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“AI Developers Are Buying Gaming GPUs in Bulk”

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/here-we-go-again-ai-de...

Retail gaming GPUs are available and they’re MUCH cheaper than cloud GPU.

It’s happening now.

AI software needs to make a choice too, does it only run in Nvidia, or does it make itself compatible with the mass market.

For 50 years software developers have chosen to make their software work on cheap mass market devices.
The syntax is restricted so the toml content can be extracted without actually parsing the Python file, a regex is enough.
On the other hand - I've had a Hive thermostat for the last 5 years and it works flawlessly. Every time I start it from the app it works. Use it with a combi boiler here in UK and it works absolutely fine. I only have that one device from them so I can't comment on anything other than heating.
> except it's free because I got $5,000 in credits from AWS Activate

Free credits are the ingenious marketing ploy of all big clouds to delay price comparisons until some amount of lock-in is achieved. Sure, you could likely host it for 1/10th to 1/5th of the cost elsewhere. But then you would have to pay from the get-go, and on AWS it's free™ (until it isn't)
I think it's the opposite. At least external validation gives you a real-world indicator of how close to success you are.
Well thank you for making me bust out laughing at work.
I'd realy like to se a post mortem about how that happened. I'd expect that all commands would be validated in a simulator with checks that mission parameters are not violated.
Today BigDecimal (arbitrary precision) should be the easy to use default and float the annoying to invoke exception. But it’s understandable why the designers wouldn’t have done that in the 90s.
Hi everyone,

I just wrote a little python program that aims at playing music with mpv and yt-dlp, by first querying a tagged Notion musical database.

This was first intended for my own use since I store music that I like to listen to in the form of links within a Notion database (convenient because of the "Save to Notion" web extension). Realized this could help other people to make similar stuff so here you go.

Hope you enjoy :)

Antoine
I think the reason for being so specific about using tripple quoted strings is that this stuff needs to be parsed out without running it through the interpreter. e.g. pip needs to be able to fish out the pyproject.toml data to install dependencies before running the script is even going to work.

It's just lightening the load on developers by making the parsing simpler.
Usually on a Friday afternoon/early evening while other non-Science/Engineering types are out having something called a Social Life ...
Hm, but diamagnetism in itself doesn't mean that it's a superconductor, no? There are a few diamagnetic materials that aren't superconductors, AFAIK.
Further to all this I must assure you that all of the above is not some attempt at sophistry or trying to score internet points: what we discuss here goes right at the heart of my doctoral research. You can get some background on the problems I've dealt with if you search online for Inductive Logic Programming and Statistical Relational Learning.

People in my research community have grappled with these questions for a long time and tried to put together the pieces of the puzzle: relations, functions, algorithms, programs, logic, probabilities, statistics, learning, reasoning... the human mind. They have consistently failed because the pieces of the puzzle don't fit.

I think in modern machine learning people have simply given up on trying to make any coherent image out of the puzzle pieces and just bashed them until they yielded and are now wedged together in incongruous patterns that sort of show some kind of image, there. But the incongruities are still felt, like nails on a blackboard.
> But how does it work?

There clearly is something doing the scheduling and dispatching somewhere in the stack. There will most likely be queues involved and data structures linking receivers and emitters if you are using events. If you use system threads, they might actually be multiple schedulers involved (the OS one and the runtime one).

My advice is to pick up a system book about designing OS which will have a section about scheduling and work from there. Runtime schedulers are not that different.
As always propaganda makes use of true facts/evidence and mixes them with bullshit to give it credibility
Its the brand. DnD had a major grow in the last years. DnD live play shows are getting their own animated series produced by amazon prime video. It became huge. There is your divinity 2 delta.
You're arguing that annexing Taiwan and then refraining from redirecting industrial output/revenue towards the Chinese domestic market* will be a net profit for Beijing.

There's a big hole in that argument: annexation is not free. It has costs: the destruction of infrastructure assets, loss of life, capital flight, skilled labor flight, private sector boycotts, the burden of new sanctions and the expenditure of military action, occupation and administration.

The only reason to annex a country is if the expected gains offset these costs. Therefore, looting.

*This is what I mean by looting.
Nano 1 was on sale as recently as 2016. It's only 7 years old - there is literally no reason why they can't keep it working. And if they say they can't they are literally incompetent and their tech department needs to be replaced.
Unfortunately I heard he is in it via some terrible retcon.
But was that the case a month before the invasion?
It's funny that three people feel the urge to reply for the author and all of them are wrong :-)

Also I find it interesting that in Portuguese as well as in Spanish the word exists in both genders: el barco, la barca, o barco, a barca.
> Photoshop [...] runs in on a remote computer

Does it? Last time I checked, “cloud” in “Creative Cloud” meant “now you have to pay a monthly subscription”.

