jankeymeulen

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by jankeymeulen 2mo ago
A decent EV will let you do 300km at highway speed. Starting at 100% at home, that's 4 times a 45 minutes break every 2.5 hours, which is a good idea anyway.
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by jankeymeulen 8mo ago
From the article: 1.859 billion kWh. Divide by 1 year = 212 megawatt. Definitely not small. Not that gigantic either, compared to current day (US) AI/hyperscalers.
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by jankeymeulen 1y ago
Storage densities these days are kinda amazing, it's not that much of a datacenter. Assuming you chunk it with triple redundancy, that's 220k TB raw. 10k 22 TB disks, you put them in one of those 4U 50 disk storage pods. 200 pods,
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by jankeymeulen 1y ago
Adding more 9s is costly, and AI training is very suitable to be throttled and/or interrupted. I'm not talking about days or weeks of downtime, but these things are definitely being considered. Source: I'm working at a Goog
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by jankeymeulen 1y ago
Depends on the use case. Dedicated datacenters for ML training can trade off power reliability vs. other factors like cost or carbon emissions.
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by jankeymeulen 1y ago
I was thinking the same, who on earth would want that, so did my technical colleagues, but since the AI summaries rolled out over here, non-technical folks I've asked about it actually seem to like it.
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by jankeymeulen 2y ago
A 5V drop at 1000 Amps also means 5000 Watts of heat generated, you probably want something with less of a drop.
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by jankeymeulen 2y ago
Not really, the whole point of this type of cloud offering is that it doesn't phone home to Google / the US. Sure, it will be left to the partner to support all of it, but it can't be shut down from one day to the other. (Goo
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by jankeymeulen 2y ago
Take a look where (US) hyperscalers have presence, they still need to be able to expand.
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by jankeymeulen 2y ago
The TPUs are highly integrated with the rest of the internal Google ecosystem, both hardware and software. Untangling that would be ... interesting.
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by jankeymeulen 2y ago
but paper that ends up in the environment is almost surely better
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by jankeymeulen 2y ago
There is a $6B increase in purchase of properties and equipment vs. 23Q1.
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by jankeymeulen 3y ago
3 phase typically has 400V between the phases and neutral in Europe, the phases don't gain you anything, but the voltage does.
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by jankeymeulen 3y ago
Small? I saw an SR-71 at National Air and Space Museum near Dulles and I was amazed by how big is for a two-seater.
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
Not really. Even the most evil Google one can imagine would realise "your data" is the most valuable thing they possess, selling it would be bad for business. They're selling ads to the highest bidder who's looking for s
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
So is OpenAI actually, GPT -> transformer, invented at Google. DALL-E -> diffusion, invented at ... Google.
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Ritom Pumped-Storage Plant Project(youtube.com)
1 points by jankeymeulen 4y ago|0 comments
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
Good you mention a teflon-type coating in a discussion about 'forever chemicals'.
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
sound like just the caption of the stock photo copy/pasted, they typically have these kind of very specific descriptions
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
Amazon will pay perhaps $50 for a 10TB disk, 10x it to cover for redundancy and the servers and datacenters to put the disks in, and you're looking at "only" 16 mil savings for an exabyte.
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
They'd be retired by now, even the most junior engineer in 1970 would be into their seventies.
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by jankeymeulen 4y ago
Like the Oberon OS and programming language?
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
Belgium (my country) imports about 400% of its domestic use in LNG, to then sell it to neighbouring countries via pipelines. Doesn't make sense if LNG was too expensive.
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Home Assistant pressure sensor capturing Hunga Tonga Volcano eruption
2 points by jankeymeulen 5y ago|1 comments
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
Or, instead of creating Bitcoin with excess energy, one could produce e.g. hydrogen. Which, compared to Bitcoin, has a lot more uses.
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
More likely someone actually will. A blameless postmortem will be written, and the people that will fix the bug or systems issue will have something to work on with high visibility and high impact, which tends to translate in good performan
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
Yes. For professional setups, typically you'd have a coax going from the roof somewhere to the rack inside the data center where your time server is located.
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
How's that? I could see climate change decreasing biodiversity for sure, but how would decreasing biodiversity lead to climate change?
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
Will Apple do it differently?
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by jankeymeulen 5y ago
Good luck converting the BTC back to energy though.

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