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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 7h

Farm work and AI are pretty tight, actually. Here's a weeder that's running 24 GPUs to process the camera data.

youtu.be/wYyW2mEgXDk?...

Introducing LaserWeeder G2 Product Line

YouTube video by Carbon Robotics

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 8h

Between the crucifixion and resurrection?

Is this a Weekend at Bernie's reboot?!

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 20h

First sentence breaks my brain.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed! The guy going from "girls on trampolines" to actually being a decent guy is huge.

Kinda mirrors my personal growth to some extent. Huge props to Jimmy Kimmel on this issue in general. Rock star.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed and it was kinda nice. We could be weirdos "in public" to some extent.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

vim: never quit

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

There is almost no way we didn't cross paths somewhere in the BBS scene back then. Wild times back then.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

If you had told me in 1998. when I graduated high school, that South Park and and Green Day would actually be a thing of some importance within politics come 2025 I would have thought you were nuts.

I still think its nuts but... *waves hands* shit happpens.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

It's not obfuscated. The limiting factor in data centers is getting enough power into them. Having a pile of A100's does you no good if you can't power them.

(Input wattage / PEU) * FLOPs/watt

There's your compute capacity. The PEU and FLOPs/watt will change over time. Input wattage doesn't.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

That's more or less the thought that runs through my own head constantly. I'm sorry.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't push it with what I do for work (pyspark largely) but for the FIRST robotics stuff it'll be incredibly helpful if we adopt a nogil runtime.

Desktop apps I write in Python would benefit from it but not much.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Old enough to watch Java to go from dog-ass performance into OMG enterprise worthy so I'm excited to see Python making strides here.

It's already the go-to for so many things and it's going to crunch down on even more without the GIL.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock performing at the Big Football Game wearing an American flag and looking like an absolute fool.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Watts are a measure of power.

HTH

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

Something I'm coming to realise: everybody talks about megawatts and gigawatts of data centers but there is no real consensus on what that means. Is it power? Is it compute?

Also: nobody can/will/wants to talk about what these things cost to run

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks were alive for the first airplane flight and the Moon landings.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

You never said it did.

I think we are very much in agreement and I apologize for any antagonistic comments on my part.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

... so I cashed in on my rep and contacts. I gave it a good go anonymous;I wanted to see what it was like, to some degree, for "kids" coming into industry.

Result: You gotta know somebody more than ever since 1990.

But you can "know somebody" through the internet now so not as bad.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

... it used to be if you put a job like that online you'd get 1,000 resumes total per slot. And "used to be" is 2021.

I couldn't rise to even interview level slinging out applications everywhere I was interested in. I've never seen rejection at that level anywhere in my career, even when young...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

I came back into the job market after 2 years out. Good luck getting through the initial resume review these days, even using AI. I mean, I'm looking at remote data engineering work so every single applicant can use AI tools, and it's remote. Literally 1,000 resumes a day per job are flying in...

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

And the story is the same this go around. Inhalers are using a chemical as a propellant bad for the environment. If it gets banned for use in them for environmental reasons generics are going to go away and the exact same drugs come back with new propellants, under patent, at higher costs.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

I wasn't clear. Albuterol didn't get better after the ban. The active is the same. There was no benefit to the patient other than no long exhaling an ozone depleting CFC. You couldn't measure a difference in a patient before or after the change.

Just costs 2x more when it went under patent again.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

That's a good approximation.

Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

It does when the original is illegal to produce. That's what happened with Albuterol.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

That would be 1959.

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Justin Buist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 2d

There's a company in France that'll pay part of your heating bill if you use their computing heaters. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ener...

Energy startup Hestiia wants to heat home with waste compute power

Devices will carry out workloads including 3D modelling and crypto mining

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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