hirpslop

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by hirpslop 2mo ago
ChatGPT estimates for $300,000 I can build a 10x12 datacenter in my backyard with an operating breakeven at 29% utilization and 489 year capital payback. No thanks, not in my back yard.
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by hirpslop 4mo ago
The bay’s first LLM (large liquid model) was invented in the 1950s.
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by hirpslop 4mo ago
I agree with a caveat: the offending agency’s budget should be impacted rather than the general fund. The cost of lawsuits ideally would be itemized in the budget and publicized to show which agencies have legal waste. Otherwise the drag on
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We may be entering a second axial age(noemamag.com)
4 points by hirpslop 5mo ago|0 comments
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AI uses less water than the public thinks(californiawaterblog.com)
409 points by hirpslop 5mo ago|395 comments
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by hirpslop 5mo ago
c/o Jay Lund, Vice Director, Center for Watershed Engineering Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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by hirpslop 5mo ago
Tried to replicate the second result multiple times with Opus 4.7. No luck. Various prompts and it guesses ‘rationalist-community’ thinkers each time.
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AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California(californiawaterblog.com)
2 points by hirpslop 5mo ago|0 comments
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by hirpslop 6mo ago
Yes, that’s exactly right. Maximal ‘individual liberty’ is my right to maximize my land’s value. My neighbors either agree to maximize theirs in a way that increases, or doesn’t hinder, mine, or they are my enemy to be litigated to death by
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by hirpslop 7mo ago
This may or may not lead to a weaker Iran. From FP: “Iran is frequently portrayed as a political order bound tightly to individuals. Yet the architecture that emerged after 1979 was formed by a different logic, one founded in the revolution
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by hirpslop 8mo ago
/cocaine should talk at length about the amazing new code you’re going to write together until it burns through all its tokens
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by hirpslop 8mo ago
American government cash transfers overwhelmingly skew rural with the caveat that income maintenance is a smaller slice of the pie. This report illustrates rural cash transfers beautifully: https://eig.org/great-transfermat
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Silicon Empires: The Political Economy of AI with Nick Srnicek(thedigradio.com)
2 points by hirpslop 8mo ago|0 comments
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After AI(newleftreview.org)
3 points by hirpslop 9mo ago|1 comments
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by hirpslop 9mo ago
An analysis of the sustainability of AI financing by Cédric Durand, political economist at the University of Geneva.
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by hirpslop 9mo ago
As part of a research project, I combed through archives of my local paper from the 70s and 80s. As a practice exercise, I highly recommend you log in to your local library and try exploring yours. I was stunned at the quality papers used t
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by hirpslop 9mo ago
Logged on to say Kagi[1] [1]not an employee, sponsor, or autonomous agent of the above company
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"AI is an attack from above on wages" ft. cognitive scientist Hagen Blix(bloodinthemachine.com)
6 points by hirpslop 1y ago|1 comments
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by hirpslop 1y ago
Hagen Blix on AI as a wage depreciation strategy rather than a productivity tool.
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Malign Coincidence – MAGA and the moment of hyperscaling(open.substack.com)
1 points by hirpslop 1y ago|1 comments
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by hirpslop 1y ago
Adam Tooze’s analysis of an era defining alliance of convenience
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AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)(johnquigginblog.substack.com)
65 points by hirpslop 1y ago|116 comments