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China is the center of lithium ion battery tech nowadays. I've recently seen that they managed to bring down battery prices by 50% in the last two years and their EVs are cheaper than combustion based alternatives for 2/3 of models being sold.

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Agreed on all points but I have trouble believing that with this economy of scale there would be no money being pumped into R&D and in time some results of that.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

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If there's XMPP involved in that pattern then I question your recollection of events that happened. If anything this is going to be more like e-mail where commercial service providers might want to set up some obstacles to avoid spam but also hurt little guys in the process. We'll see how that goes with EU DSA laws though.

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They'll probably pull the rug one way or another. Maybe they won't because users could then move from Threads to a Mastodon instance that supports their favorite app and still keep in touch with all the people they follow.

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Having own client API doesn't affect ActivityPub compatibility.

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I think at certain point you're kind of expected to switch to INDEX & MATCH. I did plenty of Excel macros for work back in the day and at similar point I just switched to doing things in Python.

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There are environments where Excel is used as glue that does faux-ETL for very unpredictable data which is so small in volume you don't even consider a database. Also, database would mean MS Access which is just icky so it was used only when necessary.

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If you're reliant on third party add-ons you don't have a choice. Bloomberg and Eikon are two examples that didn't have a good Python API back then. Even after I started to use Python more sometimes I had to script opening up Excel itself, forcing formula refresh and exporting that.

You also need to consider that average Joe at a big financial corporation knows Excel so he uses that for everything. People that know Python are more expensive.

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It's Dungeons and Dragons that did. And fidget spinners.

Aptoide app store hits iOS in the European Union (www.notebookcheck.net)

As a direct consequence of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Google Play alternative Aptoide is now ready to take on iOS as well. The closed launch will take place tomorrow, and new users will need an invitation to join. Between 500 and 1,000 daily invites will be issued in the first stage....

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They will focus specifically on subscription based apps to finance Apple technology ransom fee so you know it's safe to ignore what's there for now.

misk ,
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EU cogs move slow, that's why Apple drags this out in this way.

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I found my current and previous job via LinkedIn but I applied through company recruitment portals. It's an ok job board / aggregator for us corporate types. You just have to ignore extremely deranged and deluded people posting ego stroke fests and the most inane advice.

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In case of paywall: https://archive.is/2024.06.03-170750/https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/

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US doesn't care about your data on TT that much, it's just a trade war. China recently banned a slew of US platforms so US has to respond tit for tat. I'm kinda confused why they're trying to sell it as something that looks like a major hypocrisy.

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Apologies, I misspoke. Yes, western social media has been banned since forever and China requires local majority stake for joint ventures.

What I was getting at is that in March China announced they are moving from Microsoft, Intel and AMD for government PCs. I imagine US is quite angry to be losing so many backdoor vectors. US and China are trading big blows now with 100% tariffs on EVs and TT ban.

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In case of paywall: https://archive.is/EWaBS

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That's a really weird thing to get angry over. Advertising as a term is much better at conveying what they wanted to.

misk ,
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Amazon is missing too.

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Very sustainable technology, this AI 😎

misk OP ,
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I like conspiracy theories like an average bloke does but have you seen quarterly reports from big tech? Their energy consumption and costs are skyrocketing. Are they in cahoots with big oil coal?

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There is tangible data on how much energy it's using.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/data-centers-could-use-9-us-electricity-by-2030-research-institute-says-2024-05-29/

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AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels. AI exploded and it's energy consumption exploded, there's lots of data to back it up. You're saying if not for AI there would be some other excuse. What excuse would that he? Would fossil fuel industry have to invent something that would consume this much energy?

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Microsoft and other big tech already power their data centers with their own renewables, and they will continue to do so. In the latest quarterly report from MS they admit they didn't anticipate AI boom to be this big and so they have to buy more power externally. This is not good for them and they wouldn't do this on purpose. They will catch up because it's profitable thing to do.

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It'll be a coal-powered Dyson sphere sustaining data center tasked with generating pictures of celebrity porn, Jesus, flight attendants, babies and seafood. By then AI will enjoy them as much as my mother does.

misk OP ,
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Lmgtfy

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147153/microsoft-ai-data-center-record-renewable-energy-purchase

misk OP ,
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Thank you for your effort.

Couple of takeaways:

I think we can use Bitcoin difficulty chart to approximate how much crypto weighs in the AI / crypto mix. BTC difficulty stopped increasing in 2024 which could be partially explained by both competing for same resources. The other big one, Ethereum moved to proof of stake fairly recently and I think it's an attractive proposition for other crypto given the above. With this in mind it's fair to say crypto won't be a big factor compared to AI growth and I would expect researchers to come to somewhat similar conclusions.

As to how good AI is at things:

  • Effectiveness of AI powered search is debatable but it's a subjective thing so I don't want to get into it.
  • Translation tech was one of the early ML implementations and it's good to see it improving even more. Transcription is one of the great uses but how many people need that on frequent basis?
  • I remain unconvinced that many multimedia generative AI use is legal due to how training data was obtained. We're in a limbo until this gets decided by US / EU etc.
  • As you've mentioned there is concern that we'll see a lot of wasteful applications of AI. I was horrified when Googled demoed assistant that would find your car plates by scanning your photo library.

The last one is key I think. Since AI is the current buzzword companies will try to shoehorn it everywhere, regardless of it making sense.

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I wonder what's the extent of dirt that Israel has on foreign high ranking officials due to hacking everyone's private phones via NSO / Pegasus. My gut was telling me that the amount of weird influence they have is enough to balance genocide in Gaza but now they're openly supporting Europe's adversaries? I hope they get fucked.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

misk ,
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It's a new blockchain. It'll fizzle out but we'll come up with a new buzzword by then.

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It will not be economically viable once AI companies have to pay for their training data. So far they made some deals with press/media but multimedia is a can of worms that's waiting to explode in our faces. They're getting away with this because doing things and then asking for permission / forgiveness is a very Sillicon Valley thing to do, for now.

Technology itself seems to be in a plateau. The whole AI computer thing is just moving computation offline because amounts of energy needed are unsustainable and have to be dumped on consumers. We haven't seen that much progress since ChatGPT took the world by storm.

I'm not saying AI is a fad. It's revolutionizing medical research for example, and those industries actually own the data they're training AI on. EU sees this and is currently working on streamlining exchanging this data across member states too.

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Ding ding ding

[edit] Ah, crypto bros are here, it explains a lot.

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