Diffusion models aren't terribly power hungry compared to something like chatGPT*, but it's weird and honestly worthless idea in the first place, so please shit on it.
*Technically you can have a gpt text embedding to drive a diffusion model so they can be just as bad, but it isn't necessarily always the case.
Did you know you can buy the tags online? and with some electrical know-how you can make them say what you want. A little time and effort and now you have a tag that says whatever price you want on it. If they got switched at the store at that point, well, how would you know? Just work in teams to make the switch less obvious on the cameras.
I was reading something a few weeks ago that Epstein associate whose name I forgot was writing a novel, and rumors were forming that Trump would drop out if there was mention of video of him. Could be related to that.
I'm going to slap down a hot take that is somewhat tangential to the article. I think deep learning models of many kinds are actually good. I use ML for speech to text, and text to speech. I use home assistant, with it's AI powered tools. Hell, I've even generated images to help me visualize descriptions of things (it was not useful tbh). All of these uses help me, both with my disability and with just making my day easier, and it all ran LOCAL HARDWARE. The fact is a almost any of the use cases for ML can be made small enough to run locally, but there are almost no good local ML accelerators. Something like 90% of sentences sent to Google home was requests to set a timer. You don't need a data center for that.
This is the true intent of these ridiculously power hungry data center cards, to build out a sort of rentier class of hardware owners (Nvidia the largest among them) that others have to rent from to stay cutting edge. This has been the dream since software as a service was thrown around 10 years ago. But just like streaming services, SaaS, and indeed rent, once the demand has been fully monopolized or trusted into whatever sectors it may end up in the price will skyrocket. ML could have been a real revolution in improving people's lives, but instead the hardware makers saw only a way to develop a route to make money with no work of their own, and the theft of work from others.
Kissenger wasn't able to teach the next generation of statesmen how to crack the whip before he died
It's something. Which is more than the nothing we've had before now. All the more reason to keep pushing.
Yarrr, where it be? me crew be looking for our next haul of booty! 🏴☠️
Map of the U.S. base expansion
That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesn’t come from dinasaurs
I've always wanted to tell someone who says shit like this that it's actually a deep state misinformation to maintain the petro-dollar
More 'resistance' than I expected from Iowans tbh
Oh really? Do the whites you hang out with use the term refer to any car mod you don't like? Have you asked them where the term comes from?
I'm working on a theory, that the rise of livestreaming and the erosion of rights, or at least sympathy, for the disabled are connected. You can decide what kind of -posting this is, but the disabled have historically been shunned to venues of less-than-repute entertainment to make a living. Carnival workers, 'freak show' members, etc. And live streaming is just the next venue to pop off. As more disabled people, who are unable to work a regular job, give streaming a chance (www.twitch.tv/myelint tomorrow at 1 p.m. est) the expectation that the disabled will be able to make a good amount of money just playing video games is reinforced in society and the idea that we may need assistance, especially financial, becomes less accepted.
But even for the successful, it's just like working those older jobs. There is no advancement in the field of streaming, just as there was no advancement for working at a carnival. Even worse, creators on streaming platforms are not given the same workers' protections as a regular job, beholden to the 'gig economy' style of employment where you can have your job snatched out from under you and you get no attempt to bargain your own pay. Then there is the fact that you have to be constantly performing and hope you don't lose your audience.