And reverse engineering Photoshop to make a competitor might be a legal practice, if done properly – for example, see the ReactOS project.

Aside from that, I think your point still stands though.
One simple thing I need thats stopping me from jumping into Livebook fully: Salesforce API integration. Right now, I can't manage to make the auth work there (since oAuth needs some http redirect dance).

Connecting to some proper SQL database is a breeze, but if I cannot access some silo'ed data that is absilute critical, its not that useful after all :-/
>The language is literally designed

I think that is a matter of some debate.
I was wondering the same.

Ubersuggest has a comparison page[0]. From my understanding it boils down to Ubersuggest being cheaper and most likely enough for what most users will need, but Ahrefs has a larger tool suite (and much higher cost).

[0] https://neilpatel.com/blog/ubersuggest-vs-ahrefs/
> If anything is transformative, an AI that doesn't memorize its input is.

I suspect the answer to the question "is it, though?" is one for the lawyers and lawmakers rather than for the software developers, and it may well vary wildly by jurisdiction.
In the UK this is protected by consumer law under the terms of the The Consumer Rights Act 2015. Anyone who bought their devices direct from British Gas should write to them saying that they want repair, replacement with equivalent devices that will work, or a full refund.

There is no time limit, only "reasonable", which for something that is fixed into your house, 20 years seems reasonable to me. You could settle for prorating the 20 year life, so if you've had it 5 years then they will refund 75% or something.

British Gas is easily big enough to absorb the losses, and has a lot of bad press at the moment because of the profit it has been making. It would set a good example for future cases.

https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-...
> There's also no consent banner, so this doesn't seem GDPR compliant

Plausible uses this one weird trick where they don't use cookies and don't store PII, and thus don't need consent (neither for cookies nor for GDPR). You lose some data because you can't track users across visits, but you gain accuracy (because you can track every visit, not just people who agree) and don't have to annoy your visitors.
A solution to camera shake [video]
Thanks! I don't understand the game still with the explanations :D This is probably me, but just in case this is useful, here is what/why I don't understand:

1. there seems to be only one thing I can do each time: take the biggest chunk and move it to a border, so I just keep doing that like a robot. I don't see where I have any kinds of choice or challenge?

2. it doesn't seem to make a difference to which border I move the big chunk (right, top, left, bottom)

3. sometimes after I have moved the chunk, the board changes only a bit, and sometimes it seems to get totally replaced by a new board. I don't understand why
I wonder — when GPTBot crawls my website, which has a number of translations performed using GPT, will it use all that data for training future models? That doesn't seem like a good idea, but I don't know how they could tell.
You can get these with the composition keys. Shift+AltGr = ˇ and then hit the letter to compose them
Also that 'feature' where it suddenly wants to completely change my route to 'a faster route' unless I interact with the UI in a time pressure WHILE I'M DRIVING or on a motorcycle. And that's the default setting!!! Who thought that was OK?
That's a bit offputting at a glance but I was quickly confident I could find the street name of any street I was in within a second.
The universe is probably not a simulation
GPUs are reliving the bad old days style proprietary tools & ISAs world.

Which the GP computing world broke out of with the advent of multi vendor ISA compatibility in commodity CPUs (x86, later others) and open source compilers (GCC, later others). Before that the sw stacks were buggy, vendor locked, expensive, were gatekeeping programming langugaes development, very similarly as now in GPUs.
You missed a lot in the last 5 years, DnD has become huge. Not in the video game sector, but thats why the huge DnD fanbase is craving for a good video game and BG3 delivered. I think most buyers are actually driven by that and not BG nostalgia.
A large number of C programmers can write code at that level. But over the many, many years that this supposed problem has existed, not one has stepped up to do it. Many other problems have been solved with open source software, many of them much harder than this. So maybe the fact it hasn't been done indicates it's not really that important.
Absolute layman here, but from what I've read it's supposed to show diamagnetism and the Meissner effect and flux pinning. Assuming no new weird physics, the only materials that exhibit those behaviours are superconductors.
That is a MASSIVE piece of LK99 if it is true. Any information on source? Any details?
The irony of fast company complaining about Google maps being an eyesore while their mobile website is an ad-ridden hellscape is disgustingly poetic.
The theming on Linux desktops is generally CSS based. For example, gtk/gnome shell is fully styled with CSS - with shell extensions written in JS.
That would also require the molecules to be arranged in regular crystal with an axis parallel to the direction of shaking and also maintain that arrangement which for a liquid would require the molecules to be perfectly still (absolute zero) since a material with vibrating molecules that stay in a crystalline arrangement would be otherwise called a solid.
> everyone I know has a landline

