Do you think there is a legal basis for war crimes or crimes against humanity?
Do you think there is a legal basis for war crimes or crimes against humanity?
@50501movement.bsky.social Eureka CA
Just curious Tom, I don't think I've seen you weigh in on "the Palestinian question", i.e., treatment of the Palestinians since 1947-48. What do you think the answer is vis-a-vis US policy.
It's because you're doing the great work.
We're all guilty.
I've just experienced this. You get these hyperbolic, Chest thumping, argumentative, even insulting responses, and you go wait, if you read my post immediately above the one you responded to it might address your concern.
I will just ask what choices you are making that are harmful to the environment but you do them because it makes your life easier? I'm sure you're very clear about that...
I would disagree with Prof Cottom in the sense that it is not that it is mid or ripping off the intellectual workers. It is the same as any other technology today in that it is driven by capitalism and war making. That is the fundamental issue we should be dealing with. The genesis of technology.
I would disagree with Prof Cottom in the sense that it is not that it is mid or ripping off the intellectual workers. It is the same as any other technology today in that it is driven by capitalism and war making. That is the fundamental issue we should be dealing with. The genesis of technology.
You can choose to not support the genocide. You just don't like t the consequences. Also don't drive your car, don't heat your home, don't use any electricity and don't put anything in the landfill.
Where I see evil is in my complicity as an American taxpayer in the genocide in Gaza.
I wasn't going to answer this because frankly, I don't care for your tone. But if you are in corporate world, your company is there for one reason. Given that is the case, if a tool confers a competitive advantage then it is not in the interest of your masters to not use it.
*open source
Still have to do that. But yes I'm aware. I think the gaps in the training corpus are where the human interaction occurs. And the HW/SW are i play in are all item source anyway. So yes humans are the source and the ultimate go to.
Could I do it without it? Yes, it would just take me a lot longer. Is it worth it? I think that question will be answered ultimately by whether the externalities are built into the price. Right now they are not.
The LLM is often wrong or writes buggy code. But stepping through it with a debugger gives me a good sense of what it is supposed to do. It still takes time and effort. However I still think it is a "hit the ground running" kind of start rather than self bootstrap. It's an assistant.
I'm using the LLM to write V1 of the code which i then debug. It's in C which i know. What i don't know is the sdk for this system (raspberry pi pico). Having to make it run is how i learn. Your still have to learn it you can just learn by doing. That's the value for me.
Bravo. You're doing good work. Thank you.
Less. Maybe 5-10. But yes. This is me and another person doing the development and we want it to be a cheap as possible. I used the LLM to get the two devices talking to each other and to get the power management sorted. I don't have the coding chops to write the code from scratch. But i can debug
Ah ok. Yes for the water company each meter has a Raspberry pi pico that reads the switch closure on the meter and counts gallons. It wakes up periodically and communicates with another pico that is on s meshtastic lora network. We are installing the devices and setting up the network.
That is what bothers me.
No the utility meters were not involved. We stood up an OpenADR system that broadcast the prices and collected power consumption from home batteries and EVs. We also had a bidirectional V2G charger on the program. These were billed separately from the primary meter.
No I forgot how to code. Goodbye
We used the power monitoring on the device as a sub meter
OpenADR
Actually I'm retired and these projects are my attempts at community service. But yes I'm trying work through things in an honest way and being subjected to gratuitous attacks isn't helpful. Good day.
Actually this was deployed in a utility.
That wasn't the case with me but I'm a shitty programmer.
The bot was useful to get prototypes up and running in a fraction of the time. I don't need the bot to tell me these are good ideas. I wouldn't have spent any time on them otherwise. BTW I'm amazed at the harshness of these replies This is why I got off Twitter!
Ha OK. I was going to stop but here you go. I used an LLM so far on two projects. One is a super low cost energy price responsive load management system for residential applications that could potentially be given away. The other is an automated meter reading system for our neighborhood water co.
Thank you for your perspective.i wrestle with these questions and your thinking has been very helpful. ❤️
Disagree Innovating is in the concept, not how it is done. I describe a set of requirements and i get input in how I might implement it. There is nothing different in this process because I'm using an LLM. It's just faster.
Not asking for justification but whatever. Thanks for your thoughts.
Don't disagree. But again my point is whether the costs of LLMs in this context outweigh the benefits of accelerating innovation?
I prefer it because it saves time. I don't give a shit about whether it sounds human. In fact I find that annoying. My original point was that they can serve to foster innovation. And that has been good for society. The environmental cost does trouble me.
I'm only saying it's useful in the innovation process. Whether I enjoy it is something else. (I do). But another thing is that I would be searching online resources for answers to my questions anyway. Is the LLM in this context different than that process?
To the extent that llms can provide easy access to the online knowledge of different technologies they can benefit the individual innovator. That's just my experience but I'm going to guess that corporate dev teams are experiencing the same thing.
I don't fundamentally disagree with a lot of this, especially the environmental cost/ benefit. I'll just offer that as a maker,tinkerer,experimenter, having access to a LLM has massively decreased the time required to design build and debug relatively sophisticated hw/sw prototypes.
Donnie n Pooti sittin in a tree! K-i-s-s-i-n-g! First comes love then comes marriage. Then comes Donnie in the baby carriage! Ahh that felt good.
I am so glad that there is a politician ready to meet Trump at the third grade insult level. I think it's brilliant. Just fucking make fun of him and mock his stupidity.
