I know someone who was allergic to onion and garlic. Their food choices made me sad, but yeah, go get checked for food allergies if you can. That not being weird enough, lymphatic cancer cured them of the allergy.

Christmas light arch using pvc pipe.

Fascism doesn’t allow corporate push back. Fascists adopt whatever they think will get populist support then force it into the market. They dont care about real action, only the appearance of action, which pleases their populist voters. Which is why rolling over to stupid shit like removing “DEI” verbiage is the smart choice in the short and long run for any business.

Pushing back when the business doesn’t have support only makes their image worse. Costco is the exception and not the rule.

I would 100% support my daughters if they punched someone over this. I’m very passive generally, but I would burn the earth these abusers stand on because of my own life experiences. I’d struggle not to overstep my kids’ wishes.

Fair enough. I personally shop at costco and winco primarily. Target is the “large retailer” compromise I make over Walmart or Kroger. The massive focus on target is so confusing when their competitors are 10x worse.

I think it’s more complicated than that. Large companies always hedge their bets. In this case publicly appearing to bend just gets this stupid administration to shut up about whatever culture war they are currently waging. They never actually check if said company is actually doing anything besides removing the term “dei” in this case. Then, in a few years if our government swings back to the direction that matches public polling sentiment. They can release data about diversity again, which will be good PR.

It’s always been strange to me that anyone would expect a massive retailer to stand up to fascists. Costco is a rare exception and they only are doing it because it made them money and will continue to make money. None of these decisions are about doing what is right. Instead, it’s all about profits.

It’s more they became the most pushed one and you fell for it. Large companies restructure constantly and they made the smart move to hide their diversity policy from the current administration. They still have diversity goals, they just don’t share them with the public.

My company did the same thing. Removed the DEI term but left everything else in place. You fell for their corporate renaming strategy.

The BPA one is even funnier because it is used very often to coat metal food preservation containers. But thank jeebus we threw out all of those polycarbonate water bottles that contain basically zero BPA. Keep enjoying that canned chili though.

Dry beans need to be pressure cooked for the best results. An instant pot can do it if you want the simple appliance. Google the settings for the beans you want to cook. They come out better than anything you can buy at the store, but results can depend on your experience.

Having had a team in India grafted on to help me with a project. AI would’ve been an equally useless time suck.

BLS is garbage data now. Biden’s presidency, it was close to accurate. Now it’s just propaganda, with no basis in reality.

This is always a hard conversation to have. There are drivers on the road who want everyone to be safe, and do their best to function in our bad infrastructure. I try to be one of them, partially because I commuted on a bike and public transit for a long time. I did miss the sign in this instance, it was one of those “when present” signs that doesn’t have lights.

Personally I want more fines for actually dangerous driving. Its hard to quantify how much dumb shit I’ve seen while driving as much as I do. Watching TV while driving should be straight to the drunk tank and yet i see it every day.

Fair enough. I’d be fine being wrong.

Improved efficiency would reduce the catastrophic energy demands LLMs will have in the future. Assuming your reality comes true it would help reduce their environmental impact.

We’ll see. This isn’t first “it’s the future” technology I’ve seen and I’m barely 40.

I’ll take a step back. These LLM models are interesting. They are being trained in interesting new ways. They are becoming more ‘accurate’, I guess. ‘Accuracy’ is very subjective and can be manipulated.

Machine learning is still the same though.

LLMs still will never expand beyond their inputs.

My point is it’s not early anymore. We are near or past the peak of LLM development. The extreme amount of resources being thrown at it is the sign that we are near the end.

That sub should not be used to justify anything, just like any subreddit at any point in time.

It’s not easy to solve because its not possible to solve. ML has been around since before computers, it’s not magically going to get efficient. The models are already optimized.

Revenue isn’t profit. These companies are the biggest cost sinks ever.

Heating a single building is a joke marketing tactic compared to the actual energy impact these LLM energy sinks have.

I’m an automation engineer, LLMs suck at anything cutting edge. Its basically a mainstream knowledge reproducer with no original outputs. Meaning it can’t do anything that isnt already done.

None of this is true.

I’ve worked on data centers monitoring power consumption, we need to stop calling LLM power sinks the same thing as data centers. Its basically whitewashing the power sucking environmental disasters that they are.

Machine learning is what you are describing. LLMs being puppeted as AI is destructive marketing and nothing more.

LLMs are somewhat useful at dumb tasks and they do a pretty dumb job at it. They feel like when I was new at my job and for decades could produce mediocre bullshit, but I was too naive to know it sucked. You can’t see how much they suck yet because you lack experience in the areas you use them in.

Your two cost saving points are pulled from nowhere just like how LLM inference works.

The current machine learning models (AI for the stupid) rely on input data, which is running out.

Processing power per watt is stagnating. Moors law hasn’t been true for years.

Who will pay for these services? The dot com bubble destroyed everyone who invested in it. Those that “survived” sprouted off of the corpse of that recession. LLMs will probably survive, but not in the way you assume.

Nvidia helping openAI survive is a sign that the bubble is here and ready to blow.

When AI is actually invented I’ll call it AI. Right now we have a steroid juiced parrot that’s based on old school machine learning. Its great at summarizing simple data, but terrible at real tasks.

This is more people who aren’t dumb telling the marketing teams to stop hyping something that doesn’t exist. The dot com boom is echoing. The profit will never materialize.

Canada? You really think you are somehow safe from this shit huh.

I made this point in another comment, but these cameras send you bills instead of tickets. They ignore our right to a fair trial and subvert our right to confront our accuser. The only one I’ve received had no info on how to dispute it, just pay or fuck you type of bill.

A red light camera is no different than a speeding camera in this regard.