Some people posted video of “unknown light in the sky” a few times, which happens regularly, but somehow it caught enough attention that everyone started looking at the sky.

It turns out that many people do not recognize a plane, or Venus, or a SpaceX launch, or a Chinese lantern, or whatever because now they’ve been led to expect to see something mysterious.

Debunker Mick West posted on YouTube showing how one famous video actually showed lights on a hillside, by lining up the image with Google Street view.

A few sightings do seem unusual, but many are just flashing lights moving over cities that happen to have busy airports.

Before even getting to documentation, I see so many projects that don’t have a short summary of what they do (and maybe what to not expect them to do).

As an example, Home Assistant. I can tell that it involves home automation, so can I replace Google Home with it? It seems like it doesn’t do voice recognition without add-ons and it can work with Google Assistant. Do I still need accounts with the providers of smart appliances, or can it control my bulbs directly?

None of that is very clear from the website.

I’ve seen plenty of other projects where it’s assumed there’s no need to explain it’s overall purpose.

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• “Avocado?”
• “Don’t mind if I do!”

“Mee-out! Mee-out!”

Pylon appreciation

https://pylons.org/

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

https://www.horg.com/horg

Pathetic motorways

https://pathetic.org.uk/

I have one of the earliest mp3 players, with a 32Mb expansion memory card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

And going back further: a Sharp PC1211 BASIC-programmable pocket computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1211

That was covered pretty well already!

Or maybe it’s using Fluidic logic.

It’s on the list somewhere I think

https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

Well that’s of the same order of magnitude as the quoted figure. I was suggesting that it sounded vastly larger than it should be.

It’s true, I don’t know how large the models are that are being accessed in data centers. Although if the article’s estimate is correct, it’s sad that such excessively-demanding models are always being used for use-cases that could often be handled with much lower power usage.

140Wh seems off.

It’s possible to run an LLM on a moderately-powered gaming PC (even a Steam Deck).

Those consume power in the range of a few hundred watts and they can generate replies in a seconds, or maybe a minute or so. Power use throttles down when not actually working.

That means a home pc could generate dozens of email-sized texts an hour using a few hundred watt-hours.

I think that the article is missing some factor, such as how many parallel users the racks they’re discussing can support.

You thinking of Apple headsets. These are budget things, maybe $300.

Get a move on! It could be yards away by now.

He decided that it was unethical to have an AI/LLM impersonate a real person, but set up the “wizard” as an AI assistant for his fake crypto site helpline.

Can “y’all” be singular, since there is “all y’all” for plural?

Well, I hope this thread has also put you off being a pedestrian.

Part of the problem is that if you get a green light, so can go ahead or turn right, the road to your right has a “walk” sign on at the same time. So pedestrians can start crossing. In the UK a walk-sign equivalent means that “the traffic has stopped so that you can cross”.

True. But I’d sum it up as “A roundabout is a group of T-junctions. A 4-way stop is a nightmarish hellscape that relies on people paying attention and being reasonable.” A 4-way stop near a school at drop-off time is basically Mad Max. Kids crossing at each corner holding up the vehicle that should be next, people splitting into two lanes so that they can turn right out-of-turn, buses obscuring the view, people who decided that “surely it’s my turn now”…

I noticed! That’s why my reply became a semi-crazed random stream of consciousness.