what is the significance of the v in RETVRN?
Its a good point, I think its a failure of heuristically thinking. We like that easy variable.
Yes I understand. I appreciate you asking for clarification.
Yes correct. Potable water is used because it is "cleaner". Also, it is more likely that potable water systems are what are available to connect to. There is no technical reason why we have to use potable water and evaporative cooling. It's a financial and logistical decision.
The market would solve for this if it were a free market, but you know how that goes. As I note governments are mismatched against the resources of the tech companies. Thats not to say the companies are bad, but we need to be open eyed about the current ability to build new systems and price resources.
Yeah, I don't recall specifics but if I have awkward transitions, a bad paragraph, etc it's something I'll try.
I have had a very similar experience. A short break went longer and longer. At this point I had maybe 3 beers and a few sips of wine in 2.5 years.
In the first year I had a few non-alcoholic beers and felt that "social anxiety dissolving away" as if it were real alcohol. I realized much of the benefit was psychological, if anything being drunk works against it. Also, overall I feel sharper. This can come with additional, not necessarily pleasant but useful self-reflection.
I don't think I'll ever drink again, although I'm not totally against some other future psychoactive alternative.
Why Everyone’s Talking About Data Centers (and Missing the Point)
My feed has been full of hot takes on data centers and water. At first, I was excited. A national conversation about water infrastructure! We never get that kind of attention unless it’s a story about a catastrophic failure. Surely, I thought, all the money and momentum behind the AI boom could help rebuild some of our nation’s aging systems.
Of course, it never works out the way you’d like.
The first wave of articles from the mainstream media grabbed attention with dramatic headlines and sometimes shaky research. The New York Times, a favorite punching bag for opinion writers, became a focal point. Their article,... (read 1365 more words →)
I already liked the Kimi-K2 model. It's creative writing is very interesting and in chat it's no BS. One never knows how much these models are a mirror and how much its baked in so seeing the data is insightful.
It seems to me there's general pattern that new models do better, rather than a company vs company trend.
This is something we all need to hear time to time. That feeling of futility can be such a weight. I think not only should we personally acknowledge that we can accomplish more than we give ourselves credit for, but we should help others feel that way. Set people up for success, rack up wins and build momentum. The act of doing has benefits beyond the finished product and the lack of doing does harm beyond the opportunity cost.
I came across a similar "hack" on LinkedIn from Tom Styer:
"California just pulled off the nation’s largest-ever test of a virtual power plant.
This successful test proved VPPs are a fast, low-cost, zero-emissions way to make better use of the clean energy we already have — and to keep the lights on as demand surges from data centers, heat waves, and electrification."
Basically, they are talking about allowing residential batteries supply the grid during peak demand. I tend to be skeptical about stuff like this because in my own domain, water, there's a lot of pop science and bold claims that ignore scaling and logistics. I asked a smart fellow in that industry about... (read more)
Cool! I didn't know about bookmarklets. I knew Gemini would host little pages and apps made in canvas, so I played around a bit to see how different AI's handle it.
Gemini is like your Claude example. Here is a 5 min timer bookmarklet
https://g.co/gemini/share/73048c89f2f2
Perplexity lab made a bookmarklet and a nice html explainer, but sharing is a little less intuitive. There's a tab for "app" and at the bottom of that page a button to share the url. Here is a RNG (code works but the "drag the button" isn't (and I was just looking for proof of concept)
Random Number Generator Bookmarklet - Free Tool
Chatgpt has canvas like Gemini. It should work the... (read more)
I'm not suggesting data center construction should proceed without any concern. It is outrunning local capacity in some areas, but not all. Also, there are other cooling technologies that can be deployed that use less, or no water.
The logical conclusion is to assess all the externalities, then weigh the true cost for the private and public sector. If a city cannot accommodate the resource needs of a data center and population into the near future, then yes it should halt or slow down the construction.
The entire point of the article is that opinions are being formed using broad area numbers when the actual decision is very local.Not fair to say its the entire point. It spurred the article.