LOL *NSFW* *The new Demote thread*

Yeah let’s not go there.

The amount of data my car - or any new car - spaffs at the manufacturer is bad enough as it is. I don’t need the government tapping into that fountain, because we all know just how good governments are at keeping private information private and not misusing it in any way at all….

 

You can be sure they already do this whether you like it or not.

 

That's about the face of it and this day was always going to come, I guess the EV per mile rate will creep up as the ratio of EVs on the road increases, and people will be used to it by then.

It'll be interesting to see how it's implemented.

 

Oh don't think me naiive in this regard. Few corporate entities have sufficient wealth or inclination to stand against demands from governments. Even when that does happen - such the UK government demanding Apple hand over encryption keys for any iPhone anywhere in the world despite the fact that Apple literally cannot access those keys in the first place, and Apple pulling that particular product from the UK as a result of that demand - that defiance only extends as far as that company's interests.

My point was: let's not actively welcome making this situation worse than it already is.

 

They didn't do the wedding ring, cowards.

 

A large delivery of bread containing nuts and dried fruit was discovered missing from Tesco's this morning.

Police have reported it as stollen.

 

Oof.

Someone will be along shortly, with your coat, to show you to the door, sir.

 

Leading AI companies, claim AI makes workers more efficient:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...terprise-ai-spending#xenforo-comments-3890209

 

Snake oil will cure what ails ya according to new report commissioned by leading snake oil salesman

 

This was flapping about on the bottom of your link:

Dev gambles on 'obviously fake' $8K Grace Hopper system, scores $80,000 worth of hardware on Reddit for one-tenth of the cost — buyer's haul includes 960GB of DDR5 RAM worth more than what he paid for the entire rig | Tom's Hardware

Seems like a candidate for Mod of the Month. Of course, I have very little idea what any of that kit is for apart from the thing called a "case".

 

“AI” LLMs, and that’s about it.

I’ve no doubt that someone somewhere will have worked out how to make this run more “general purpose” software such as a regular ol’ Linux OS, but it’s going to be very tailored towards Nvidia’s stuff.

But, even though “AI” is utter horseplop, you’d be a fool to treat this like a “regular” “general purpose” computer. Even if you’re not going to be running gargantuan-sized LLM models on it, this is absolutely tailored towards highly-parallelised HPC workloads - think fluid dynamics simulations, climate modelling, particle physics, genomics, financial modelling, Monte Carlo simulations, that kind of thing.

The dude is probably Yet Another AI Bro - I haven’t read the original blog post - so will likely use it for LLMs, but personally I’d be getting in touch with my local university. As freakin’ cool as it might be to have that kind of hardware power, that’s the kind of system that’d be a massive benefit to researchers. Researchers who usually have to justify incredibly expensive compute costs or bid for time on a supercomputer; it’s hard to overstate the benefit of having that kind of compute power just sitting around in your lab waiting for workloads.

 

But can it pl....

Yes. It probably can in that case. With real-time weather, on the accurately-modelled surface of Saturn against an intelligent horde of millions of Xen dudes. In 10K 4D graphics. Beamed directly into your head.

 

Actually, I’d be surprised if these can run gaming workloads at all. Typically, the drivers for Nvidia’s “AI” cards/GPUs don’t support graphics APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan, DX11/DX12, etc.

Their “RTX Pro” “Workstation” cards, like the £8,000 RTX Pro 6000, do support graphics APIs because those APIs are sometimes used in the “workstation” applications they’re intended to accelerate, like CAD/CAM packages. But they would use the “Studio” driver package, which isn’t as optimised for gaming as their “Gaming” driver package.

But this class of enterprise hardware… “Nah mate, you can’t use these to build your game streaming empire, we’ve got a whole different product lineup to sell you for that - with this we’ll give you CUDA and nothing else, and you will be happy with what we give you.”

 

My laptop is a Studio card games like a boss but yup that is another beast entirely and amazing thing for the guy to take a punt on just in case.

 

In my head, the two lab techs from Better Off Ted are sitting there checking their watches, glancing furtively over their shoulders and waiting for 17:01 before racing each other to the machine to fight over whether to fire up Quake or Black Mesa (because it's too overpowered for vanilla Half Life).

 

Don't say that, you'll have the right-wing lunatics reaching for their lead balaclavas...

 

So… tinfoil hats aren’t good enough anymore more…?

Wait… Not when it involves techno-necromancers from Alpha Centauri! Not even lead is enough to protect you!

 

Osmium balaclavas it is then, the denser the better…