Is this sarcasm similar to the quote "Everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot and everyone faster is a maniac"

Respectfully, as this is HN, I do not believe that is the purpose of the posted Github repository.

I was previously a long term dev contractor for a stock photography company. NFTs have function in the ownership of digital assets, though I do not personally advocate for them (the company or the use of NFTs).

Per a cursory question on the Goog I got: 95% of collections are now considered worthless.

I worked at a blockchain startup back in the day and despite the PTSD of working with insane people, I appreciate the concept of the blockchain. I've yet to see any mainstream value in it. Sure bitcoin is worth a lot but it's not because of the inherent value of blockchain finance, it's because there's too much money out there and everybody loves a fat bubble asset.

I never got what would blockchain do better except maybe distribution. And even there raise questions of efficiency of having data copied in a lot of places.

Correcting data is also always fun question. Your keys are stolen, now your house is not yours anymore as record is immutable. Oh it is not actually immutable if someone says it is not (replace it with new record )? What was the point again...

The appeal to me is that it is effectively a "serverless" shared immutable ledger. By "serverless" I mean that not a service behind someone's API that one just has to trust the data emitted.

I think it could be useful for contracts and governance but the whole crypto thing is just pointless (except ostensibly for cases of transferring money), which is helpful as a tool but as an investment just strikes me as nuts. Which is why I prudently said hell no to buying bitcoin at $20 because it was a stupid fad. Sigh.

Respectfully, I am starting to find "AI will become only better in the future" to be a cheap and empty statement. Optimism is good but it does not take into consideration the tremendous nuance of the topic and current thread.

Far as AI gen images they still make me nauseous due to uncanny-valley stuff. Still see a lot of non-standard number of fingers; so much content elicits a weird double-take and gut dropping feel.

Are there energy consumption differences between CGI and AI?

We also need to take into account, that CGI only consumes energy when the actual creation of particular video happens.

"AI" consumes energy before user even started (during training).

That is on top of comparison for each particular case.

Right idea, but the application is incorrect.

Model training is similar to the creation of the cgi for the movie. Both happen before anyone consumes the output, and represent the up front cost for the producer.

Both a movie and a language model can cost tens or hundreds of dollars to produce.

In both cases additional infrastructure is needed for efficient usage: movie theaters or streaming platforms for movies, and data centers with the GPUs for LLMs. This is also upfront (capex) costs.

At consumption time, the movie requires some additional resources, per viewing, whether it's a movie theater or streaming. Likewise, an llm consumes some resources at inference time. These are opex. In both cases, the marginal cost for inference/consumption is quite low.

  > Model training is similar to the creation of the cgi for the movie. Both happen before anyone consumes the output

I did not say anything about consumption of the output. Maybe you misread what I wrote, it is about energy consumption.

  > Both a movie and a language model can cost

But we weren't comparing cost of the movie to cost of a language model

  > can cost tens or hundreds of dollars

But we weren't talking about dollars, we were talking about energy.

We're clearly exploring different questions.

And that energy costs money, both at the training/cgi stage and at the inference/consumption stage. It's not even an externality.

CGI renders do use a lot of electricity relative to playing back the movie for individual viewers. It's perfectly analogous.

  > CGI renders do use a lot of electricity relative to playing back the movie for individual viewers. It's perfectly analogous.

I've literally laughed at loud after reading this.

I can't believe you're stretching this in a good faith.

But if you are - well, you're certainly have a unique perspective.

Reminds some of something a friend said towards the end of college: “it’s only like 12 thousand dollars a year to learn everything there is to know”

Take it with a grain of salt..

I get the punchline here but is there possibly some sort of Streisand effect where real people now are more inclined to use an em dash?

I think people are now less inclined to use an em dash, because they don’t want to be mistaken for an LLM.

Per the address and contact number at bottom did the (415) area code formerly encompass Palo Alto?

I've been using Waterfox the past month or two and it's great.