Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
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hello,
I deleted threads and bluesky.
I'm a trans writer and hairstylist, searching for a more free Internet away from corporate ownership and control.
I like movies, books, music, videogames. all the things. idk, does anyone not like that stuff?
I do not like talking politics very much but being trans makes it kinda hard to avoid, so
*womp womp*
@jonny that alt text is pure perfection
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all these open issues and missed deadlines can wait because i need to watch the mother fucking movie about the mother fucking boxing kangaroo played by a guy in a kangaroo suit and this is the still they freeze on at the end of the actual tv ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaE8gZUzwNA
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Speaking of free speech, Facebook is deleting internal posts criticising it for adding UFC president Dana White to its board (you know, the guy caught on video hitting his wife). Facebook is also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones were deleted. https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/
@djspiewak yeah, with weather forecasting you definitely would want more accurate or farther-predicting models. (worse, trading firms, militaries and others probably want forecasts that they then keep secret, spurring the demand further as they make potentially the same forecast unbeknownst to each other)
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@spoltier What this actually makes me think about though is how many more problems are like this? Clearly there's nothing particularly special about real-time graphics rendering: it just happens to be a classical approach which is being significantly augmented by a learned one. Maybe weather forecasting is another good near-term exemplar?
@djspiewak interesting point. The potential rebound effects (more demand because it consumes less power) are probably limited by the fact that Nvidia is a monopoly (so they're not passing on those savings to the consumer), and because other factors are limiting the GPU load (like not many 8k displays yet, or it not being worth it to offer ultra high quality graphics if only the latest cards can use it).
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Framed another way, even though training DLSS probably had a massive carbon footprint, the inference will be applied across every PC gamer who turns it on, and stretched over the lifetime of the GPUs that almost certainly results in a very significant net carbon *savings* on the video game rendering that people were going to do anyway.
So in other words, this is an example of AI significantly reducing net energy usage.
@jdavidnet it does seem to be focused on the AI use case. I could see it as an inference / finetuning server for a small company or a developer playing around with open models. The announced / rumored price compares favorably to the Mac for that amount of RAM, but of course it is less versatile.
If / when the bubble pops then maybe there's potential for personal use, but not really at its current price.
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@ColinTheMathmo thanks for introducing me to the word calque.
When searching examples of calques, AI was kind enough to provide me with this gem.
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"Insidious" is a loanword from French, of Latin root, and "A few fries short of a Happy Meal" is a calque that mirrors "Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank / Ein paar Tassen fehlen im Schrank".
I quite liked Colin's contribution.
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"gendered responses to employees’ expressions of passion—one of the most commonly used criteria used in evaluating potential—both penalize women and advantage men in high-potential selection processes"
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2023.18018
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One of those psych things that I feel like people should know more about is the fact that we have collective memories across social groups, obsessed with imagining software related studies on this since I read a paper about it
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We’ve decided to leave X (Twitter). We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives, and we want to strategically use our resources to promote open scholarship and peer review on other platforms. 🧵 (1/5)
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Hey: Can I get #fedihired maybe?
Best fit with my 19 years of experience would be building and managing software teams, or writing code myself. I'm full-stack, but I have more fun with backend + database work.
Preferences:
* Org size <=200 people
* 100% remote work (otherwise, PDX)
* Org is not currently ditching DEI work
* Org is engaged in doing something that will buy the Earth some extra runtime...
* ...or at least trying very hard not to shorten it
Boosts = <3
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Anyway one time I was a researcher on a project and responsible for doing any and all of the technical math and data work and I put together a whole careful presentation because I was so excited and proud of my findings and the product person running it said my analyses were "too good" and "scared the rest of the team" and they simply disinvited me from all the upcoming project meetings and said I should email findings to that one person and not to expect a response
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2025 Prediction: Meloni's Italy is going to be showing more of its true self, and get cozier with Trumsk's America, away from European initiatives.
"Italian officials have been negotiating on a €1.5 billion deal aimed at supplying Italy with a full range of top-level encryption for telephone and Internet services used by the government”
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
