SandbagTiara2816

joined 1 year ago

Heck yeah! Love me some pumped hydro

It is for sure a tricky question. Another comment pointed out that we may be coming at the topic from different directions. I’ll admit that the energy demands of AI make me nervous, when I consider how hard the transition to renewables already is without the added load, but I’m not familiar with work in that space to make AI training less energy intense. What options are being worked on?

(Other than SMR or betting on fusion)

Ah, that makes sense! Yeah, I’m out of my depth when it comes to how to train an AI model. I tend to leap into defense mode when intermittency of renewable energy comes up, because it’s very often an anti-renewables talking point, when we actually do have a lot of solutions for it.

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (7 children)

We already have a more elegant solution than training AI when solar arrays produce more electricity than the grid needs - batteries. It strikes me as a better option to save the energy for later use than to burn it off to train AI.

It’s what I use for work, and it is quite nice!

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As long as the insides work all right, I’m good! I’m into thrifting and visible mending, so something well-loved, but cheap, is right up my alley

Yep, I think it’s what I’ll be going with!

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It can be really helpful or harmful, depending on the context. I think there’s a ton of promise for psychedelics for mental health, but I get nervous about people taking them to self-medicate.

It’s one reason I’m more interested in psychedelic assisted therapy, because in my personal experience, while I did have some positive changes, I think I also didn’t interpret some of those new perspectives in an ultimately healthy way. In the end, I feel like I learned that I’m not mentally healthy enough to responsibly take psychedelics outside of a professional therapy program.

Fortunately I was able to do some genetic testing through my psychiatrist, and I was finally able to find an antidepressant that actually works with minimal side effects, after a lot of trial and error with stuff that I reacted really poorly to.

Does word soup come before or after word salad? You’re right though lol, I just copied the title directly from the article

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think there is something to that. You probably do need to be a sociopath in order to become a CEO like that, but I’d also buy that becoming wealthy, by any means, is probably going to change you and your worldview whether you like it or not

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 103 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Neat! I’ll probably try it out. Like it or not, short form video is really popular now, so this feels like a good thing to grow Pixelfed and the fediverse

My favorite edition!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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