curios

Maybe you could become CuriOS… like operating system curious? OK I’ll see myself out.

Thanks for making the video but also for providing non Youtube link. Maybe there is a PeerTube server that would enjoy hosting it.

Orange vs Apple! Who will win!

That being said I do wish every country would have a better public infrastructure.

Just out of curiosity if you do have recent research in economy on the impact of subway, tram, bus, bike lanes, etc on both productivity AND happiness, please do share. I’m already convinced but I’d love to learn more on how and why.

Nice try FBI, you’re not getting that info from me!

Meanwhile I’m traveling soon and “packing” microSDs, like… 0.5Tos the size and nearly weight of my fingernail. It’s ridiculous!

I considered buying the 2To ones … but I don’t even need them. Even the 0.5To ones it’s to carry some video library or Kiwix with Wikipedia and StackOverflow which to be honest I don’t even truly need as I can get the content over the Internet anyway.

while WINE/Proton are good, they’re not infallible.

Just finished the latest trendy AAA game (Clair Obscur) thanks to Proton and Steam… 45hrs of (amazing) gaming and I didn’t tinker with a single option.

extremely not tech-savvy

You managed to make an account and post on Lemmy so you’re probably underestimated your technical knowledge. That being said IMHO it’s best to first list what software you use then find alternatives that work on Linux. Once that’s done then yes sure try whatever distribution you want.

If you know the right tool for the task, very few things take time. IMHO what’s more problematic is that with enshitification you’re swimming upstream. Sure as long as the maintainer finds the right trick, you can postpone indefinitely bad “surprises” but ultimately, why do so when proper alternatives more aligned with your Worldview exist?

So many you didn’t list one.

Also OP didn’t talk about AI broadly, just vibe coding.

Hopefully it was a symbolic downvote. They say they did only to provoke but in reality they did upvote.

Good analogy as most people don’t understand how a microwave is working either.

That being said, at least microwaving isn’t on fast track to pollute our entire ecosystem so…

The biggest flaw in this study is that the LLM group wasn’t allowed to edit their essays

I didn’t read the whole thing but only skimmed through the protocol. I only spotted

“participants were instructed to pick a topic among the proposed prompts, and then to produce an essay based on the topic’s assignment within a 20 minutes time limit. Depending on the participant’s group assignment, the participants received additional instructions to follow: those in the LLM group (Group 1) were restricted to using only ChatGPT, and explicitly prohibited from visiting any websites or other LLM bots. The ChatGPT account was provided to them. They were instructed not to change any settings or delete any conversations.”

which I don’t interpret as no editing. Can you please share where you found that out?

The biggest flaw in this study is that the LLM group wasn’t allowed to edit their essays

Very interesting, emphasis mine :

"findings support the view that external support tools restructure not only task performance but also the underlying cognitive architecture. The Brain-only group leveraged broad, distributed neural networks for internally generated content; the Search Engine group relied on hybrid strategies of visual information management and regulatory control; and the LLM group optimized for procedural integration of AI-generated suggestions.

These distinctions carry significant implications for cognitive load theory, the extended mind hypothesis [102], and educational practice. As reliance on AI tools increases, careful attention must be paid to how such systems affect neurocognitive development, especially the potential trade-offs between external support and internal synthesis."

Also the focus on agency and ownership is also very interesting, namely regardless of the scored outcome or how one might think the work itself changed them, or not, do they themselves feel it is their work?

Yes but it’s probably worth reading the fine prints of a poll before coming up to the conclusion that 100% - 85% of one answer means 15% of the polar opposite. Chances are that there is a non null share of “I do not know” or even they didn’t understand the question.

Moore’s law is kinda still in effect, depending on your definition of Moore’s law.

Sounds like the goal post is moving faster than the number of transistors in an integrated circuit.

LOL… you did make me chuckle.

Aren’t we 18months until developers get replaced by AI… for like few years now?

Of course “AI” even loosely defined progressed a lot and it is genuinely impressive (even though the actual use case for most hype, i.e. LLM and GenAI, is mostly lazier search, more efficient spam&scam personalized text or impersonation) but exponential is not sustainable. It’s a marketing term to keep on fueling the hype.

That’s despite so much resources, namely R&D and data centers, being poured in… and yet there is not “GPT5” or anything that most people use on a daily basis for anything “productive” except unreliable summarization or STT (which both had plenty of tools for decades).

So… yeah, it’s a slow take off, as expected. shrug

Right and that’s just for inference I imagine, not training. Still honestly that’s exactly the kind of experimentation most people are not doing and thus not realizing the impact of a simple click on a slick button to get an imagine out.

They click, get the cute image, move on.

You on the other hand, like me and others, do have a first hand experience of SOME of the energetic cost … and that is scary to imagine this at scale.

I have a page documenting what I tried locally (if you are curious check https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/SelfHostingArtificialIntelligence ) and I even try models on my GPU or dedicated hardware (e.g OAK-D Lite) so yes I do believe self-hosting is interesting on some dimensions, in particular in terms of privacy and sovereignty, but my question was about the energy cost.

My understanding is that training is order of magnitude more expensive than inference, regardless of where it’s being run, remotely, self-hosted or locally. Am I way off base?

Well even a PWA still has to be developed and maintained.

encourage brigading or harassment

Indeed and that’s not the purpose of my post. If you believe that’ll be the outcome I’ll delete it.