Mastodawn

🎉👏 Oh, they "upgraded" and costs "magically" plummeted by making an expensive #LLM useless 80% of the time! 🎩🔮 It's like bragging about saving money on a sports car you never drive, but hey, at least their blog post increased their "successful" failure rate analysis. 🙄🔧
https://www.mendral.com/blog/frontier-model-lower-costs #HackerNews #Upgrade #CostSavings #BlogPost #FailAnalysis #HackerNews #ngated

We Upgraded to a Frontier Model and Our Costs Went Down

We switched to a frontier model and our costs went down. Here's the architecture that made it possible.

Weichei Apr 15

Pflichttraining #workforcemanagement
Und wie immer Frage ich mich, wo ist der #mensch in dieser Betrachtung.
Ich lese nur #resource #costsavings #effective ...

Global News Okanagan Mar 30

B.C. union calls on province to allow employees to work from home due to fuel crisis
The B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU) says that in order to help conserve fuel and save on the cost of gas, employees, where possible, should get to work from home.
#Economy #Politics #BCGEU #WorkFromHome
https://globalnews.ca/news/11751723/bc-union-province-allow-employees-to-work-from-home-fuel-crisis/

CBC New Brunswick Mar 28

New teams at Horizon try to divert patients away from unneeded hospital admissions
Horizon Health Network says it may have found a way to prevent 600 hospital admissions per year and save $8.6 million.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/horizon-diversion-teams-9.7140576?cmp=rss

Hacker News Mar 26

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai

#HackerNews #AI #Development #JSONata #TechInnovation #CostSavings

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

One engineer used AI to rewrite JSONata as a pure-Go library called gnata. Seven hours, $400 in tokens, 1,000x speedup, and $500K/year off our cloud bill.

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Mark Mar 21

Every student at #university today was born before July 2015, meaning every one of them missed the cut-off.

The #NHS [NICE?] never offered them the jab and NO catch-up programme was ever provided. A decade of students has passed through higher education with no routine protection against the most common form of bacterial meningitis.

https://theconversation.com/kents-meningitis-outbreak-was-years-in-the-making-heres-why-278003?utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#CutsKill #healthcare #CostSavings #FalseEconomy

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Kent’s meningitis outbreak was years in the making – here’s why

A vaccine has existed since 2013. The UK was first to adopt it. But a decade of students never received it – and are now paying the price.

The Conversation

Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Feb 27

@tinyoakland, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.

I built a shower in my backyard. This shower has a 16-inch rainfall shower head, with unlimited hot water. The tankless water heater is powered by propane and a very small amount of electricity.

#blackcreatives #sustainability #environmentalism #costsavings #blackmastodon

N-gated Hacker News Feb 24

Ah yes, the ancient art of replacing a sophisticated sharded job queue with a single, elegant JSON file on object storage. Because why not put all your distributed eggs 🥚 into one wobbly basket 🧺? Don't worry, though—query prices are down by 94%, so you'll save a fortune as you wait for it to fail! 😂
https://turbopuffer.com/blog/object-storage-queue #shardedJobQueue #JSONStorage #distributedSystems #costSavings #techHumor #systemDesign #HackerNews #ngated

How to build a distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage

How to build a single global queue for distributed systems on object storage: Start with a single file on object storage, then add write batching, a stateless broker, and high-availability.

Eric Darnley Small Feb 18

A new study by Veloz highlights the huge savings of EVs over gas-powered cars, with charging at home costing just $12.86 for a full battery and fueling at about 5 cents per mile—less than half the cost of an internal combustion engine (12 cents per mile). Heavy users can recoup their purchase within two years, enjoying lower operating costs long-term. Installing a Level 2 charger, especially when paired with solar panels via trusted providers like Qmerit and TCD’s Solar Explorer, can maximize these savings—potentially saving up to $10,000. Ready to switch to a cheaper, cleaner ride? Learn about the benefits here: https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/study-reveals-shocking-cost-differences-073500488.html #ElectricVehicles #EVSavings #GoGreen #Solar #ClimateAction #CostSavings

New study reveals shocking cost differences of owning an EV versus a gas car in the US: 'The conclusion is consistent'

"The comparison is one of the great debates in the transportation sector."

Yahoo

sayzard Feb 10

Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige)

Google AI Studio의 Batch APIs를 사용하면 Gemini, 임베딩 모델, @NanoBanana 등 GoogleAIStudio 모델로 대규모 잡을 실행하면서 비용을 약 50% 절감할 수 있다는 안내. 작성자는 모든 실험이 2시간 미만으로 완료되었다고 전하며, 대규모 배치 작업·비용 최적화 관점에서 유용한 개발자 도구 업데이트를 소개합니다.

https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/2021308422965375196

#googleai #batchapi #gemini #embeddings #costsavings

👩‍💻 Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige) on X

📽️ Now with a shiny new video! If you've ever wanted to run jobs at scale using the @GoogleAIStudio models (including Gemini, the Embeddings models, and @NanoBanana!), the Batch APIs are a great way to save ~50% of your costs. 💸 All my experiments have taken <2 hours!

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