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Every problem has an ‘obvious’ solution on the surface after thinking for ten seconds. Data centers/supercomputers/similar facilities have agreements to ensure
by fooker 2y ago
Every problem has an ‘obvious’ solution on the surface after thinking for ten seconds.
Data centers/supercomputers/similar facilities have agreements to ensure uninterrupted power.
The grid would sooner cut off residential power than risk running foul of SLAs.
Most developing countries are very familiar with this, the technical term ‘load shedding’ having entered common parlance because of the frequency of power cuts faced by consumers.
- dartos 2y agoKind of off topic, but > Every problem has an ‘obvious’ solution on the surface after thinking for ten seconds. Is kind of a silly statement. What’s the obvious way to automatically detect pictures of birds? Because diffusion and transformers are not it.
- fooker 2y agoGreat point. My cousin just (last year…) tried to do this as some extra credit high school thing. The ‘obvious’ solution was detecting edges with a python library and manually writing up 4-5 functions to identify features. It’s surprising that this even comes close to working.
- dartos 2y agoMaybe subjective, but I don’t think edge detection is “obvious” unless you spent time looking into image processing. Even then, grabbing an existing package is just offloading the solution discovery to someone else.
- fooker 2y agoIf it occurred to a 17yo without CS knowledge it's somewhat obvious. And offloading tricky logic to libraries is kind of how we build all software.
- dartos 2y agoYour cousin may just be very smart. I’ve been programming since I was 9 and I don’t think that would’ve occurred to me when I was 17 lol And yeah that is how we build all software, but just because someone else made a solution to something doesn’t mean that solution is obvious.