Tuesday, May 28
Daily News Stuff 28 May 2024
Sue All The Things Edition
Sue All The Things Edition
Top Story
- Elon Musk's xAI has raised $6 billion in funding from people hoping to cash out before the bubble bursts. (Tech Crunch)
Okay. It's still garbage, but it's competition for the communists running OpenAI and Google.
Tech News
- Stop making brightly coloured toys, say anti-waste reasearchers. (The Guardian)
If everything is grey and nobody buys anything, we will all lead happier, more fulfilling lives.
Somehow.
- AMD's Zen 5 could be launching in August and on sale in October. (WCCFTech)
- Or they could be available in retail stores by July. (WCCFTech)
Those stories were posted twelve hours apart.
- Big Data is dead. (Mother Duck)
A decade ago, all the noise that now surrounds AI was about Big Data - querying petabytes of garbage to get bytes of gold.
Turns out there was no gold, and in most cases, not even any petabytes. The typical large company has 100GB of analytical data, with some going up to a terabyte or so, which will fit easily on a cheap consumer SSD that can deliver a million IOPS.
- Medical research into ultra-processed food has tripled since 2020. (Ars Technica)
Has it found anything?
Well, no.
- Specs have leaked for Motorola's next-gen G85 phone. (Notebook Check)
I have a Moto G54, one step down in the previous generation. Great phone. Does everything I need. Cost about $120.
Disclaimer: There is no fork either. I think all our cutlery is in the dishwasher.
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I wonder how much reeeing you'd see in the comments if you pointed out that fake meat is ultra-processed.
As an aside, a couple years ago I accidentally ate a hamburger made of one of the plant-based things. I don't know which brand it was. I could instantly tell it wasn't beef, and I didn't really like it, but it wasn't really bad. I wouldn't eat it on purpose, though.
As an aside, a couple years ago I accidentally ate a hamburger made of one of the plant-based things. I don't know which brand it was. I could instantly tell it wasn't beef, and I didn't really like it, but it wasn't really bad. I wouldn't eat it on purpose, though.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 29 2024 12:57 AM (BMUHC)
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A (former) gewgle engineer claims that Big Data is dead? Well, I'm sure that's the case! I mean, he has silly, hand-drawn graphs and all. Also, the fact that commodity hardware is catching up with stuff that barely qualified as "big data" in 1999 obviously means what he says.
And, yes, he's right that the stuff that he, and his colleagues, were selling as "big data" just doesn't qualify any more is entirely true, but that doesn't mean that he's not obviously distracting from the larger point: if you have the resources you can extract tons of quite useful information from the miasma of nonsense. Which is what he used to do. And is now what he is denying has any value or meaning. While his (former?) employer leverages every cent out of what he helped to design. And I'm sure there's nothing nefarious going on there.
And, yes, he's right that the stuff that he, and his colleagues, were selling as "big data" just doesn't qualify any more is entirely true, but that doesn't mean that he's not obviously distracting from the larger point: if you have the resources you can extract tons of quite useful information from the miasma of nonsense. Which is what he used to do. And is now what he is denying has any value or meaning. While his (former?) employer leverages every cent out of what he helped to design. And I'm sure there's nothing nefarious going on there.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 29 2024 01:18 PM (bg2DR)
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Rick C:
The solution to "ultra-processed" food is uh . . . wait, are we calling it "plant-based" this week? Yeah, Plant Based! It's the follow-on to "Organic", which is the offspring of "All Natural", which came about some time after "Pure"!
(Which, honestly, is due for a revival)
The solution to "ultra-processed" food is uh . . . wait, are we calling it "plant-based" this week? Yeah, Plant Based! It's the follow-on to "Organic", which is the offspring of "All Natural", which came about some time after "Pure"!
(Which, honestly, is due for a revival)
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, May 29 2024 01:23 PM (bg2DR)
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