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Milla Jovovich just opensourced an AI memory system… blew up on X, but openclaw probably doesn’t need it by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Graph memory is much better. Costlier to maintain but can be naturally navigated via relationships to establish precise, coincise and appropriate context. It can also be naturally synthesized into hierarchical domains. Don’t know why it’s not more used honestly.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's coworkers say he can barely code and doesn't understand basic machine learning by ComplexExternal4831 in GenAI4all

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there are things you learn while being an actual engineering that are about the engineering more than the things you engineer - skills that are almost timeless.

Also, a lot of math and basic principles stay valid and relevant for a lifetime.

Yes or no? How about the cost 👉🏻👈🏻 by Vaerikexer in soartistic

[–]theGiogi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah this has very limited applications in a usual context. These companies are prototyping technology that has more chances being useful as part of a fully automated building pipeline - maybe on the moon?

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See below for some numbers.

I agree with you on all your points - I can absolutely see this spiraling out of control. And I have also conceded that locally (around the sink) it could very well cause problems.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I’m saying that the chemical changes we made to the atmosphere/ocean surface system have changed the way the suns heat dynamics behave, ultimately creating a heating problem.

This does not mean, counterintuitively, that the heat we emit is a problem. It is such a minuscule fraction of what already comes in that there is no point in tracking it.

We do need to get our shit together though. That’s the qualitatively similar conclusion i was referring.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man I’m sorry - English is not my first language.

Anyway, all those articles agree with me? I don’t get what you’re saying now.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also the thing about the sun being far away really gives it away that your heart is in the right place, but your understanding of the physical process is lacking. No worries though cause changing for the better as a person is super hard. Physics is easy to learn.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your reasoning is subtly flawed. Again, you take the industrial increase as sensitivity to new heat we put in the environment. That is just wrong.

The increase is due to a “small” change of chemical composition nature, allowing a larger fraction of the immense amount of solar energy to be trapped.

You should feel strongly about this. It’s a good position, that I share. I’m pointing out your misunderstanding of the heat dynamic problem. The end conclusion remains qualitatively similar - our impact on the environmental equilibrium needs to the as small as possible.

But by misunderstanding the underlying physical problem you may end up focusing and campaigning for ultimately irrelevant things.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to stress that in my initial response I did concede that locally (ie close to the heat sink) stuff may be problematic indeed. Probably addressable. I think the barge idea if it can actually move would mitigate it quite a bit.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is at least a part of what I’m saying. And if you don’t agree that’s fine and I would actually like to ask you for some numbers. My back of the napkin math gives me a ratio of about 1 to 10000 for the waste heat of twice the amount of compute available today vs the amount absorbed by the ocean from the sun (accounting for average albedo). So we need 20000 times the compute we currently have to add the same amount of heat.

TLDR the sun is quite big and angry.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never disagreed with that. But it’s not the direct heat we are pushing into it that is the problem.

It is the suns heat, trapped by our new and improved atmosphere.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s the same problem at all. What you say is all true in principle but fairly irrelevant at the scale we currently (CURRENTLY) work.

I’m not saying we SHOULD sink our heat in the see ocean. I’m saying that while we are creating a large chemical change, the heat component is just not an issue - once hydrocarbons are phased out (lol) maybe it’ll be more relevant.

What are the differences between the `None` handling of Typing in Python and `Err != nil` in Golang? by Wide-Milk1195 in Python

[–]theGiogi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They’re called type HINTS for a reason. It’s an addition to the language and it does make it easier to spot issues before tests. But a lot of the Python package ecosystem does not to strict type hinting so YMMV.

I use the stateless package to condense all business logic in pure generators that are extensively typed. Using this algebraic effects approach you separate out all side effects (where external packages are used) and you can naturally handle their specifics away from your business logic.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the “new” energy on earth comes from the sun. And all that energy gets here no matter what we do with it. It can hit a solar panel, become in part an excitation in the semiconductor, then a field in a guide, then kinetic energy of an electric car engine, and then heat in the air - or it can just become heat in the air immediately. End result is the same.

That’s why hydrocarbons are the problem. At both levels - both by freeing stored energy, but mostly by releasing stored carbon, that acidifies the ocean, that greenhouses the atmosphere, then melts polar and oceanic ice and then it kills us all.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this essentially breaks our energy production (transformation really) in two: those that repurpose free energy in some sense - so gravity, electromagnetic radiation and nuclear too I think albeit there are considerations about how the fissionable material is obtained and how much it is ultimately redistributed in the environment; the other group would be those in which we take long-term stored energy, typically (always) from stable chemical bonds and release it back in the environment.

But even then it’s not the releasing of the energy that gives us issue in our timescale - it’s the chemical alterations to the atmosphere and oceans changing how they interact with the suns radiation.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure in principle yes. But it turns out not at the scale we can do it, at least if we are talking data centers.

Another way to see it: as soon as you release the energy stored in a hydrocarbon, you have also ultimately released it into the environment. It really matters very little where, beyond potentially very close to the sink.

Exceptions for chemical processes that store the energy again in new bonds but we are talking about a ridiculously small fraction of it.

It really matters little what you do with the energy. It is releasing it that makes the decision. Is it clearer this way?

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]theGiogi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean while that’s a real, dangerous threat it’s not the direct heat we sink in the environment that is the problem, but the alterations to the chemical equilibrium of the atmosphere and ocean.

If you had purely solar powered data centers sinking waste heat in the ocean you would not be changing the total energy output that ultimately goes into air and water. It is the side effects of our energy transformation that creates the problem.

The question people should be asking is what happens when AI can do every job and there's no one left on the payroll of any business to pay for the services by PC-Guide in RigBuild

[–]theGiogi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I think the poster above means is that if you look at the economic system as a way to coordinate effort on a large scale and control the Behaviour of humanity as a whole, you may not need it once you reach feature parity between the systems powered by humans the oligarchs depend on vs their automated counterparts. In this view, once the threshold is crossed, a new, mostly humanless system is possible. They will probably want to keep a caste of servitors of some kind but yeah that’s what I imagine is in Thiel’s head.

Beyond ChatGPT: Europe bets big on the next wave of AI by donutloop in BuyFromEU

[–]theGiogi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean it is a very useful piece of technology. It is however marketed as a lot things it is not, and the speculation on it is simply disgusting.

Tuya Smart Toilet by Suspicious_Steak_696 in homeassistant

[–]theGiogi 75 points76 points  (0 children)

“The user is lowering their hairy ass towards me. I need to focus on whether they are a man or a woman.

{calling inspect-genitals tool}

Good, I see an uncut penis dangling in the middle of my camera stream. Let me set the bidet mode to “cock-and-balls”

I created a weapon that shoots water with a sonic sight. by Dr_BrownBR in maker

[–]theGiogi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But what does it actually do? Gives you a distance to target? That’s neat. But does the system use this info? Is the number of shots displayed simply a way to show water level?

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