Rotten_potato

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[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sounds very similar to the old Soviet pacemakers with radioisotope batteries. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, records about them got lost and so a bunch of people have been buried with pretty radioactive stuff in their chest. I don't think we (as developed societies) are going to take that risk for some phone batteries...

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Yes, I think so but only indirectly. Distinguishing between the "same" community on different instances or rather identifying the more active one is already pretty hard, the only thing one can really go by is the number of users who have joined. The large number of abandoned copycat communities on 3+ servers doesn't make this easier since a lot of these have a bunch of users but are dead.

A technical solution could be some kind of "hotness" score for instances to identify the interesting/active ones.

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It seems to me like this approach to custom-built ML hardware which can only be leased as a service, not bought outright (such as this or Google's TPUs), is not very promising for research. Sure, this might be a cost-effective way for companies to deploy LLMs and maybe AWS can squeeze out a few interesting papers but since nobody else can do this without paying Amazon obscene amounts of money I don't see this leading to the next great innovation in the field. It's at least interesting that Google's TPUs barely had an impact, I'm curious to see if this will also be true for Amazon.

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

You might be correct, they promise just way too much money. If it look too good (and this does, $100 for work thats at most one hour) it's just a scam.

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you for reading the source, the amount of FUD in this thread is crazy.

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easier explanation: She didn't post it, it's an obvious fake designed to put her in jail.

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy that people here immediately believe its her that posted this when the Jerusalem Post reports it. It's a random account in her name with a widely available picture, it not hers

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How is that relevant? Especially considering Reagan stopped the shelling of Beirut in 1982 and the Beirut barracks bombing happened in 1983?

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, but it's only consistent to reject that false framing and clearly delineate between supporters and opponents of Israel. Everything else just serves Israel by mudding the water.

[–] Rotten_potato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I happened upon two of these in much the same way, one of them unfortunately doesn't work but the other one has been my home office keyboard (too loud for the office) for many years. I've always wanted to fix the broken one by swapping in a modern controller, maybe even make it wireless (because that would be truly absurd).

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