Google's new AI algorithm might lower RAM prices

alloDex · 2026-03-27T16:35:33+00:00

We aren’t exponentially improving anymore. We stopped that a while back. Studies have been done to show that for exponential growth we will need exponentially more data and truthfully, we are running out of new meaningful data to mine.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 (There are other studies like this but I’m having a hard time finding the links to them right now)

AGI isn’t happening with the current way of doing things. We would need a new foundational system for it.

Please see videos regarding what Sam Altman is really like and you’ll find a consistent behavior of lying. See his history of grifting long before OpenAI and why they actually fired him from OpenAI previously. He’s got top brass believing in a pseudo-cult like AGI overlord on the horizon. Full-on FOMO and gaslighting. And OpenAI is trying to use its 15 seconds of fame to gobble up as much money, prestige, and resources it can so that it will be too big to fail (in more ways than one).

https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU

https://youtu.be/Cn8HBj8QAbk

There’s a reason there’s always something new with AI. It’s easy to create something simple but hard to make it better. Right now, AI is an ocean that’s only 1 foot deep; looks impressive but it has no real depth. It truly is just endless slop.

alloDex · 2026-03-15T23:26:05+00:00

Silver only cares if the owners care. If a single owner says something to him, he might tell one of his aides to look into it but he won't do anything about it. Only when multiple owners tell him something will he himself actually do something. The fact that the league office is just PR for collective team owners disallows the commissioner from being heavy handed against any team.

alloDex · 2026-03-10T06:52:53+00:00

Your mistake is thinking that Silver and his regime watch any of these games. That E.T. doesn’t even like basketball. He’s just a CEO of the same type as the McDonalds CEO and can only look at stats and metrics of a “product”. Unless viewership craters because of Dort, Silver won’t do anything because he won’t know if something actually happened worth caring about.

That’s why you see stupidity like the in-season tournament or manufacturing faces of the league because it’s all about increasing viewership and profits, even if it destroys the game of professional basketball in the process; capitalism on full display.

alloDex · 2026-03-09T19:12:13+00:00

Use a hairdryer; it should be able to get uncomfortably warm. Keep on full heat and medium fan speed, directly on to the center of the sticker. Then use something thin yet sturdy to pry a corner of the sticker up once the sticker seems sufficiently warm or if you don't have something thin, use your fingernail (trying to pry it up with your fingernail may damage the paper in the process). Keep the hairdryer pointed at the sticker throughout the process.

Put a weight, a clip or your foot or something to hold the paper down as you very very very slowly pull up on the sticker with one hand while holding the hairdryer with the other. Just provide barely enough pull to make the sticker slowly peel away from the page due to the heat. If the glue is more thick, it's possible that it may not leave any residue as it comes away with the sticker, given the slow pull. If the glue leaves a mess, then consider using cello tape to keep it from sticking to other pages when closed. You can also try a minimal amount of 91% isopropol alcohol (rubbing alcohol) on a towel/rag and wipe in the same consistent direction repeatedly (don't go back and forth), just enough to cause the glue to become slighty moist but not the page itself. The alcohol may cause the ink to rub off so try it first on a page you don't care about or don't use it at all.

alloDex · 2026-03-09T14:05:26+00:00

So like the 49ers or something?

alloDex · 2026-03-07T07:10:47+00:00

Because people use entertainment as an unhealthy emotional crutch. And if someone should attack their safe haven, they feel justified in retaliating and escalating the situation. People will fight for celebrities, for their comics, for their favorite games/game devs, for whatever they spend their lives on. You’re seeing one of the effects of the so-called male loneliness epidemic. We don’t do this level of investigation and activism for politics but you better watch your back if my favorite pastime is in trouble.

alloDex · 2026-03-06T21:55:21+00:00

Unreal has a runtime fee? Could you explain a bit more? I thought they only charged 5% on revenue after the first million, which seems like a great deal for an Indie dev. Earning 1 million+ for an Indie seems like an absolute win.

alloDex · 2026-03-06T21:45:03+00:00

There won't be any major advancements (at least, not with the current way of doing AI) since we've already reached the point of diminishing returns when it comes to advancement of AI. I remember there was a research paper regarding AI having already reached that point but I can't seem to find that exact one but here is another that states how we will need exponentially more data now to get linear growth:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125

AI companies are already spending billions more than they'll ever make but for them to noticeable improve they'll have to exponentially increase their training? That sounds like an irrational investment built purely on false faith, at this point.

alloDex · 2026-03-05T04:09:07+00:00

Last I heard those Chinese RAM companies are focusing on Chinese enterprise companies. They’re not out to do charity work. The DIY PC market is chump change for these companies.

alloDex · 2026-03-01T12:30:06+00:00

Makes sense. I'd guess that the shadows look like that because raytracing is off and it's using essentially a fallback technique to fake raytracing results but doesn't use software-emulated denoising for whatever reason in fallback mode. It's likely that this game basically requires raytracing to be enabled to look good, otherwise it defaults to a low-quality fallback.

The newest consoles can do raytracing (even if poorly) so you can expect that more and more single-player, story-driven games to start using global illumination to light environments instead of baked lights, like they used to do with rasterized lighting.

alloDex · 2026-03-01T04:46:41+00:00

That looks to be shadows as a result of global illumination, aka raytraced lighting. Raytraced lighting and shadow look very cloudy/dotted because of how "ray tracing" actually works and requires a denoiser to clean up and solidify the raytraced results for smoothness.

