They do get released. I need a source of high quality rips for the NAS to stream from.

Still no blu ray last time I checked.

Ok, if you don’t use their web site you won’t see the UX dark patterns. Trust us, they there and fit with the overall garbagefication theme. Annoys the living shit out of me. At least no more Prime Video UI and ad trainwreck.

If you haven’t noticed, you’ve been not paying attention. I canceled Prime a while ago and they try very hard to get you back. And they try to sneak on you billed expedited shipping when over minimum gratis shipping quota. Dark patterns galore.

It would be a major pain for me to boycott them completely so I don’t, yet.

You seem to trust Nvidia. I don’t.

I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.

Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.

Sadly, you can’t download the hardware to run models that size.

There are diminishing returns in semiconductor photolitho. Moore scaling is long over, absolute real estate see WSI with Cerebras, DC costs and power envelope are all sending a clear message. Quantization is there, so you can go from digital multipliers to analog and go spiking networks, but transformers and Co have little power there.

Also, the kind of economy that can carry Gen AI as business model is not a given, long term.

https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/data.html

Make sure you have spare 1400 terabytes.

Potentially double use for space launches.

360 km or 194 nautic miles is the inter-port distance.

Nah. He’s that Youtube dude.

Gen AI is a net negative for the moment, since the deluge of generated low-quality content outweighs convenience of topical results generated by LLMs with natural language queries.

Things definitely changed. 15-20 years ago you actually got good search results instead of unusable crap we get today.

Question is also whether antichinese sanctions are contributing.

I use video projectors. Many of them, typically the better ones do not have any built-in smarts requiring an Internet connection.

In general, smart devices are a major security risk, and need to be firewalled off.

Full human equivalent across all capabilities. Gen AI fails pretty much everywhere.

There is no real AI out there, yet.

There is no reliable risk assessment for truly intelligent, autonomous systems. Let’s stop pretending that it can exist.