We clearly live in very different bubbles

> digital/fiber/whatever

VoIP

> cheaper than paying multiple cell bills

Nobody pays multiple cell bills unless they wanna use several data-only eSIMs from different carriers to get better speed/coverage. If you just want a lot of phone numbers, you can port your numbers to a VoIP provider and forward them. Way cheaper than a landline
Additionally, it's not enough to just invest the time and money that Nvidia did. Now that Nvidia are embedded and have a head-start, AMD would need to spend much more to undo the advantage.
What's causing Australia's frozen chip shortage and how long will it last?
They don't mention = they weren't concerned. Yes normally it's primarily the vertical axis but you don't want these layers slipping sideways in case of light earthquake. Or water from outside getting in not only messing the electrolyte but also causing whole thing to swell. There are plenty of potential problems, needs much more r&d.
> GitHub

Be careful with using their CI tho, even if it's good, you hit the limit quite fast (especially storage, not minutes; and they don't report properly where the storage expenditure comes, so it's very frustrating).
> I can't understand why AMD leaves so much on the table.

You're asking why a smaller, less funded team, doesn't throw massive resources into following an encumbent with multi-year head start and questionable ability to extract a big profit... vs. spending resources into entering disjoint markets where they can win (e.g. being the vendor of choice of almost every single console on the market - PS5, Xbox, Deck, etc.).
Thanks for sharing this.

I didn't know that some of these tools offer a startup credit program. I know some of the tools mentioned would have been helpful for a project that I have been working on in the last couple of years[0].

[0]: https://zesfy.com/
Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist – Against Men (2016)
Very strange, I was in high school I made a flash-based "web desktop" by the same name as a fun project. Funny coincidence.
Magnetic levitation can't be done with normal magnets alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw%27s_theorem

TL;DR: Normal magnets have two poles, and will try to flip themselves around to achieve a lower energy state. You cannot levitate a normal magnet on another magnet without mechanical stabilization. Superconducting materials actively repel all magnetic field lines and can achieve levitation without external stabilization.
Roy "Jaws" Scheider stumbling into the cabin:

"You're gonna need a bigger bowl of popcorn!"
A shaded relief map of Europe rendered from 3D data and satellite imagery
that's the problem: if you look what companies are actually using, there's definitely a lot of non-web technology going on there.
Models trained on the data from another model eventually leads to model collapse.
>> Why won't you show me the street name?

>I've been running into this a lot lately. No matter how much I zoom -- no street name. This is Mapping 101.

Google Maps does this all over Belgium, showing hotels and restaurants and shops and never the street name. Very frustrating indeed.

I use OSM for street names, because it just works.
>Unwrap and fromJust can be disallowed if need be, they are "unsafe" convenience functions whose use can and should be tracked.

And with the same sort of third-party tools you use to 'track' those and ensure they're not used, you can track unused error returns in Go or C.

> Not all languages with sum types will permit them.

All do.

>Rust also has "unsafe" code blocks, should we also claim it is therefore not memory safe? Some would try to do so, but at least this unsafe code is tracked and not idiomatic.

Absolutely we should! Rust fanatics try to claim it is a memory-safe language when it isn't. Real memory-safe languages like Java have existed for far longer.

>This may be how you choose to view them. But many of us seeking to build safer and more correct software aim to make programming more like mathematics. Mathematics tells us how to compose and tells us how to prove. Both things the software industry is currently failing at.

You missed the entire point of what I said.
My main pet peeve is how you cannot hide major roads from Google Maps, but there's no way to show trains and most public transit without clicking on a station. Even on a large city like London half the public transit is invisible.

What alternatives are there? I'm trying to use OSM, but I find it to complicated and time-consuming to do anything.
Two reports have increased my patience factor a lot on this

First, a theoretical study found that the phase that’s reported to be superconducting is likely to be metastable based on some density functional theory calculations. That implies that actually making it may be rather difficult, and raises the bar for reproductions to show exactly what they are finding is superconducting or not. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892

The second study was a comparison of the properties of superconducting Pb thin films with some of the data people have been reporting on LK-99 repro attempts. The authors hypothesize that people are getting micron to several nanometer sized particles of the superconducting phase embedded in an amporphous non-superconducting phase, and that this explains the mixed results. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01723

So, more careful analysis is needed and I’m still optimistic. I want to see much better x-ray and microscopic characterization along with the resistance data and so on, especially because the property measurements can be tricky. (My background is materials science but not superconductivity or condensed matter physics if that matters)
Other than government mandates, I don’t pay for things that cost more than they’re worth to me. I just don’t buy them and I think most people have a similar approach.
The term bubble implies that the not-water is (mostly) air. But these voids are appearing in the middle of the water, there is nowhere for the air to come in from.
I tried to run llama-2 (13B) locally for translations. Comparing to gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4-0613, which I use a lot, and I tried with several languages that I know.

