The #Rust official #documentation ("The Rust Programming Language") recommends crashing when your command-line arguments aren’t valid #UTF-8! #Unicode #braindamage
#Ejabberd isn’t just #Jabber now; it supports #Matrix Hydra rooms. And #ACME.
“#DeepSeek says that the main restriction on their development is lack of compute, and the PRC responds not by helping them get better chips but by advising them to not use the chips that they have, greatly slowing things down at least for a while. (...) It’s also not fair to fully pin this on DeepSeek when they were forced to do a lot of their training this year on #Huawei Ascend chips rather than Nvidia chips.” (The #NVIDIA chips they had been using in the past.) #China #politics #neural-networks #AI #news
Josh You, Alex Erben, and Ege Erdil estimate that a typical #GPT-4o #neural-networks #AI query uses 0.3 watt hours, based on the estimates that it’s a 400-billion-parameter MoE model in which ¼ of the parameters are activated for a given query, so each token requires 200 gigaflops (100 billion multiplies and 100 billion adds I guess), a typical query produces 500 output tokens (about a page of text), and they’re running on 1-petaflop/s H100 GPUs, with the overall cluster consuming at peak 1500 watts per GPU, with a utilization rate of 10%, and that the cluster on average consumes 70% of peak power. This works out to 1.05 kilojoules, or about 0.25 kilocalories, the amount of food #energy in one gram of carbohydrates. So a standard 2000kcal/day diet works out to 8000 GPT-4o queries per day, if we believe You, Erben, and Erdil’s estimate. For someone who is looking for GPT-4o-quality output, if you are producing less than 8000 pages of writing per day, you are less energy-efficient than GPT-4o.
#Arduino (#AVR) preemptive multithreading operating system. Looks abandoned 8 years ago. #operating-systems
on Giles Clement #manufacturing watch #mechanisms from scratch in a Brooklyn basement
the difficulties of C3 metabolism in hot climates, tomatoes etc.
#Quartz #materials in various granulometries and purities.
#CIA report on #Perón, or rather Cámpora, returning to power in #Argentina in 01973, very similar to Trump in many ways. #politics #history #toread