๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘ Oh, they "upgraded" and costs "magically" plummeted by making an expensive #LLM useless 80% of the time! ๐ŸŽฉ๐Ÿ”ฎ 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. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ”ง
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.

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

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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Kentโ€™s meningitis outbreak was years in the making โ€“ hereโ€™s why

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

The Conversation

@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

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 ๐Ÿฅš into one wobbly basket ๐Ÿงบ? Don't worry, thoughโ€”query prices are down by 94%, so you'll save a fortune as you wait for it to fail! ๐Ÿ˜‚
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.

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 mileโ€”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 TCDโ€™s Solar Explorer, can maximize these savingsโ€”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

Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige)

Google AI Studio์˜ Batch APIs๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด Gemini, ์ž„๋ฒ ๋”ฉ ๋ชจ๋ธ, @NanoBanana ๋“ฑ GoogleAIStudio ๋ชจ๋ธ๋กœ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์žก์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์•ฝ 50% ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์•ˆ๋‚ด. ์ž‘์„ฑ์ž๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹คํ—˜์ด 2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ ์ž‘์—…ยท๋น„์šฉ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž ๋„๊ตฌ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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

#googleai #batchapi #gemini #embeddings #costsavings

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige) on X

๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ 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. ๐Ÿ’ธ All my experiments have taken <2 hours!

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