Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.

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  • Running LLMs do take a lot of power. Trying to run a very small model on my old laptop makes the fans go crazy and power draw must be high given that it gets very hot. Then when you get models with billions upon billions of parameters, you can see how it all adds up. Then you multiply these humongous models with millions of users, as well as consider all the energy required to cool all those servers (fans, pumps, etc).

    The biggest power draw in the AI industry is probably training the models, given that it’s quite literally going through the entire internet for every crumb of data and mixing it all together into coherent text and images. Then you see how power grids can be taken down by these power hungry data centers.







  • If the U.S. started the Great War Part III, it would probably be due to an invasion/takeover of a Russian-aligned country (e.g. Iran)

    If Russia began the third big one, it would probably be due to either a) invasion of another European country (e.g. Finland, the Baltics) or b) some huge scandal that may or may not be truthful where American/European/NATO/whatever spies are found in Russian soil, prompting a justification to declare war.

    If China were to start the war, it would almost certainly begin with either the hot topics of Taiwan or the South China Sea. I doubt the Chinese would risk a war for either though, and would only go in when the U.S. are distracted in some other war (e.g. if Trump goes in on Venezuela)

    edit: or it could be over natural resources. Again.