We have our clients switch to Linux now. Ignition works well enough and it’s so much cheaper. It has drawbacks compared to wonderware, or the Siemens stack though. But I’ll take those issues over logging into their systems still running on winXP.
The slowness was mostly a hardware issue. It’s basically like driving a second monitor, and a lot of the slower phones struggled with it early on.
They would probably have a panic attack if they learned about megasquirt. Cars being locked down is so unnatural that most of their design allows them to be controlled by open source solutions.
We do this comparison, with the added “will this save money” modification. My time outside of 40 hours per week can’t make me more money unless OT is approved. So that time is worth $0/hr. If the actions i do during that time save me money, I try to do them. It massively increases the amount of money we have for vacations and other fun stuff.
I’m also undiagnosed hyper focused ADHD, so that may be why. My wife tells me I can slow down, but I absolutely cannot.
Fascism doesn’t allow corporate push back. Fascists adopt whatever they think will get populist support then force it into the market. They dont care about real action, only the appearance of action, which pleases their populist voters. Which is why rolling over to stupid shit like removing “DEI” verbiage is the smart choice in the short and long run for any business.
Pushing back when the business doesn’t have support only makes their image worse. Costco is the exception and not the rule.
Fair enough. I personally shop at costco and winco primarily. Target is the “large retailer” compromise I make over Walmart or Kroger. The massive focus on target is so confusing when their competitors are 10x worse.
I think it’s more complicated than that. Large companies always hedge their bets. In this case publicly appearing to bend just gets this stupid administration to shut up about whatever culture war they are currently waging. They never actually check if said company is actually doing anything besides removing the term “dei” in this case. Then, in a few years if our government swings back to the direction that matches public polling sentiment. They can release data about diversity again, which will be good PR.
It’s always been strange to me that anyone would expect a massive retailer to stand up to fascists. Costco is a rare exception and they only are doing it because it made them money and will continue to make money. None of these decisions are about doing what is right. Instead, it’s all about profits.
It’s more they became the most pushed one and you fell for it. Large companies restructure constantly and they made the smart move to hide their diversity policy from the current administration. They still have diversity goals, they just don’t share them with the public.
My company did the same thing. Removed the DEI term but left everything else in place. You fell for their corporate renaming strategy.
The BPA one is even funnier because it is used very often to coat metal food preservation containers. But thank jeebus we threw out all of those polycarbonate water bottles that contain basically zero BPA. Keep enjoying that canned chili though.
Fair enough. I’d be fine being wrong.
Improved efficiency would reduce the catastrophic energy demands LLMs will have in the future. Assuming your reality comes true it would help reduce their environmental impact.
We’ll see. This isn’t first “it’s the future” technology I’ve seen and I’m barely 40.
I’ll take a step back. These LLM models are interesting. They are being trained in interesting new ways. They are becoming more ‘accurate’, I guess. ‘Accuracy’ is very subjective and can be manipulated.
Machine learning is still the same though.
LLMs still will never expand beyond their inputs.
My point is it’s not early anymore. We are near or past the peak of LLM development. The extreme amount of resources being thrown at it is the sign that we are near the end.
That sub should not be used to justify anything, just like any subreddit at any point in time.
It’s not easy to solve because its not possible to solve. ML has been around since before computers, it’s not magically going to get efficient. The models are already optimized.
Revenue isn’t profit. These companies are the biggest cost sinks ever.
Heating a single building is a joke marketing tactic compared to the actual energy impact these LLM energy sinks have.
I’m an automation engineer, LLMs suck at anything cutting edge. Its basically a mainstream knowledge reproducer with no original outputs. Meaning it can’t do anything that isnt already done.
None of this is true.
I’ve worked on data centers monitoring power consumption, we need to stop calling LLM power sinks the same thing as data centers. Its basically whitewashing the power sucking environmental disasters that they are.
Machine learning is what you are describing. LLMs being puppeted as AI is destructive marketing and nothing more.
LLMs are somewhat useful at dumb tasks and they do a pretty dumb job at it. They feel like when I was new at my job and for decades could produce mediocre bullshit, but I was too naive to know it sucked. You can’t see how much they suck yet because you lack experience in the areas you use them in.
Your two cost saving points are pulled from nowhere just like how LLM inference works.
The current machine learning models (AI for the stupid) rely on input data, which is running out.
Processing power per watt is stagnating. Moors law hasn’t been true for years.
Who will pay for these services? The dot com bubble destroyed everyone who invested in it. Those that “survived” sprouted off of the corpse of that recession. LLMs will probably survive, but not in the way you assume.
Nvidia helping openAI survive is a sign that the bubble is here and ready to blow.
When AI is actually invented I’ll call it AI. Right now we have a steroid juiced parrot that’s based on old school machine learning. Its great at summarizing simple data, but terrible at real tasks.
This is more people who aren’t dumb telling the marketing teams to stop hyping something that doesn’t exist. The dot com boom is echoing. The profit will never materialize.
Trusted someone with my reputation once. Fucked me over. They went to jail for a bit. Got out, fucked someone else over, almost killed them while stealing all their retirement funds. Back to jail. Got out started grooming a child and having sex with them. They are back in jail currently.
This person taught me how to recognize evil people very quickly. I’m trying to avoid any identifying info because the second two times they were arrested made international news because of how fucked up it was both times.
I was going to shit all over this thing, but if it can do ~500hp continuously that’s awesome. Wonder what kind of efficiency it has and what the cooling requirements are. That low weight puts us back into unsprung wheel motor territory, especially if it scales down well.
Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I’ve had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I’d take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.
I work in supply chain and manufacturing now lol. Tesla is a major fuck up of a company.
I worked with some of their engineers after they left and they aren’t very bright.
I had a bad case of Strep throat last year and numbers I saw on the thermometer should’ve killed me. I kept passing out and choking down Tylenol trying to get my fever under control. I was hallucinating so I couldn’t understand how much danger I was in. Besides how awful my throat felt and the fever, I never felt scared of dying.
I lost my vision on the way to the ER after suffering all night. Still took 3 hours in the waiting room because the nurse didn’t believe me. Told me I had “man flu”.