FloridaBoi

joined 5 years ago
[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It would be great if he kicked a soccer ball instead

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Can’t wait to see how he throws a baseball

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Eventually Joe Crab

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago

Ibarra is great track. It might be my favorite followed by Road Atlanta

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Cooking veggies preserves them and some can be frozen depending on the purpose. If you have meal plans for them make sure to get them within the correct freshness timeframe. Otherwise I think @dessa has good tips

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Brings a new meaning to X-biking

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

From a leadership perspective they will absolutely see that AIs can somewhat competently write emails and extrapolate that it can do so much more resulting in workers getting shafted with salaries and workloads.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s also true.

I was trying to remember how my boss said it in a meeting when he was salivating at the potential savings. It was a 2-for-1 deal where at least one technical expert role got eliminated. So in his mind the remaining employee supervises (or is supervised by) an AI that performs what they call the “non-value add” work like data aggregation, formatting, etc so that the person can focus on “analysis”.

Of course this is just their intention and flies in the face of reality once you begin losing institutional knowledge from layoffs and natural attrition and the technical debt starts accumulating so you need people to clean it up. In my experience they’ve preferred to outsource some of this shit work because it looks good to have lower payroll expense even if your operating expenses increase from paying contractors and consultants.

I still think that ultimately at the aggregate level there is a deskilling because the leftover people are no longer required to be SMEs per their department function and rather become AI supervisors with enough knowledge to troubleshoot problems. Like in finance you wouldn’t need CPAs to do accounting, you just need some staff accountants who themselves are being squeezed.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (12 children)

This is what I tell people at work. Bosses have been extremely honest about it. In their telling, we are “unlocking value” by being to replace a highly paid data scientist and a senior analyst with a single junior analyst. The whole point is to deskill the roles so they can pay fewer people less money. This is on top of the usual offshoring and outsourcing.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

One of my bosses cooked his brain on AI hype and slop. Every time I walked by his office for the last several months if he wasn’t in a meeting he was watching some AI slop training.

He once yelled at all of us for not making an AI video since it was the future.

He got laid off last month.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

While corporations especially Silicon Valley ones did fall in line, trump still seems sensitive to markets which appear to have forced him to back off from certain positions. So maybe it would be better to say markets instead of corporations would sway the admin.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is that the guy who explicitly said he’s not a leftist?

 

"You're talking about potentially going to a dark place. Do you --"

"We're there!"

 

Start an anti-tech company jihad

In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers.

US tech giants (and giant US companies that use tech) have used digital locks to amass a vast hoard of ill-gotten wealth. In 2026, the first country bold enough to raid that hoard gets to transform hundreds of billions in US rents into hundreds of millions in domestic profits that launch its domestic tech sector into a stable orbit—and the remaining hundreds of billions will be reaped by all of us, everyone in the world (including Americans who buy gray-market jailbreaking tools from abroad), as a consumer surplus.

 

Basically the cash burn rate for inference is much higher than reported and the media’s focus on training obfuscates it. All of the companies involved hide what the actual revenues are and if they even cover (or are trending towards covering) running costs of the models.

Ed Zitron with FT attempt to derive what those actual numbers are since they’re all over the place but cannot confirm hardly anything. It seems that at best revenues are 2/3 cash burn rate but are more like 1/2 and this is without considering the massive obligations that OpenAi is committing to.

 

The article gives no indication as to how the model works (other neural networks) so it could be a fluke especially since it is not physics based.

The arstechnica piece has this at the bottom:

“It’s not immediately clear why the GFS performed so poorly this hurricane season,” Lowry wrote. “Some have speculated the lapse in data collection from DOGE-related government cuts this year could have been a contributing factor, but presumably such a factor would have affected other global physics-based models as well, not just the American GFS.”

 
 

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“If the U.S. doesn’t transition to new energy vehicles quickly,” auto industry expert Michael Dunne of Dunne Insights told Newsweek last month. “Detroit will cede the global market and be reduced to a niche supplier of gas-powered pickup trucks and SUVs.”

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