the thing is in specific ways much older, i think that if you want to stretch it the first people you can credibly accuse of being ai bros were alchemists trying to cook homunculus, or trying to get infinite knowledge out if philosophers’ stone
There’s a slight chance that we’ll see a
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this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn’t need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off
i don’t know, maybe softbank counted on openai not being able to go for-profit (which is not IPO, so it’s not like they got more transparent or anything). that deal was signed long time ago in bubble terms, and it went like this (or so i heard): first tranche was 10B from softbank + up ro 10B from other investors, they couldn’t get all that money from other investors and that’s why it was 18.5B and not 20B. that was some half year ago? even back then softbank didn’t had the money and had to sell part of arm (iirc). now they had to supply the remaining 22.5B, idk if it’s all softbank, or whether they would get out of that deal if they could, or whether they will continue pouring money there (we can assume all these dcs are vaporware) can openai find other suckers? possibly, but scaring away a reliable one would be bad for business
new zitron: ed picks up calculator and goes through docs from microsoft and some others, and concludes that openai has less revenue than thought previously (probably?, ms or openai didn’t comment), spends more on inference than thought previously, openai revenue inferred from microsoft share is consistently well under inference costs https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Before publishing, I discussed the data with a Financial Times reporter. Microsoft and OpenAI both declined to comment to the FT.
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also on ft (alphaville) https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e7d5
ed notes that there might be other revenue, but that’s only inference with azure, and then there are training costs wherever it is filed under, debts, commitments, salaries, marketing, and so on and so on
e: fast news day today eh?
if you think it’s stupid, it’s not as stupid as it sounds, it’s worse. they also sold some tmobile stock and took debt backed by ownership of arm. it’s like they instinctively get rid of pieces of ai bubble that retains some money and hold to pieces that are black holes
things that bounce from ionosphere. shortwave radio, AM broadcast, some military communications. couple of radiooperators will take a break for a day or two until space weather gets calm. unlikely that satellites would get fried
if you’re lucky, you might see aurora tomorrow, even if you’re in area that usually doesn’t have them (easier for southern hemisphere)
my read of the situation is that it’s another phenomenal softbank L even if they timed this sale at the top of the nvdia valuation. if they thought it’s a bubble popping soon, they would try to get out of openai deals, but they’re doing the opposite. most immediately, they need money to dump 20B-ish into openai by end of the year, triggered by that no-profit transition, and it’s money that they apparently don’t have. that their stock dumped like 15% in a week probably didn’t help either
These people aren’t looking for scientists, they’re looking for alchemists
and only feels cool and useful when you’re learning to write
here if you need anything over certain power (6kW; depends on country i guess) you need a three phase installation, and even if you get single phase, it’s really handled as three phase split between single phase customers (a block gets three phase supply, then splits flats in three groups, each group gets connected to one phase). this gets supplied by a distribution transformer that might serve somewhere around 200 people per (in residential areas)
i understand that sometimes americans also get distribution like this, with 208/120 three phase coming from substation, without 240v available
american version would probably only have two phases at best, and possibly just one
wait, how do you route cables in there? is there just a massive bundle right through the middle?
i think you need to be a little bit more specific unless sounding a little like an unhinged cleric from memritv is what you’re going for
but yeah nah i don’t think it’s gonna last this way, people want to go back to just doing their jobs like it used to be, and i think it may be that bubble burst wipes out companies that subsidized and provided cheap genai, so that promptfondlers hammering image generators won’t be as much of a problem. propaganda use and scams will remain i guess
ye except that depending on how paranoid are you this also means that all personal/small instances will be always suspicious and most of popular instances allow lots of that by default
previous stubsack https://awful.systems/comment/9235549 i don’t think too hard about it, because to a degree all pr people are professional liars in the first place, but bluesky didn’t like it
These sound like some random plankton orgs, you can just as well pick a name and start your own