Colin McMillen

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Leopards. Burgers. Whatever.

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If there's one thing I wish I could communicate to the AI discourse on bluesky it's that while the longterm power needs of all NN software (especially in training) is large, the cost of a single query is quite small. and you can make it even smaller by using efficient models.

Honestly, without your reference image I'd have totally believed Sojiro as having a silver beard. The vibe totally works for him either way.

i love your costume so much -- it's so simple-seeming, but requires the right facial hair & hairstyle, but thankfully you appear to have that nailed

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

[1] estimates the cost of training GPT-4 to be roughly 1/3 of GPT's total electricity cost, so maybe add +33% if you want to amortize that cost over all queries

no idea how much more (or less) compute a GPT-5 query is compared to GPT-4, since it just came out

GPT-4 queries take about 3 watt-hours [1]
3 Wh is 3.6g CO2 worst case (coal = 1200g/kWh, divide by 333) [2]
average car emits 104g CO2 per km [3]
3.6 / 104 * 1000 = ~35m

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[3] www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

i would make an analogy along the lines of "eating a hotdog every so often isn't *ideal* but it's fine, but maybe don't eat hotdogs for 2 meals every day."

rule of thumb: one ChatGPT query has about the same environmental impact as driving a car 36 meters (120 feet).

sure, it's better for the environment if you don't, but a person using chatgpt once to dunk on it is not making a significant environmental impact compared to megacorps using it at scale.

yeah my dog really has trouble with the "jich" phoneme

Andrew Cuomo, looking like he's auditioning for an "undead" role in a movie

also "you look tired already" pretty rich coming from a guy who looks like this and who already got the shit beat out of him in round 1

"son of Mario"? meh. wake me up when the son of Luigi is running for mayor

the text :smuggo: and underneath is a Y2K era web forum emoticon with thick eyebrows and an incredibly smug smirk

the emoji people need to comb through old web forums smileys to fill enormous gaps

for instance there is not a single emoji that captures the mood of :smuggo:

It's a high bar but "having bad political opinions prevents you from partying in college" has to be one of the most insane ideas I've ever heard from the reactionary centrist crowd.

personally I think Andrew Cuomo should give his apartment back to the person who really needed it: his adult daughter whom he turfed out of an $8000+/month midtown Manhattan apt bc he actually lives in Westchester but needed to claim residency for psychosexual reasons (running for mayor)

ah see that's an understandable mistake, as in British English our residents are usually referred to as "Marseholes"

Prompt: How many R's are in the word raspberry? ChatGPT said: The word raspberry has 2 R's.

meanwhile in berry letter counts:

Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, one of the world's biggest by circulation, is suing U.S.-based AI firm Perplexity for allegedly "free-riding" on its content on its search engine. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2...

Almost quitting time at the post factory.

Any update on how many R's "blueberry" has?

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We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

it's easy to forget Bush Sr, since he came right after Clinton's 100-year reign

look, i *do* have a phd and i could not reproduce Goorge W. Bush nearly so accurately

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this:

I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public

shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

I Voted for Ivo Robotnik to Lower the Cost of Eggs, Not Steal My Chaos Emeralds When Dr. Eggman announced his candidacy for President, I was thrilled to see someone finally standing up to the political elite and promising to implement…

I Voted for Ivo Robotnik to Lower the Cost of Eggs, Not Steal My Chaos Emeralds

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Curious Goorge.

especially Doritos, which are like industrially engineered to be as crunchy as possible

do you have a rec? i need a new couple thermostats sometime soon

some crispy nachos arranged artfully in a cardboard tray, vibrantly colored and looking perky

a sad sludge of cheese and carbohydrate mush with vegetables that appear long past fresh, all stuck to the bottom of a box

i love a good comparison between fast-food product marketing photos and what the actual product looks like

(Subway "Footlong Nachos", because apparently they ran out of ideas.)