It’s not easy to quantify because you’re basically substituting or augmenting labor. How do you quantify an ROI on employees? You can look at profit of a project they’re hired to execute. But with AI, it’s mixed with the employees, so how do you distinguish the ROI of the two? With time, we might be able to make comparisons, but outside of very specific scenarios it’s difficult to quantify.

Everyone I’ve seen try has had negative actual ROI.

All the middle managers are afraid to say anything though, so go go go.

I’m surprised there is no broadband rollout or telecom network on there. I guess it’s hard to quantify the cost within a specific event?

Indeed. Or for that matter, electrification?

The economic hypothesis that has dominated the past hundred years is that economic growth is infinite because resources are infinite and (almost) free. We all know this is unrealistic and disconnected from our human condition.

Regarding "innovation", I agree with your idea. I even think that the major innovation will be to transpose models locally, using reduced infrastructures that will still be sufficient for the majority of use cases.

HPC is heavily skewed toward academia, and it doesn’t have a lot of overlap with compiler nerds. I think this explains it.

fyi, the entire domain is unavailable in the UK “due to the online safety act.”

Isn’t Apple paying Google billions of dollars to license these things? Surely they should make it easier to compile for their native engines…

I like how GitLab does this, with an SSH server that implements only a few commands for creating PATs, so you can authenticate with your SSH keys and create a short-lived PAT in one command.

I promise you they’re claiming taxes on the depreciation of that machine every year. If anything they’ll be upset you didn’t tell them sooner so they could have claimed more.

If you're a US employee being paid market wages, the cost of the Macbook is rather trivial compared to how much you cost the company, and how much it costs them for you to be not working. But some lower-level managers and employees don't seem to understand this.

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF THE PRICE FOR THE PARTS AND LABOR TO REPLACE A SINGLE, GENUINE, APPLE-BRAND, 2021, MACBOOK PRO KEYCAP?!?! CALL THE ACCOUNTANTS, WE WONT BE PAYING TAXES FOR A FEW YEARS!!!”

Wow, Trump’s job is harder than I thought.

This is the only evergreen bookmark that will always have the most up-to-date sources.

You can also find some interesting tools and scripts if you search some of the streaming domain names with GitHub code search.