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zekriocaon xAI installs eight converted jet engines to power Mississippi data center

I mean, they need to give an intuition of the magnitude. Tell me, what do you think when I say “a GPU consumes 1 kW of power”? What does that even mean to the regular Joe?

It is pretty easy to compare against homes because they consume on average 1 kWh of electricity (in the U.S.). It could be something else, but 99% of people have homes they live in, so this is something directly linked to their experiences. So it is not meaningless at all.

zekriocaon AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market

They probably meant that AI = fossil fuels, because gas is the energy source from where majority of electricity for AI datacenters will (proportionally) come from.

zekriocaon DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

This isn’t a law.

zekriocaon DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

The person simplified the paper with such a misunderstanding that I thought 10x before rebutting. They clearly didn’t read anything of the paper. Thanks for the clarification.

zekriocaon DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

Some people don’t want to recognize the important work that went into this.

zekriocaon One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment

https://archive.is/5aegH

zekriocaon The Dataflow Model Revisited

You paper "A catalog of stream processing optimizations" is great! It seems like a classic in stream processing for me :)

Generally I agree with this comment. Very few niche applications require stream processing and all struggle that had been into research to enable some of the ACID properties for stream processing.

While at it, would you know how kdb+ (mostly used in finance) work? It -- together with q -- seems to achieve very low latency for real time systems.

zekriocaon Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

That, and even better when coupled with good public transportation.

zekriocaon Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

[1] Linux 7.2 Reverts DRM Scheduler Change After Serious GPU Regressions: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-72-reverts-drm-sc...

zekriocaon Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom

https://archive.is/VZbsS

zekriocaon EPA Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars

http://archive.today/qjpmp

zekriocaon French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Let it burn then?

zekriocaon Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

They also run Chinese models for their china-based iPhones. So they would benefit from models being open.

zekriocaon Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

And what would you say, Sherlock?

zekriocaon Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

But what does that mean for the US competitive leap in AI when compared to China? Is it an admission by these companies that AI models are here to stay and the US will not “win” by being the only country with the best of models? Genuinely asking, not sure about the answer.

zekriocaon Big tech is now targeting Native American land for data centers

They usually care about industry that can bring local jobs with it, which explains why some of them support coal power plants.

zekriocaon Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

Stupidest comment ever.

zekriocaon Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

I like the process tree view, but it stops the dynamic updates and reordering of process list.

zekriocaon Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents

It is so sweet that you believe in all these.

zekriocaon macOS Container Machines

"LXC" for macOS?

zekriocaon The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America

It seems some AI propaganda has already worked on you.