Mastodawn

Everyone hates army stories, but during my conscription service a pal of mine ripped his pants when jumping off a truck, resulting in this legendary exchange:

Private NNN: "Oh my god, I have a hole in my butt!"
Team leader: "Don't we all? Get back to work!"

robbystk 1d ago

Ketan Joshi 3d ago

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

robbystk Mar 7

Su-Shee Mar 7

this is an interesting article about LLM generated code (an sqlite rewrite in rust) and the difference between "it works" and "it's good". also interesting database stuff :)

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.

One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:

Vagabond Research

robbystk Mar 6

Mr Takes 🧄Mar 5

Necromancer failed to make a skeleton friend, had a

decryption failure

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robbystk Mar 4

@j2kun I'm guessing there's lots more tutorials than CRDT uses?

robbystk Mar 4

This piece is a good, nuanced perspective on LLMs and generative "AI" with lots of little tidbits of wisdom scattered throughout.

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/

You don't have to if you don't want to.

"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it's never been easier to tell the world "I didn't care about this and I don't care about you."

Scott Smitelli

robbystk Feb 28