How long have those stuffed animals been there and where did they come from?

Park wherever I guess

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Google released a report this morning with some measurements of their GenAI platforms' power consumption. It's unclear from the report what datacenter was being monitored to get these numbers and what the distributions of "power/query" look like. I would take this with a grain of salt.

Interview opportunity of a lifetime

"We'll fix the genAI problem with more genAI" feels a little empty but "prioritize using AI to support knowledge integrity" means what exactly?

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There was a bar in my college town that would fill any container with beer for $1 on a Wednesday night. Brought a pig-shaped watering can like the one shown here. Our group and some strangers all chanted "out the snout!" when someone would drink from it. Point is OP is correct

re: engineers' models of the mind/intelligence/nature often looking more like engineered systems than, uh, the mind

The Eye of the Master (Pasquinelli 2023)

Better screenshot

Thinking back to an interview when Mira Murati couldn't tell Joanna Stern whether or not OpenAI was using YouTube for video training data...
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Re: Google's quantum chip statement - Not sure how we're getting from A -> B here. Also, kind of a weird thing to include in an ostensibly serious company press release. blog.google/technology/r...