Posts by momo@social.linux.pizza
 (DIR) Post #B6v5nFJmwPOm30ybdw by momo@social.linux.pizza
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       Not sure if I have posted the event link here yet, but: In about one week I'm going to play a set at the Gulaschprogrammiernacht #GPN24 in Karlsruhe. https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24-lounge/talk/MCXXDV/I will be on stage next weeks saturday, 06.06. starting at 18:00 and uh, it will be the first time I officially play for 90min. I tried this a few times now and I start to feel comfortable with the idea.This is not final yet but I plan to come up with a Roland Tr-8S, a Roland Aira Compact T-8, a Korg NTS-3 Kaoss Pad multieffect device and a Sim'n Tonic Nome 1 (former Midronome) midi clock. I'm also going to put in my Zoom H1n recorder so that we have something to listen to later and if I have room left on my desk, I will also set up my Novation Circuit Tracks and the Roland Aira Compact S-1 to perform a Song or two from the Monotonic album, but that's only if there's room.The WOC stage is outside, next to the food tent, which means you don't need a ticket to see me. Just come to the ZKM. But if you want and you're lucky, there might be day passes left so that you could go watch hacker do hacky things, see a talk about hacky stuff or just enjoy a very large number of neurodivergent and friendly freaks being themselves. 🥰
       
 (DIR) Post #B7Z3m0f1A0ubqeGrE8 by momo@social.linux.pizza
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       I just had "the talk" with my 9yo. He came to me asking "Dad, why does AI use so much water just for generating one answer?"So I explained to him how LLM works, how GenAI came out of that and why AI is a marketing term and absolutely wrong in that context.Then I loaded GPT4All on my laptop and asked the thing what the result of 9+7 is. It took my poor laptop cpu 12 seconds to come up with an answer and another 12 seconds to generate the sentence with the answer. I showed him how fast kcalc (using the CPUs ALU functions) comes up with the answer for that specific question.And then I asked a followup question, which almost take 2 minutes to compute. I showed him how the previous question and its answer became part of the prompt which made the calculation longer more complicated just to emulate a dialoge.He noticed that my laptops CPU fan stepped up and started to roar to get rid of the core heat. Then I explained to him how AI datacenters solve all this ineffitiency by running millions of servers in parallel and how this generates so much heat that it "uses" cooling water by just boiling it until it vapourizes.I then explained the current business model and how the companies currently burn through their cash to be the last one standing on the market when everyone else dropped out or became bankrupt. What we user pay for using this and what we actually would have to (and in the future probably will) pay for this service.Needless to say, my kid is not a big fan now.