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Artisian

@ Artisian @lemmy.world

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  • The Algorithm Finally Works For You

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  • We haven't invested sufficiently in them for this too be plausible. They're incentives haven't been to get very ahead either.

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  • While I had similar concerns, I do think about this a fair bit now. A nontrivial math problem was proved by Aristotle (in Lean, a proof assistant, so we're relatively sure it's correct). Alpha Evolve then generalized. GPT pro did some writing and visualization work.

    It's basically the quality of work I aspire to. Slightly cheaper, and substantially faster. Not the strongest PhD, but a solid graduate student.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • It is very interesting to me that we don't make this requirement for all large power users - factories, big suburbs, etc. Because we give power companies a monopoly (but don't put them under state control), we often let big building projects force them to expand infrastructure (and then sell access as they do). So this is a whole weird thing with capitalism meeting very regulated monopolies, in a thousand different systems cause every local has different rules.

    The thing that's breaking our systems here isn't that datacenters are big power users. It is that they can be built so quickly.

    I'm surprised we didn't make 'bring your own power' a rule before; I guess it's infrastructure that generally is useful for many people to timeshare, and often isn't fully used by just one party? Factories turn off some nights, for eg. And maybe it would be bad to have multiple power providers independently pumping power out?

  • Does everyone have an opposite gender name they would use?

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  • I do have a favorite for video game characters of the other gender. But I didn't pick it until quite late in life, and I'm not sure it's a good name for gender-bent me irl.

    Parents had a name for a AFAB child iirc; though I've forgotten it.

  • Will pictures have the same meaning they used to?

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  • You get a good number of data hoarders after a picture provider goes down/enshittifies. Yes, they'll lose at least one large collection of photos. But I suspect many folks realize they could be banned, lose their account, etc, and take some effort to save things that matter.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • If you read the article, it's because power companies are monopolies and so we've regulated them rather harshly. They are often compelled to build infrastructure to meet demand, for example. We don't make the provider of a steel mill, housing builder, etc pay (generally).

    And that's weird, right? It's one area of the market where we do a planned economy, and all states manage it differently. Now it's being stress tested in a new way.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • It's interesting to me that we don't do this for all industries. Like, if a big auto manufacturer or textile company sets up shop, the local power company is compelled to build more power plants for them (sometimes the power company eats the cost, sometimes a deal with the provider, etc. See the article). Monopolies are weird.

  • all the proof i need

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  • important repository of similar content here. Thank you University of Utah.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • Oh that's interesting. I hadn't realized the energy sector saw a C-suite pay spike too. Looking around, it seems like they were at or above pay for CEOs elsewhere. Crazy.

    We've really seen deregulation under all the administrations, eh?

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • A funny application of the law. Seems a little silly as an answer here.

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • (Made my day that somebody read the article! I feel like these technical pieces flounder in obscurity.)

  • Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?

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  • I find the different ways places answer this question really interesting. By this, I mean the systems we've had in place, the committees and applications and rules, for power providing the whole time.

    It is interesting because power is a privately owned monopoly that we regulate to the extreme; so we get all sorts of weird relationships and arrangements. Now we see them all getting stress tested.

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  • Fascinating. I see some psych studies correlating it with intelligence, but haven't found any discussing it in a cross cultural setting. I'll note that good irony requires sufficient context (the test stories psych studies use to evaluate this seem to be at least a paragraph). Do you know a good summary on the effect?

    Regardless, I'm pretty sure the OP is not only a play with proportional distribution, it also makes a basic math error. There's nowhere near enough money in the US economy to make everyone a billionaire. Total assets of all us sectors are around 150 trillion = 150 000 000 000 000 (yes freedom units are weird). Redistributed to 350 million= 350 000 000 folks leaves us with less than a million per person. Fed data

    even if we correct for demographics (babies don't need this cash quite yet), assume serious reporting errors, and I'm misreading a couple 0s somewhere in your favor, there's still not that much money.

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  • Larger family. Regular extended breaks to work on projects important to me. A news cycle that cares more about policy than the tragedy of the hour.

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  • We playing currency games?

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  • As already indicated; energy and water use is not so big. It costs substantially more data center time to store and stream high def film then to generate even hundreds of images. Generation itself is very resource cheap compared to human actors and a film crew.

  • Mobile service that doesn't know who you are: phreeli

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  • cloaked Link very interesting! Thanks.

    they are less explicit about what information they have/associate to your account? At least, they seem to advertise protection against certain sim swap attacks, not government action.

  • Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind

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  • ?? Which are improved by using ChatGPT because?

  • Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again

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  • I think this might partially be a case of different uses of the word 'burner' - what they describe is not strong opsec, but it is a way to reduce how much you provide for free (which is often more work for the company to get). By this, I mean not providing so many photos to track your every social visit and movement, not immediately providing life updates (ie, relationships, purchases).

    Will meta find out most of this? yes. But I suspect it will be slower, more error prone, and sometimes more costly. Which don't seem like a bad thing. Is there a good technical term for this? Hardening?

    Also, I'll note that the point of the suggestions is to reduce noise in a persons life, not to go off the grid. I think the blog is trying to be more about curtailing and removing sources of distraction.