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il y a 22 minutesdiscuss

The biggest issue with 2027 was that it didn't understand the economy.

For AI2027 to be real, the money has to come from somewhere to carry on building the economy. If >10% of the workers suddenly become unemployed, and the rest taking paycuts, then money supply dries up. (unless central banks do something, but then that can be highly inflationary)

Without massive amounts of investment, AI development stops dead.

In this post, they hand wave about the USA being able to acutally 1) build concensus locally for regulation and 2) the rest of the world actually follows suit.

It fails to understand that actually the progress of AI is not actually the gift of the USA. It requires a constant supply of things from china.

Also its assuming that having 74 billion agents doesn't cause economic distortion. Like what value are these agents generating that justifies them being run?

I really wish people would just ignore this for what it is: bad sci-fi with an incomplete world.

il y a 30 minutesdiscuss

Antennae, and the front end that feeds into the SDR.

The lower the frequency, the bigger the antennae need to be (more or less) so a 2.4gig array would most likely be 2x the size of a 6ghz array.

il y a 41 minutesdiscuss

MAybe the high clock rate it to allow it to read the output of the ADCs serially?

il y a 43 minutesdiscuss

WArning I am not an expert

There is a man call leak detective, who hunts for leaks in the UK. one tool he has is shutting off the water and filling the pipes with gas and using either sound or gas detector to pin down leaks.

A lot of the time he just listens though.

il y a 44 minutesdiscuss

respeaker and https://github.com/introlab/odas might be a good starting point without having to make hardware.

Making the hardware is fairly achievable without having to do fancy things. but if you want >8 channels you'll need to make some custom interface hardware.

avant-hierdiscuss

Yup, what drove that price drop, was it a technical breakthrough?

Given that in 2019 10ml of insulin outside of USA was what $20? in the USA it was ~250?

avant-hierdiscuss

> How is changing history

If you're aruging about historical accuracy, but still want accurate looking generated images, I don't know what to say.

But to the technical point, A large part of the training corpus has biases that if left unchecked would cause PR based disasters for the company hosting it. ie the classic black teenager/white teenager.

Now as training of models is not an exact science, and neither is the fine tuning, its analogous to forcing a water balloon into a square box. Its possible but it has odd side effects when you get to the corners.

When making a _product_ you need to choose the least worse failure case. For grok it was for a long time, pandering to the ego of the owner. For Google, who is an advertising company, its about trying not to scare advertisers. This means everthing must be vanilla

avant-hierdiscuss

> Grok 4.5 isn't fascism.

THat is a fair assertion.

It is however a product of a regime that is currently debasing freedom and racially targeting its own citizens and causing them harm. Is it as bad as what happens to Chinese muslims? No.

But does it have a disproportionate effect on the rest of the world? yes. Musk is funding authoritarianism in the UK. He is funding people that are causing racial division. He is promoting views that are antithetical to the core of U belief.

Grok is a product of this man, and all that baggage.

avant-hierdiscuss

"Oh what can be done!?"

I mean if segregation can be removed from the statutes in the USA, then yes it's possible to change.

il y a 3 joursdiscuss

Yes, I think we agree on this.

Infact I would go so far to say that it requires a constant introspection to evolve society to adapt to its current environment. This would be impossible in a "perfectly" enforced system, or even a vaguely rigid one.

il y a 3 joursdiscuss

Depends on what you are after.

if you are after quietness and "power" then an old workstation is a great bet. They normally have space for at least 4 fullsized HDDs, the more modern ones have lots of PCI space for nvme-ssd cards (for space) and some have lots of lanes for speed

They also tend to come with SAS/whatever remote nvme is called/SATA expnasion options

The down side is they are not as space efficient, they also tend to have 60-120watt CPUs, so expensive to run

il y a 3 joursdiscuss

> in the past for ext4 over lvm

I used to look after storage arrays for VFX places.

everytime I saw lvm I inwardly sighed. The docs were terrible, almost as bad as MDADM. snapshots were for a long time unrecoverable. You'd then have to work out what pattern of LV you had, was it a suprise raid0? or a misaligned raid1?

zfs is a night and day compared to LVM/mdadm, two tools, rich help, the man pages are reasonably good, and once you understand zfs vs zpool, you're usually good to go.

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

Tech company: "We will now lobby the government to allow us to keep astronomically high insulin prices through large scale collusion with insurance companies"

Look, the issue is two fold:

1) The Zuckerbergs class are insulated naive boys who've never spent time in the real world. So they do not understand that thier actions might have consequences.

2) every fucking tech giant starts out promising liberty, then gradually creates either a blood sucking money printer, or some hellish sock puppet system that props up their warped world view.

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

what you mean like searching for porn? emailing client lists to your personal email?

il y a 4 joursdiscuss

> Is that satire?

are you projecting your fears?

The general point of society is that there is a collective agreement that people should live by a set of rules, and if you step outside of those rules, you will be punished.

It could be simple as someone telling you off for being rude, all the way up to prison for a huge transgression.

As ever with all things human, life exists on a spectrum. on the one had you have complete anarchy, where you are on your own with no redress from others, to complete cult like rigidity, where you have no agency.

However putting barriers up in the way to stop people easily committing crime (ie locks, drink driving bans, drivers license, restrictions on what items you can call miracle cures) are noble and mostly uncontroversial. It only really becomes a controversy when it either causes hardship, or more likely it means that people who are currently profiting from a morally grey action will lose money.

il y a 5 joursdiscuss

ahh the cyberdeck interaciton model, yeah that actually looks like it could be fun.

il y a 5 joursdiscuss

https://thepihut.com/products/ultrasonic-distance-unit-i-o-r...

as I said, an image is doable, there is opensource to do that: https://hackaday.io/project/159467-open-source-ultrasonic-ph...

accurate and repeatable is that hard bit.

il y a 5 joursdiscuss

adds animation

Battery life decreases by 25%

Adds telemetry to see why battery life is suffering

Battery lasts 10 minutes and the device gets hot to touch.

Thats going to be a brutal intro into embedded hardware

il y a 5 joursdiscuss

> AR glasses coupled to consumer hardware should actually consume less power,

Just on that point, if we are talking about a monochrome screen that is just displaying text, that is just an IO device for a mobile phone, I can see the argument but its not really the case.

Screens _eat_ power, waveguides are really not that efficient, so need mini projectors that are overdriven to produce enough light. Current off the shelf for VGA/25 degree is 95mw for the projector only, none of the other hardware. (https://www.jb-display.com/product_des/17.html)

that gives you 4000 nits to the eye. Which is about enough for normal day to day tasks in normal light. (assuming you've cracked waveguides, and thats an active area of research)

But, thats a poor experience, as its not "world locked" as in being able to attach things to real world objects. For that you need a whole new rendering system along with a SLAM stack to know where you are, a machine perception stack to work out what you are looking at. Bear in mind that 90mw for the projector is about 2/3rds of your entire power budget. bear in mind that even Bluetooth LE is quite expensive ranging from 12-40mw for streaming something like 1mb (although through LE thats a tough ask)

il y a 5 joursdiscuss

I should have made clear, my suspicions are not really around the engineers running this, its the people who are less motivated by the original cause that can see $$$ in it.

Thats the point right, most of us would, if given the chance, divert some funding to work on a passion project that could easily save lives. That I applaud and would love more people to be able to do.