But does your Claude subscription make you significantly more productive than my 30B qwen model running for pennies on a local 16gb gpu?

I doubt it.

And when 80gb gpus inevitably become affordable in 3-5 years time, even the large model slight edge is likely to be lost.

I just don't see how these hyperscalers will recoup their massive capital investments before consumer grade hardware catches up and their business model collapses.

Putting two and two together:

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What Detroit seems to be saying is that their market research shows that people who are dumb enough to be climate change deniers are the same people who are dumb enough to prefer driving ICE over EV, and are the same people who are dumb enough to happy when they are ripped off for massive profit margins when they buy a car.

And so there seems to be a short term business opportunity there.

I'm never going back to ICE from EV, but I guess I'm old enough and grumpy enough to enjoy watching fossil fools get ripped off.

It's a pity the current govt is killing so many foreign civilians in forever wars to try and keep gas prices down though.

A lot of bloggers are writing articles like this to purposely poison AI results these days, so I no longer am able to tell if the premise in stories like this is flawed by accident or design.

For example, try asking an AI who the best tech bloggers at eating hotdogs are.

Not sure what your rant has to do with my comment. You sure invented a lot of things I didn't say. But since you puked out so much that is provably false, I'll respond.

Funny that I keep running into MAGA fossil fuel investors who have a problem with renewables cause it cuts the value of their investment, and MAGA fossil fuel workers who have a problem with renewables because they are worried about the jobs they are skilled for disappearing. Funny how the head of MAGA keeps reversing Biden-era approvals of privately-funded renewable projects.

There are many strategies to handle Dunkelflauten. If you don't know what they are, then that makes you way more ignorant than the average Electrical Engineer. If you think that nuclear with it's inability to regulate power generation is a cost-effective strategy to deal with Dunkelflauten, then you are drifting from ignorance into outright stupidity.

Ah, the dick-swinging. This is slashdot - it's full of electrical engineers managing grid-scale installations. Your "large" residential setup is a rounding error. It's clear you have no idea what the grid-scale issues are for a renewable-only grid, because you keep banging on about the solved problems.

If you are happy with what Trump has done, then you must hate the US and it's people quite a lot. Just one more reason you are in here recommending strategies that would give americans the most expensive electricity imaginable.

How do you figure?

The Westinghouse AP600 puts out about 600 MW, and last I checked, 24 x 0.6GW is nowhere near 57 GWh.

There's the AP1000 which puts out about 1.1GW. 24 x 1.1GW is still less than half 57 GWh.

But if you want to talk about the AP1000 you have to ignore the elephant in the room that it is so expensive that trying to build it bankrupted Westinghouse back in 2017.

So what are you actually referring to?

Remember when VCs used to worry about concepts like escalation of commitment and protection of capital?

Those days seem to be long gone. I guess they must have some expectation that the govt will bail them out if they get too big to fail.

Just add it to the list of reasons why it sucks to be a US taxpayer right now.

Musk us particularly dumb, even for a nepo baby.

How dumb? This will give you some idea: https://www.planetearthandbeyo...

Came here to say this as well. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Welcome to late stage capitalism.

It's been a few years since I did a physics course, but to the best of my knowledge, the speed of light hasn't increased in the last 25 years.

LEO Iridium phone calls had too much latency to really feel natural for me. Unless these new sats are going to be even lower orbit, I doubt new fancy electronics are going to fix much.

Unless AI speech prediction is waaaay better than I think - to the point where it can finish both sides of the conversation early.

But if that's the case, what's the point of a call at all?.

... since their main starting point seems to be based on the idea that algorithms can't generate nonsensical sentences.

Ooh, look. AI slop defending AI.

Follow the link I posted for the methodology for calculation of the 17x. And if it does fall down under your 'scrutiny' please do post your 'logic' so we can all laugh at it.

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says. It's not just a bubble but an epically sized one. https://www.marketwatch.com/st...

CIS isn't a made up acronym, it's an prefix directly from original Latin.

But you sounded arrogant and sure of yourself when you spouted complete BS, and with the zeitgeist ranging from Trump to LLMs, you certainly nailed the modern era nicely.

The novelty us that it doesn't use a laser or laser speckle or any coherent light source at all.
Or even a high speed camera. Pretty big improvement on the old laser mike...

Grover's algorithm apparently scales by order sqrt(N).

So I guess for 4 kb RSA, maybe that becomes 1.4 million noisy qubits and 10 days.

Both those numbers seem crazy large to me given where current state of the art Quantum computing is.

Holding a quantum state for a week while Grover's algorithm runs all it's iterations seems very, very far away to me.