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For me it’s pretty simple why I don’t go there.

A Pizza Hut large pizza, sans discounts, begins at £23/£27. And it tastes likes ass, while also in the past ~2 years the amount of cheese and toppings was reduced by half, at least.

Meanwhile, the little “greasy spoon” pizza place that delivers within 15 minutes, for the same price, will do a family meal deal of 2 large pizzas (with tons of toppings and proper amount of cheese!), a large garlic pizza bread, an extra side and a 2L drink.

Oh and the latter pizza tastes awesome, is delivered with care (by their own drivers, not an UberEats fuckwit who’ll toss the pizza in his backpack vertically), and the place regularly tossed in a little extra for frequent orders, like an extra dessert…

Here’s a better idea, expand the building on the Canadian side, and house all the books of the US side (and even more), so that Canadians literally have no reason to go across the border.

Sends a stronger message IMO.

A combination of various renewables (solar, wind, hydro in its various forms), combined with sustainable high density storage and a global network of power delivery with multiple redundancies is the solution.

But it will obviously not happen as it isn’t in shareholders’ interest to have sustainable, cheap energy.

No worries mate, we can’t all be experts of every field and every topic!

Besides there are other AI models that are relatively small and depend on processing power more than RAM. For example there’s a bunch of audio analysis tools that don’t just transcribe information but also diarise it (split it up by speaker), extract emotional metadata (e.g. certain models can detect sarcasm quite well, others spot general emotions like happiness or sadness or anger), and so on. Image categorisation models are also super tiny, though usually you’d want to load them into the DSP-connected NPU of appropriate hardware (e.g. a newer model “smart” CCTV camera would be using a SoC that has NPU to load detection models into, and do the processing for detecting people, cars, animals, etc. onboard instead of on your NVR).

Also by my count, even somewhat larger training systems such as micro wakeword training, would fit into the 196MB V-Cache.

True, but don’t forget that the internet essentially destroyed the last guardrail against stupidity: social exclusion.

Pre-internet (not even social media mind you as prior to that, BBSes and forums existed), if you were a dumbfuck, you got excluded. No friends, no hanging out with people, nobody wanted to spend time with you. And most people being social beings, you’d want to avoid that, therefore you either didn’t voice those opinions, or learned to change them.

Then came the internet and suddenly, the morons found brethren. First were the conspiracy theorists who were already excluded, finding safe havens to hide out at. But then slowly - and this is where mass social media, and easy access to it via smartphones and tablets, and affordable computing, comes in - the other morons, let them be racists, antisemites, homophobes, transphobes, etc., slowly discovered that hey, while they might be alone in their surroundings, they’re not alone when you account for 7 (back then, today it’s 8) billion people!

And so the last guardrail was gone, and stupidity, a la Idiocracy, has begun to spread.

Not to mention that the Nazis, coming out of hiding, were quick to utilise these new spaces to recruit people. Now with less overt racism and antisemitism, they preyed on the newer generation.

Remember when around 2012-13-14, all the big meme sites - 9gag, iFunny, etc. - slowly became more and more extremists, racist, and overtly Nazi? That was a somewhat coordinated move, capturing the youngest generation knowing full well their parents aren’t yet tech-savvy enough to do anything about it. Kids under 20-22 lack the reasoning skills older people do, this directly leads to lesser understanding on how bad their actions are, and how they’re being influenced. Which did happen slowly but surely, and resulted in the Trunp win just a few years later.

Mind you I’m not saying these people don’t need to take responsibility for their actions - they most definitely do. I’m purely explaining the reasons why things unfolded as they did, so we can prevent it in the future.

The real mistake was not finishing the job of getting rid of all Nazis back in 1945.

Can’t put direct blame on Dear Leader, after all.

Oh, good to know. Last time I checked around WASM this wasn’t really an option.

AI workflows aren’t limited to LLMs you know.

For example, TTS and STT models are usually small enough (15-30MB) to be loaded directly into V-cache. I was thinking of such small scale local models, especially when you consider AMD’s recent forays into providing a mixed environment runtime for their hardware (GAIA framework that can dynamically run your ML models on CPU, NPU and GPU, all automagically)

Sounds like at this point if you want to kill someone, it’s enough to report them to the police.

They either get swatted or the investigation opened will make life impossible enough for them to commit suicide…

Even if it is… You’d seriously deny a vet housing because they had an investigation opened against them, that, again, was closed without further action?

Troops ain’t worth shit in this case, sadly. The real deterrent is the presence of quick-response military at large.

And your comment also counts for jackshit since you provided no evidence of your claims, not even your own experience.

So you can fuck right off, buddy.

Most anti-vaxxers were all about how the COVID vaccine will kill you in 3-5 years.

Then it turns out that in some instances the vaccine actually extends your life.

That, I’d call a polar opposite.

I have worked on games, and have a good understanding of the workflows involved.

You’ll obviously still need to do the creative parts manually (and should!) but the majority of the work involving the engine core build and the specific game coding, that can all be sped up borderline exponentially.

But I’m glad that someone with absolutely no understanding of the topic does their best to call out those who do show some experience on the topic just because they don’t get a neatly pre-chewed and pre-digested reply detailing all the information they lack and are unwilling to look it up themselves. As a next step would you like me to cut your steak up and feed it to you byte by byte, or tuck you in at night?

See the main issue with that is you need to bundle everything into the app.

Modern computing is inherently cross-dependent on runtimes and shared libraries and whatnot, to save space. Why bundle the same 300MB runtime into five different apps when you can download it once and share it between the apps? Or even better, have a newer, backwards compatible version of the runtime installed and still be able to share it between apps.

With WASM you’re looking at bundling every single dependency, every single runtime, framework and whatnot, in the final binary. Which is fine for one-off small things, but when everything is built that way, you’re sacrificing tons of storage and bandwidth unnecessarily.

Disappointing but not unexpected. Most Chinese companies still work on the “absolute secrecy because competitors might steal our tech” ideology. Which hinders a lot of things…

What, you don’t have a few spare photonic vacuums in your parts drawer?

Well, yeah, when management is made up of dumbasses, you get this. And I’d argue some 90% of all management is absolute waffles when it comes to making good decisions.

AI can and does accelerate workloads if used right. It’s a tool, not a person replacement. You still need someone who can utilise the right models, research the right approaches and so on.

What companies need to realise is that AI accelerating things doesn’t mean you can cut your workforce by 70-90%, and still keep the same deadlines, but that with the same workforce you can deliver things 3-4 times faster. And faster delivery means new products (let it be a new feature or a truly brand new standalone product) have a lower cost basis even though the same amount of people worked on them, and the quicker cadence means quicker idea-to-profits timeline.