yogthos

yogthos , 3 months ago to memes in Links and recommendations, please...

• The Hu
• Nine Treasures
• Ningen Isu

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Taiwan death toll rises and scores still missing after island's biggest earthquake in 25 years

Not as bad as Turkey, but still pretty rough.

yogthos , 3 months ago to asklemmy in What is the last video game that you were completely hooked on?

Viewfinder store.steampowered.com/app/1382070/Viewfinder/

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

Lemmy is still small enough that older posts have a chance to stick around. Another benefit over a huge forum like reddit where the sheer volume of stuff buries things really fast.

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

That’s right, I spread Russian propaganda as reported by mainstream western media.

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

Chip production might have different requirements from shell production, but it’s a good example of how difficult it is to bootstrap an industry. Also, nobody is talking about allocating anything to Ukrainian domestic production capacity here. Maybe actually try and read that RUSI article till you understand what it’s saying.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Chinese GDP will be more than double that of the US in under a decade, if recent growth rates persist.

China is a country of 1.4 billion, so it can reasonably aim for at least triple the US economy.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Cambodia getting a China-backed, game-changing canal

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yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Cambodia getting a China-backed, game-changing canal

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess they’ve done cost analysis before embarking on this project. I find it hilarious how lay people always assume that engineers embarking on years long projects don’t think of these really basic things up front. Like you really think that you just had this epiphany that nobody involved in the project considered?

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Cambodia getting a China-backed, game-changing canal

You can move a much higher volume of cargo by ship, also avoids the need to unload it and move it to rail.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to worldnews in Moscow Is Outpacing Ukraine’s Allies in the Race for Ammunition

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/558667e9-c397-4a22-b214-ba659b870524.jpeg

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to technology in Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its AWS bills

Not sure what your point is here. The whole point of stuff like Petals is to facilitate a way to do this by harnessing a lot of computers around the world. It would be slower than doing it in a data center, but it’s not a show stopper if this is something that only needs to be done occasionally.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to technology in Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its AWS bills

Sure, but I don’t think that’s a show stopper since you don’t need to do comprehensive training often. Also worth noting that stuff like LoRAs allow extending functionality of models without retraining from scratch. So, most training might be relatively small within a specific context.

yogthos OP , 3 months ago to technology in Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its AWS bills

As far as I know there aren’t any other open source alternatives at the moment that are comparable to commercial models. The main roadblock for open source models is the cost of initial training. As we see with Stability AI, relying on companies to do this isn’t really a sustainable approach. I’d really like to see more work going into stuff like Petals to allow training and running models using a distributed network.

yogthos , 3 months ago to worldnews in NATO Proposes $100 Billion, Five-Year Fund to Aid Ukraine

That money is already allocated, it’s not just sitting there in a big pile collecting dust.