Approaching physical limits of size of transistors. Quantum computing unreliable. Power limits on further advancement in AI. AND EVERYONE IS TO BUSY DIDDLING THEMSELVES ON THEIR PHONES TO CARE ABOUT ANYTHING.
Blooming is an expletive intended to emphasize "absolutely". Nother is a meaningless nonsense word.
Ummmm, no. Look at the difference in meaning between "another thing" and "an other thing". When one says "a whole nother thing" which of these do you mean? I submit that what is meant is "a whole other thing". Another way to say would be "that's another thing entirely".
Can you give me an example of where nother is used beside the phrase in question? But from your definition it has to be a word that is inserted. So the question of whether " nother" is a word is germane.
But is nother a word?
Why not just say "a whole other thing?" And for tmesis to be legit, it has to be a word doesn't it? Nother doesn't qualify. And thanks for introducing me to tmesis!
Sorry I'm a boomer. I don't understand millennial humor. And it's my birthday so there. Nyah
A whole another thing???
Also it's not a myriad of things. It's myriad things.
There is no such word as nother ..."whole nother thing"
BTW really enjoy your posts about the land.
Totally with you. Love and respect for nature I think would solve a lot of problems...
Catherine quit WaPo
I wonder why no one asks him how he knows the numbers are wrong? Where does he get the right numbers? Or is it just obvious that he makes up numbers?
A person in a job is worth $1 to him I guess
Congrats on the new family member. Hope mom and baby are doing great.
The usual suspects...Christy, Curry, Mckittrick, Spencer what a surprise! www.energy.gov/articles/dep...
This is just beyond the pale. amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....
I mean what was the ostensible purpose of the trip vs how did he spend his time while he was there. Was it personal time he spent promoting his business or was it on behalf of the american people? @daveweigel.bsky.social
@gregsargent.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Can anyone explain to me why they're isn't more examination in the media about the ethics of trumps to to Scotland? It seems to me that it was solely for the purpose of promoting his business. The ribbon cutting seemed particularly egregious use of taxpayer dollars for purely self enrichment.
Oh no! We can't lose you! Don't disappear!
She seems pretty wonderful.
Carla. I miss her.
And a side of bacon hiding in the back. A complete gastronomic sensation.
Having the family's only screen be a black and white TV where you had to adjust the rabbit ears and change the channel with a knob. And going through the noise and static between the two or three channels you could get
Murderbot Diaries or The Expanse series. Some of the best sci fi I've read recently.
The main arguments the advocates have are: once it's running it's very cheap and reliable. But to make this work you have to really constrain the definitions of cheap and reliable. Oh also, it's safe🤔
Did he have tears streaming down his face? 🤣 Never thought I'd hear a sir story from you!
Kabuki theater by the Republicans. Was there ever any doubt?
Same as it ever was
Zionism is the belief that if you are Jewish, you are entitled to land someone else owns, if they are not Jewish. That is racism and if you have let the Eretz Israel propagandists obscure that in your mind...
I lost all respect for Goldman when he started publicly and adamantly insisting that opposing Zionism was antisemitic.
He's going to sell those hats
I hate to see people fighting because of their color. And blatant racism on display. But it was pretty clear who was in the wrong here.
Thanks. I thought I recognized the scene. Horrible.
Is this an actual event? It looks familiar. (I mean a depiction of an actual event...)
Exactly
Not too mention selling off 258 million acres of public land.
Wouldn't this require a repeal of the statute that was used to protect these lands?
Eureka ca
Are we certain that doge employees are subject to oversight in terms of handling the data once they have access to it?
The Chess Catechism. Lays it out. What i found is that if you want to be good you have to memorize a bunch of openings, middles and ends so you can recognize them and not make a stupid mistake. Also you have to study the classic games.
If the us suspended all aid to Israel, that would be a big problem for them in continuing to commit genocide in Gaza and the west bank.
Not only enable but encourage. We, the American people, are complicit in genocide.
I agree with Eric. Acceptance of this gift is a violation of the Emoluments Clause rather than a bribe. But IANAL...
I guess it was naive to trust the institutions and norms. We'll never be able to do that again...
What Idon't understand is how we (the US) went so wrong that one guy has this much power. It wasn't ever supposed to be like this
Now just need to allow ratepayers to access an hourly rate... keep up the good work you're doing great stuff!
Just for giggles (I'm retired so should know better) I ginned up a price server that gets the day ahead price from caiso. It sends via OpenADR 3.0 to a 3.0 VEN that is running on a Raspberry pi Pico W ($6). The pico serves a web page w/prices and talks to a Zigbee coordinator ($13). Cheap!
I was thinking perhaps some storage, not whole house just for the purpose of load shifting critical load in response to price. Your solution minimizes peak load. Shifting it could add revenue.... assuming you have an hourly or even more granular rate!
Excellent work. Very focused and creative solution to big problem. I would suggest looking at how you would layer in price responsiveness to improve cost effectiveness of electrification for homeowner. A battery would go a long way here, maybe for selected loads.
*rating
I know there are vendors that say they can associate a marginal cost of transformer replacement with percentage of time operated near peak trading. Do you buy that?
Didn't know that, Thanks. So failure of these components is the problem?
I think if you routinely operate outside the transformer ratings I would think that temp would be a problem. The utility i worked for was pretty careful about that. Transformers are expensive. That being said they dont last forever either. Once you get outside the warrantee period...
*cooled
We're talking about oil cooked transformers though. I don't think they have paper in them, do they?
