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Comment · 2 days ago
It's impressive to see the battery capacity growing on ElectricityMaps over the years : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-CAL-CISO/yearly

But why is the utilization rate so low? It was barely 0.8% of electricity in California last year.

Edit: Got the answer, the batteries fire up around 6pm during the evening peak at around 9GW for ~25% of the total consumption. We would need approximately 5x more batteries and renewable power to move out of carbon-intensive production entirely.

Comment · 5 days ago
Since the robocall tsunami of the 2020s, people stopped answering phone calls entirely.

The same thing might happen to the entire internet.

Comment · 5 days ago
The "massive technological improvements" already happened.

Since the 1960s, the worker-to-retiree ratio halved indeed, but productivity went 4x.

Comment · 13 days ago
Impressive work. I wish they did it on Qwen3.5 though, because their beefed up Qwen3 8B is still way worse than Qwen3.5 9B.
Comment · 21 days ago
Has Google (or other adtech) ever been sued for this?

They do barely any due diligence and are basically distributing malware and badware at a massive scale without any consequences.

Comment · 1 month ago
Google shutting down it's public cache made it even worse.
Comment · 1 month ago
"I believe that AI could [...] usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom"

How exactly? So far AI has accelerated misinformation at scale and wealth concentration.

Comment · 1 month ago
Between this and Huggingface, when will any victim sue OpenAI for this ?
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I recommend Terrence Tao's commentary on such a proof : https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117219101339291693

Key quote : "Solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods [would be a] net negative for the progress of mathematics."

Comment · 1 month ago
Key quote : "Solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods [would be a] net negative for the progress of mathematics."
Comment · 1 month ago
@dang please can we add a [2014] to the title ?

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