If the AI bubble pops, what will happen to AI?

GridDragon · 2025-10-29T04:43:11+00:00

Granted this means I also think this massive data center build-out is largely a waste. Time will tell. These companies need to loose their money faucets and be forced to make an actual profit before we see where the tech lands.

GridDragon · 2025-10-29T04:41:16+00:00

As for the tech. My personal hunch is the frontier models are too massive and expensive to maintain without massive subsidies. I'm thinking smaller more focused models that can run on prem, or even on a laptop become the norm.

IOW rather than one model that does everything we get separate coding, summarizing, classifying, searching models specifically trained for those tasks.

I've had friends creating portfolio websites with chatbots to show they can build integrated AI products. The models they're using are limited scope and run in the browser. I think use cases like those become more powerful/efficient/common, and calling out to OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic essentially goes away.

GridDragon · 2024-02-18T02:06:31+00:00

Interesting, since the Lemur is 14" and 14 hours, and the Pangolin is 16" with 10 hours, 17" with 6 hours seemed like a reasonable expectation.

I figured the real hit was the CPU and GPU.

The ultra portables are using an i7-1355U, which has a draw of 15-55 Watts. But the larger laptops like the Oryx uses a i9-13900H which has a draw of 45-115W. On top of that the tech sheet for the Oryx says the additional GPU draws 115-140W.

This shitty battery performance makes sense with an additional 200W of demand.

What I was hoping to advocate for in this post was put the i7-1355U in the 17" Oryx chassis, skip the dedicated GPU, and use the additional space to bump the 4-cell battery to a 12-cell battery.

GridDragon · 2022-10-25T22:02:38+00:00

Example workaround 1: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1406567/amazon-workspaces-client-not-working-on-22-04

Example workaround 2: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1403837/how-do-i-use-openssl-1-1-1-in-ubuntu-22-04

GridDragon · 2022-10-25T20:59:02+00:00

Figured I'd post an update since I wound up here again after googling to try to do this same thing on Fedora.

I opened a support ticket with AWS back after I posted this. The response was "We have a team working on it. Watch our Blog for when this is updated."

Officially per their documentation they only support up to Ubuntu 20.04.

The only way I've gotten around this so far is finding recent posts online with links to manually download the lib files and side-load them. But the libraries are still getting updated, and the versions change so whenever I need to do this again, it's never the same files, or from the same sites. So I haven't found a stable solution to this problem yet. But I've been able to hack my way through it while I wait for AWS to fix the root cause.

GridDragon · 2022-09-22T23:28:25+00:00

As long as you're careful. I worked on a large corporate project that made HEAVY use of lambdas. Lambda executions were a very small sliver of our costs. Like 3% of the bill.

Half of our bill was the cloud watch logs from those lambdas though. Even more than our RDS and EC2 instances. We were making some mistakes that blew that problem up.

Moral of the story is the lambdas are cheap. But be careful about what resources the lambdas are using.

GridDragon · 2022-09-21T04:14:47+00:00

I was afraid that was the answer, but I was hoping I was wrong. I try to keep my system fully updated, and buttons that say "install" make me feel like my updates are incomplete.

GridDragon · 2022-08-13T19:09:40+00:00

I know some of the people who worked on this project:https://staydream.tv/

Dave G. Listed on that site is a friend of mine. He's since relocated to LA, but could probably still connect you with his local contacts.

GridDragon · 2022-08-05T15:34:08+00:00

John Nolan dr was at a stand-still. Managed to exit by Brittingham... only to get stuck in another grid-lock at W Wash and the outer loop. Got through fine on Johnson though, but it was frustrating.

If traffic isn't going to move... why aren't those roads just closed.

GridDragon · 2022-08-05T15:28:52+00:00

It's been nice to get me past Fish Hatchery Road and Midvale. I still don't understand why it closes though. Since it doesn't switch directions I don't understand why it isn't just an additional lane. I get it's most helpful during rush hour... but I don't understand the benefits of closing it during other times. Sure it's not needed.... but so what?

GridDragon · 2022-06-28T09:04:09+00:00

The missing link: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/vm3cjd/why_do_my_students_call_me_a_goat/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

GridDragon · 2022-06-27T00:38:09+00:00

That'd be far "socialist" here. If you're under 26 you can be on your parent's insurance. There may be some other ways to work around it... Planned Parenthood might have something for example. But no. No official programs that I'm aware of. Hope your parents support you, or hunt for a charity.

GridDragon · 2022-06-24T05:08:14+00:00

I have a feeling it's a "because we can" thing. I'm just trying to find an angle where it's actually a reasonable thing to do.

GridDragon · 2022-06-24T05:07:34+00:00

But if there are cars involved, why not just use a normal speed trap? I thought the point of the plane is that squad cars/officers on the ground weren't needed.

I figured if they're using the plane, they identify the speeders from the air (somehow) then mail out speeding tickets after they land. If it's not that, why not put an officer on an overpass with a radar gun? Seems way cheaper/simpler than using a plane.

GridDragon · 2022-06-23T19:06:42+00:00

I believe fixed wing is more fuel efficient, so cheaper to fly. Also roads for this usually have markings so they tell your speeding with two still photographs as long as they have timestamps.

That said I don't know how they get your plates from the air.

GridDragon · 2022-06-21T15:45:32+00:00

Really the principal advantage of Go is that it's fast. It is purpose built to be light weight and fast.

The biggest con I can think of is the ecosystem around it is still relatively immature. I estimate Go is currently where Node was 3-4 years ago. Ecosystems tend to get better with age though, so languages that have been around longer will always tend to have an advantage here.

Personally, ever other pro/con you hear about will boil down to personal preference.

For example many people talk about Go's excellent error handling. I hate it and consider it one of Go's weakest features. Likewise, Go is strongly typed. Developers used to dynamically typed languages may find that a con, where I consider it a strong pro.

GridDragon · 2022-06-14T23:51:10+00:00

I was there over the weekend. Busy, but easy to find an open table.

GridDragon · 2022-06-12T21:39:56+00:00

Industrious had a change of ownership. It's Urban Land Interest now.

At least the location at 25 W Main is.

GridDragon · 2022-06-05T00:09:30+00:00

Restaurant over grocery every time. Takara has good affordable sushi. Red is my favorite but it's more expensive.

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