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  • Julien Delavande , an engineer at AI research firm Hugging Face , has developed a tool that shows in real time the power consumption of the chatbot generating

    gnnnnnngh

    this shit pisses me off so bad

    there’s actually quantifiable shit you can use across vendors[0]. there’s even some software[1] you can just slap in place and get some good free easy numbers with! these things are real! and are usable!

    ā€œmeasure the power consumption of the chatbot generatingā€

    I’m sorry you fucking what? just how exactly are you getting wattage out of openai? are you lovingly coaxing the model to lie to you about total flops spent?

    [0] - intel’s def been better on this for a while but leaving that aside for now…

    [1] - it’s very open source! (when I last looked there was no continual in-process sampling so you got hella at-observation sampling problems; but, y’know, can be dealt with)




  • exploitation-offshorer ā€œNick Huberā€ (@sweatystartup) finds that the leopards will, in fact, also eat his face. but still takes it as a fine opportunity to pitch his exploitation:

    screenshot of tweets, transcript below

    (I guess at least his account name is directionally accurate? indicates willingness to induce sweatshops…)

    tweet 1

    I was pro tariffs.

    Until about 30 of our clients at Somewhere dot com cancelled searches over the past three weeks. Hiring freezes all over the place.

    Hit me in the pocket book already.

    REMOVE TARIFFS.


    tweet 2

    By the way:

    If you want to hire folks internationally for 80% less than US employees, check out somewhere[.]com or send me a DM for a discount.