Tuesday, May 02
Daily News Stuff 2 May 2023
From Out Of The Silent Woodwork Edition
From Out Of The Silent Woodwork Edition
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- Geoffey Hinton, the quote godfather of AI unquote who previously boasted that his work would eradicate the need for radiologists has quit Google so that he can warn the world about the dangers of, well, Geoffrey Hinton. (Insane)
What the dangers are, he has not actually specified. Radiologists are not notably a dying breed.
- What are notably a dying breed are crappy internet news sites like Waypoint. (Culture)
BuzzFeed News is dead and that actually reported stories on occasion, so it's no surprised that Waypoint, a part of the sprawling Vice clusterfuck founded on the notion that games journalists spend too much time talking about games - and are basically all fascists anyway - is shutting down in a month with all hands reported lost.
And there was much rejoicing.
Tech News
- What's that, Lassie? I have two other cloud servers that I forgot about that just renewed for a year?
SSDNodes. Cheap, not top-tier performance, but actually pretty reliable. One of them had been up for 632 days until I upgraded it to Ubuntu 22.04 just now.
And when I say cheap, I mean less per year than DigitalOcean charges per month. Which is why I didn't notice the bill right away.
The one flaw is that you can't do a custom install so getting ZFS and LXD working is a bit of a pain. Also they seem to run local storage and not redundant network storage so if your host node fails, your server goes down and so do your backups. Hence ZFS and LXD which make it easy to take snapshot backups and ship them off site.
- IBM is planning to replace 30% of administrative staff with AI over the next five years. (Yahoo Finance)
Since at least 30% of administrative staff do absolutely nothing, this plan seems viable.
- If you want to fire 30% of your own administrative staff, MLC LLM, a chatbot based on Vicuna-7B-V1.1, which is in turn based on Meta's (that is, Facebook's) open-source LLaMA, is small enough to run on a phone if that phone is reasonably capable. (Tom's Hardware)
Not hosted on a server and accessed from your phone, but the entire thing running on your phone with no other resources required.
Or you could just find the 30% doing nothing and fire them and call it a day.
- The Asus Zenbook S13 OLED 2023 is available with 32GB of RAM. (The Verge)
And it has one of those 2880x1800 OLED screens. They're ubiquitous, but they're actually good.
CPU is an i7-1355U which only has two P cores (and eight E cores), so it's kind of meh but not terrible. No 4EK but you pays your money and you takes your chances.
- Beelink has two new NUCs with AMD's latest 7840HS and 7940HS CPUs. (Liliputing)
These will have some of the best CPU and graphics performance of anything this size, but the pricing - they start at $1299 without memory, storage, or an operating system - is ridiculous.
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"What the dangers are, he has not actually specified."
The more I hear about "80% of jobs will be eliminated by AI" the more I think about a series of books I've been reading on Kindle. The basic premise is that a couple of decades from now, pretty much all the governments on Earth collapsed due to the stupid stuff they're all doing, and an alien race that managed a network of hyperspace tunnels made first contact with us. There's a bunch of other races out, several of which are humanoid, and some of which are millions of years old.
Pretty much all of them rejected automation (and to a lesser extent, AI) except in limited areas like starship and space station management, under the idea that too much automation leads to stagnation, and the more I hear out of government and companies like Google, the more I wonder.
The more I hear about "80% of jobs will be eliminated by AI" the more I think about a series of books I've been reading on Kindle. The basic premise is that a couple of decades from now, pretty much all the governments on Earth collapsed due to the stupid stuff they're all doing, and an alien race that managed a network of hyperspace tunnels made first contact with us. There's a bunch of other races out, several of which are humanoid, and some of which are millions of years old.
Pretty much all of them rejected automation (and to a lesser extent, AI) except in limited areas like starship and space station management, under the idea that too much automation leads to stagnation, and the more I hear out of government and companies like Google, the more I wonder.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, May 02 2023 11:43 PM (BMUHC)
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The article about the Beelink mini PCs--Beelink makes nice ones, btw, I have a 1235U, you can get one with 32GB of RAM and 500GB of NVMe for about $550--misses the comment (to be fair, it's a couple of screens down) on the AliExpress listing that says "these are placeholder prices and will be changed when the listing goes live around May 7, until then just favorite the listing."
The Beelink GTR6 with a Ryzen 6900H, 32GB and 500GB and Windows 11 Pro, is (barely) under $900 on Amazon.
The Beelink GTR6 with a Ryzen 6900H, 32GB and 500GB and Windows 11 Pro, is (barely) under $900 on Amazon.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, May 02 2023 11:51 PM (BMUHC)
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Thanks, that sounds a bit better. I'll wait a week and see what the real prices are.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 03 2023 03:21 AM (PiXy!)
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For mini PCs with a dGPU, about the only option I've found is the Minisforum Neptune series. The HX99G has a 6900HX and a 6600m for $829 barebones, or $1069 with 32GB/1TB. the HX80G, with a 5800H and 6600m and the same storage, is $709.
These look pretty interesting, all things considered.
These look pretty interesting, all things considered.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 03 2023 06:46 AM (BMUHC)
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Pixy, title and author of the series you're rerading, please?
Posted by: furball321 at Wednesday, May 03 2023 01:52 PM (vVbbK)
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Um, which series? I'm not reading anything at the moment but might have mentioned something.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 03 2023 03:19 PM (PiXy!)
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Sorry! The mention of the series was in Rick C's comment above.
Posted by: furball321 at Thursday, May 04 2023 06:16 AM (vVbbK)
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