#Technology Acceleration

[ranticore]

sorry if this question is already answered elsewhere but how much time passes between the creation of ishmael vs the modern siren setting with qedivar et al?

intentionally never stated because i don't want to box myself in with a ridiculous number that i have to retcon later haha. safe to say it's several centuries, maybe a thousand years, maybe less. who knows!

[science70]

Lower magnet sectors being assembled in the cyclotron vault of the TRIUMF particle accelerator, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1971.

[looney-mooney]

I’m making an animatic for the Summerstuck AU (AU where Phineas and Ferb are Alternian Trolls from Homestuck) and I’ve gotten to the part where their former lusii (fantastical white animal guardians who raise the Troll Children of Alternia, since all the adults are off doing space adventures) are thrown into the Kernel Sprites (colorful floating ghost-like game constructs that base their forms mostly off the player’s deceased loved ones, who act as guides for the players as they play the game that ends the universe and gives birth to the next one) and I’ve decided that Ferb’s former Lusus should be Steve (a kaiju chameleon in the show who Ferb is very emotionally attached to). When deciding how to portray Steve’s remains, I sort of naturally gravitated towards having him be taxidermied in Ferb’s shed.

The unintentional ramifications of this is that I have inadvertently implied that, on some cosmic level, Ferb Fletcher is a Harley.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Interesting. Don’t necessarily think I’m autistic but I have more going on than just ADHD and I’m not sure what that is.

[disgustedorite]

I have never seen a greater ad for virtual reality. if only we also got fully simulated sensations irl

[daily-public-domain]

I’m back !!

Day 87: Cyclotron with glowing beam

link

–This image is part of the public domain, meaning you can do anything you want with it ! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever)–

[kraniumet]

least spirited extortion campaign

[techdriveplay]

Why Quantum Computing Will Change the Tech Landscape

The technology industry has seen significant advancements over the past few decades, but nothing quite as transformative as quantum computing promises to be. Why Quantum Computing Will Change the Tech Landscape is not just a matter of speculation; it’s grounded in the science of how we compute and the immense potential of quantum mechanics to revolutionise various sectors. As traditional…

[meccle]

Only peripherally following the whole cybertruck thing but loving the comments on mkbhd's new short about the mass recall

[ruvviks]

he's written several books about outer space after his thesis btw. most of them discuss popular theories and try to form a clearer understanding of every one of them + their origins + how realistic they are without roasting the original author to hell and back

[faultfalha]

A new accelerator is launched in Hyderabad, incubating startups in the cutting edge field of DeepTech. iTIC Incubator and H4XLabs have partnered to bring this program to India, with the aim of supporting entrepreneurs who are working on groundbreaking projects in this area.

[wintechinsitute]

DBM Course Online in India – Vikaspuri Description: Enroll in a fully online diploma in business management based in Vikaspuri—learn at your pace with interactive modules and certification.

[vetcgaming]

Graphics Acceleration and Video Enhancement available in Microsoft Edge! | @MicrosoftEdge @Windows @Microsoft @windowsinsider #MicrosoftEdge #Microsoft50 #tech

[tab-irl]

AI is this nexus just Outside of space-time that allows all prior human labour and creativity to be leveraged and focused through like a laser beam toward any goal, trivial or profound (generating porn vs cancer research).

It is a cosmic crime that this technology is being used to "create" art and replace workers, but there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. You can either fight over that nexus (by supporting open source models) or take an emitter for yourself and start applying it towards your own goals. Stick to text chats if you're worried about the environment.

Posting about how much you dislike AI is actively counterproductive to your stated aims because you're increasing the training data available for future models.

All of these systems are incentivized against you. You can take damage in cyberspace. Chat especially loves answering prompts with a question. But this a pivotal moment for our species (unfortunately). This is the widening of the aperture.

If you can grab this bull by the horns (and not be gored by schizophrenia-inducing engagement maximization algorithms), it will accelerate your personal growth in ways you can't expect. If you're already working for free towards some sort of liberation (which is key to staying sane), AI can be a force multiplier in that work.

From https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use

A commonly-cited claim is that powering an individual ChatGPT query requires around 3 watt-hours of electricity, or 10 times as much as a Google search.1 This is often brought up to express concern over AI’s impact on the environment, climate change, or the electric grid.

However, we believe that this figure of 3 watt-hours per query is likely an overestimate. In this issue, we revisit this question using a similar methodology, but using up-to-date facts and clearer assumptions. We find that typical ChatGPT queries using GPT-4o likely consume roughly 0.3 watt-hours, which is ten times less than the older estimate. This difference comes from more efficient models and hardware compared to early 2023, and an overly pessimistic estimate of token counts in the original estimate.

For context, 0.3 watt-hours is less than the amount of electricity that an LED lightbulb or a laptop consumes in a few minutes. And even for a heavy chat user, the energy cost of ChatGPT will be a small fraction of the overall electricity consumption of a developed-country resident. The average US household2 uses 10,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, or over 28,000 watt-hours per day.3

This estimate of 0.3 watt-hours is actually relatively pessimistic (i.e. erring towards high energy costs), and it is possible that many or most queries are actually much cheaper still. However, this will vary with use case—queries with long input lengths or with longer outputs (e.g. using reasoning models) may be substantially more energy-intensive than 0.3 watt-hours. And training and inference for future models may consume much more energy than using ChatGPT today.