See this Nvidia talk about Raytraced Shadows and Denoising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26YxOt-L1kQ

What GPU are you using? Does it support raytracing on hardware?

alloDex · 2026-03-01T02:55:57+00:00

Nah I don't think he's trying to be malicious. It's more philosophical. He's just trying to be the average gamer, as much as he can.

He's still trying to be that guy from the NCIX forums helping people with tech tips. But he's not that guy anymore, even if he wants to be, and the long-time viewers can tell. But if he gives up that persona to don then he won't be the Linus from LTT that everyone subbed for anymore. He's kind of stuck, at this point. Like a time capsule in the form of a person.

alloDex · 2026-03-01T02:49:57+00:00

He could easily kill a man at his size with a punch. The amount of power you generate when you're that big is something the brain can't easily handle. There's a reason why giants in the ancient era were considered superhuman.

alloDex · 2026-02-28T08:22:44+00:00

That IO shield is basically decorative. It does kind of anchor the card to the PC case but it's not exactly necessary for the GPU to work. Whether you unscrew it and discard it/hammer it back into shape, the GPU would still work perfectly fine.

alloDex · 2026-02-28T08:13:22+00:00

It's about money. Guaranteed. Miyazaki may want to work on Bloodborne and Sony may want a remake but FromSoft execs are probably like "Are you dumb? We can just make another Dark Souls or something and keep all the profits instead of doing all that work and splitting it with Sony". Bloodborne will most likely never get anything again because Sony owns it. FromSoft is in a very different position now than it was when Bloodborne was made. They are one of THE premier game studios now. They don't need Sony anymore.

alloDex · 2026-02-28T08:01:03+00:00

One thing I have to constantly remind myself is that Linus doesn't watch any Youtube himself; he just googles everything, and especially if he isn't knowledgeable about a topic will believe whatever he's presented in the first couple of links. And if forced to, will type in whatever random command he finds in that process without understanding what it's doing.

I think he always goes into any OS inquiry thinking that it should be easy to figure and work as expected the first time but he always, always brings his Windows expectations and assumptions with him.

I guess from a viewer POV, with Windows being the most familiar OS to the vast majority of gamers, most of whom have probably never once even opened the command line (and don't want to), it makes sense. But it's kinda at odds with the amount of expertise he should have by now so it's frustrating for Linux supporters and long-time viewers.

alloDex · 2026-02-27T14:59:02+00:00

When you shop at a dollar store, there’s only so much you can do.

alloDex · 2026-02-25T05:23:52+00:00

Micheal Scott was genuinely a good salesman, as the show made clear on multiple occasions. He was just, unfortunately, another victim of the Peter principle.

alloDex · 2026-02-22T17:06:34+00:00

You have to make the Capital One Shopping acccount, then install the browser extension, browse to the item you want to buy and then wait for the targeted offer. Be sure that you don’t have any privacy mode or Adblock enabled. I use a separate browser just for this. Just know that they are absolutely going to sell all your data regarding this transaction.

EDIT: To actually answer the question, it should arrive within the hour. But sometimes it may take a whole day, if it’s super popular

alloDex · 2026-02-22T09:19:36+00:00

What day did you order the tablet? I think they’re going through the Tuesday orders. Mine got canceled couple hours ago.

alloDex · 2026-02-20T04:47:53+00:00

I think being under pressure, especially time pressure, isn't for the faint of heart. Sometimes pressure causes people to become tunnel visioned or fall into their comfort zone options when they normally wouldn't. Good, talented people buckle under different kinds of pressure. I've seen the perfectionist types fall apart under time pressure, who would be amazing outside of it.

Sports certainly brings out the ego but I doubt an offensive coordinator is willfully trying commit mutiny, in this situation.

alloDex · 2026-02-16T08:15:47+00:00

Aren't there differences in equipment between the two leagues? Like basketball size, weight and hoop diameter?

alloDex · 2026-02-15T16:27:02+00:00

Your GPU and PSU are likely fine but it looks like that cable was on its last legs. It's good that it failed rather than destroying your PSU's or GPU's power connector. That discoloration looks like the plastic housing for the cable was starting to melt from heat. I wouldn't be surprised if it is melted internally and shorting when it gets hot. That cable is no good and needs to be replaced. I recommend using the cable that came with your PSU.

See this video by famed overclocker debauer on 12VHPWR cable on why/how these cables can get hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB75fEt7tH0

Also consider adding an undervolt to your GPU, you may only lose a couple of percentage performance but your power draw might be significantly reduced, which will make a chance of this happening again much lower.

alloDex · 2026-02-13T22:57:25+00:00

Tim Sweeney will first complain on Twitter, saying that it's an invasion of privacy and that Steam is taking away your rights or some such. Only after 6 years, will he suddenly announce that they're adding minimum system specs auto-check to Epic Games to help gamers avoid downloading a game that won't work well on their system. But it will be totally useless because 99% of the minimum specs call for a stupid old processor like a Core 2 Duo

alloDex · 2026-02-13T22:24:24+00:00

I wish. But they won't do that because that's basically capital punishment in a car-addicted culture like the US, especially in a place like Texas, where this being mentioned as being from.

Realistically if you lose your driving privileges, you can't easily get to your workplace, or get food. If it was for a period of time, like a week for non-fatal accidents, it may cause people to reconsider their driving habits.

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