:
Ok; what application (which benefits society) requires data center level compute beyond physics simulations (which are better suited for quantum computers).
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 days ago:
When entire state governments can fit in a single Rack, why bother?
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 1 week ago:
Yeah, some people just love throwing their money away into a fire pit; never understood why but nonetheless; the horrors persist and so do I.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 1 week ago:
Here is a market condition for Nintendo: no more buying of any of their products or giving them money for any of their services.
Boycotting until they no longer exist
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
Who explicitly points out that short duration copyright is probably what is in society’s best interest and in the best interest for those who create works. (By short, he means 5 years of copyright protection)
Open source software doesn’t benefit from longer term protections than that.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
Read RMS’s thoughts on copyright.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
So have Congress repeal copyright law and not just for AI companies.
Otherwise I would just fund an AI company that is just secretly a public library