decent performance on 6gb gpu without quantization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_5pdcD3HY&t=9s

qwen 3.6 is awesome, but 48-64gb is still real money these days. (though 32gb on dedicated separate machine is also more money). Sonnet 3.5 to opus 4.5 level benchmarks. and the online cost metrics for 27b and 35b are way off considering the overall usefulness of a 48-64gb machine (inclusive of gpu vram for 35b) which even in single, non batching, use could displace $5-$7/day of use.

Local costs are much lower than online costs in linked chart, but if online, there are better models

when the temperatures rise, the wind would die,” he said, illustrating one of several reasons he and others think offshore wind isn’t suitable for Lake Erie.

No rebuttal addressed in article. Winter is actually highest energy use in region, and it can all be decarbonized. Solar is allowed as an energy source to help with summer loads.

Literally the most absurd offer in history of universe. You pay $150/month to have some extra noise and space taken away from you. While they install batteries in your home, it is for their use, and takes up more space. All you get is a phone app that can turn off lights in other rooms.

Their production rate is still 4 per month. They did promise large production capacity this year.

Can’t peaches be used to make alcohol? Is closing of canning plants with captive supply based on US immigration policies?

ty. didn’t know it was real. No one else could possibly pick out the squirrel out of the 3 other animals, so I would brag too :P

Weird map should be illegal, not on race basis, but, they made districts in the middle of nowhere smaller, while there are giant districts spreading over populous Nashville and Memphis in addition to giant rural area.

To analyze effect on election outcomes, https://engaging-data.com/county-electoral-map-land-vs-population/ (shows county results that districts don’t respect, afaiu) you could compare 2020 election results, and add Dems overperforming 10% over Biden, and that can be more than 1 tenessee district blue. If this is midterm map, memphis/nashville turnout can win 3-4 states.

This can happen, because GOP in Memphis/Nashville would run a lesser-nazi (not Trump sycophant) level candidate to just steal a few votes for senate/national level, and voter turnout can be low if they know district result is certain. Even splitting Memphis 3 ways, winning all 3 districts is possible. Nashville split is not clear to me.

You can be angry at GOP bs, but this is mostly an opportunity for Dems. Older map was a much longer shot at flipping a seat.

Safe Dem seats also is a recipe for pure Zionist first, do nothing else, rule. Same with racially divided seats that increase divisiveness, and increase pure facist ideology from bumfuck counties, who don’t need to concern themselves with humanist values, because none of their voter base has any.

new generation of models makes the cost of inference lower, so that with sufficient customer volume, the companies running the models can make enough profit on inference to make up for the staggering up-front capital expenditures

cost per quality is definitely going down at a fast rate. LLM providers are in extremely competitive field, where open weight models are at a huge competitive advantage for any quality level (privacy, customizability). The competition is all on 2 month release cycles that essentially throw away the old version/code/weights each time. When Claude pretends its newest model is too powerful for non oligarchs to use, it limits its token reach, and then required contribution margin per token.

The buisness model flaw is “one day, a winner becomes a monopoly, and AGI self improves the model at low (except for ultra expensive compute) cost.” Monopoly pricing power is very hard/impossible to achieve, because if necessary, foreign governments will subsidize competition to not let a hostile US empire AGI monoplist take hold. Due to corrupt energy oligarchy, it is categorically impossible for US hosted services to ever provide comparative value compared to rational economic energy policies outside of the US. Distillation (Teacher/student RL) means that using another AGI (or leading LLM) will improve models that are behind. There will always be competition on the price/quality curve that prevents even the best/most expensive model from capturing all share. There’s always free tier LLM competition availability as well.

Finally, there are layers above LLMs. Agentic and swarm and “deterministic program access”/validation front ends to LLMs can add various levels of token burn, but also divert most tokens from the expensive LLMs, and iteratively improve output. There isn’t just a cost/quality curve there is a cost/speed/quality/privacy curve, where non AI coordination tools can improve on the latter curve points independently of leading/expensive LLM/AGI quality.

This is new, and somehow related to onshore wind farms. Courts have issued rulings that DoD BS about radar interference was BS related to offshore windfarms, (previously OK’d by DOD for not creating interference) essentially allowing them to resume. This would be even more BS, with no possible chance of passing court review, because DoD can’t make radar BS claim.

Can’t you just vibe code your banking app? As long as I can make my balance higher, this will beat iphone rounded corners banking app.

so paywalled, didn’t even show a byline.

This is fundamental mechanism behind subprime crisis., Channels to offload debt so that more debt can be issued.

good and bad news, simultaneous: No one can have hitchless towing until patent expiration: 17 years from then, afaik.

The wifi part is completely unnecesary, but powered wheeled trailers that assist “pull” is a clear benefit. Especially for camper trailers who need electricity to power life inside them. Solar+batteries also helps them power your primary home when they are parked. But a hitch, and wired “data” connection, is basic safety backup, and does not need a separate WIFI tow motor/vehicle.

First, space solar/datacenters is total uneconomic bs that was mentioned only to justify xai and spaceX merger.

If a launch costs $1,000 per kilogram, then the cost of energy is about $135 per megawatt-hour

this is only the launch cost premium over the actual equipment. For datacenters there is $200/mwh premium for the equipment. Beamed solar energy, I don’t recall costs, but generally requires a receiver antenna that takes the space of what terrestrial solar could generate.

At same time ruflo is the main SONA capability developper with ruvllm and ruvector. So this more ambitious layer may be a facade, but there is some core usefulness in their ecosystem.

Their energy estimates are way off. 240wh/4gb download is too high by 100x.

It’s not clear that there is a privacy argument. That address bar content is sent to google was always the case.

There is a bloatware argument especially if the only added functionality is form-fill which was done fairly satisfactorily without the 4gb download.

OTOH, gemini nano is now effectively open weight model if it, and it is likely a hack will permit user access to the bloat tax.

DAI added a 2nd coin, USDS, that is “regulatory compliant” = can be frozen.

worry about all the USDC collateral they use but at least it would be an all or nothing sort of thing for that to be frozen.

I think (not positive at all) holding another smart contract that pools fungible usdt/usdc cannot get blacklisted, including selling/transfering that contract for something other than usdt/usdc.

bitcoin layer 2 has a similar systems to LUSD/DAI

where are the content changes?