It is nowhere near usable.

Perhaps the 70B model performs better, but 13B produces translations that are garbage.
>> Again, that's incorrect. In what other science could you produce a model that nearly 100% accurately reproduces what the system being modelled would generate, and people would insist on saying that that doesn't really model the operation of that system? Inconsistent standards of evidence IMO.

As far as I'm concerned the problem with claims of great accuracy (100%? Surely you jest?) is that they go above and beyond the evidence provided by modelling. For example, take Convolutional Neural Nets used to train classifiers for objects in images. It is easy to agree that such systems model the human labelling of sets of pixels in digital images, but then this observation is taken as evidence that the systems in question are doing something more than that; namely, that they are somehow modelling human perception.

You can't just take any evidence you have and use it to support any hypothesis you like, and then call that "science". That's not science, it's wishful thinking. If you want machine learning to be scientific you have to be rigorous. But I'm sure if you start talking about scientific rigour in ICML and NeurIPs people will just laugh at you. "Here", they'll say, "we got systems worth millions, what's rigour got to do with anything?".

And they'll be right. Scientific rigour has never made anyone any millions.
I understand that denigrating a competitor is a defense mechanism to remove your unease, but really I would not bet against the Chinese.
They improved so much in the last three decades, taking advantage of western smugness, that the only question remaining is whether they will overtake USA or not.
> There was no device that would tell me a) the schedule of the next train departing from the station 10 min from where I am, b) when the store I am going will close, and c) how I'll get back when there's no train left for the day anymore. To your point there were service providing this info in part, in text format, on super small screen, and they'd cost around 5/10 bucks a month.

There is a free Android (+ iOS) app doing a) and c), it's Transit App, at least in 18 countries and 300 cities [0]. Gives you schedules and (multimodal) trip planning including car, bus, transit, train, subway, cycling, walking, rideshare, bikeshare, scooter rental. It has both scheduled and (near-)realtime information, detours, service interruptions etc. Shows you all the options you're interested in, rolled up by start time and total time, and includes cost(/estimated cost for rideshare).

In text format, on a super small screen, free.

> And I also get other people's position, and don't need to text them every 5 min to know if they're lost or stuck.

Well ok but very few people use that much. Why do you need it so much? Socializing? Hiking? Playing Pokemon?

[0]: https://transitapp.com/region
But this doesn't answer the question why 14 and not 16. There's a diff of two there...
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I suspect the complicated bit of Citrix isn't the client, rather at the server end to manage multiple instances of apps running efficiently - where these apps are design to expect they own everything in the enviroment.
The price is irrelevant. What matters is how long that kind of device can be reasonably expected to last. Dumb wall sockets cost about £5 and last >20 years. Smart sockets should last a comparable time, or come with a warning.

Because cellphones are traditionally something you replace every 3-4 years it's expected that they only last that long, and you are fully aware of that when you are buying it.
It should be a self reevaluating moment rather than a "china bad" moment.

China went from agricultural an third world country to a main contributor in many domains and the manufacturer of all our tech gadgets, in the same time the west pretty much stagnated
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This tool will help with the latter. Use it & let me know what you think.
Welcome to the cloud dystopia.
I meant that even for hosting in the cloud it seems high.

I have a hard time understanding where the cost is coming from. I can only assume it's because of the DB as opposed to the instance or S3.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was over 10x cheaper if you didn't use cloud hosting.
and even if you do go for the paid version, it's much cheaper too
RAII uses destructors. Destructors are a language feature that is even more ad-hoc than errdefer. Instead of writing general-purpose functions, you need special functions for construction and destruction. That's bad design.

errdefer is not just used for destroying objects either, no more than functions are only used for constructing objects.
It could just be hard to make this material.

The only thing we need is solid evidence that it's superconducting. If anyone has a stone that's superconducting at room temperature, then we know it's out there, it's possible to make it. It doesn't matter so much how it was made. If it exists, that's a great step in itself, isn't it?
True, but what I meant was that the labs that couldn't replicate even diamagnetism clearly haven't created the same material, as the original LK-99 was shown to be diamagnetic.

If someone can show that it is diamagnetic and not superconducting then that could be evidence that they recreated the same material, but that it doesn't show superconductivity.
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Most of Photoshop works offline, but some of the newer 'AI' features run on Adobe servers and need an online connection (and account) to work.
A browser isolation prototype that replays remote draw commands via WebAssembly
That, I did not know, and I'm quite happy to hear. I use Plausible where I can, but this kind of information is always helpful to have.