Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "" video.

  1. I don't understand that part at the start with the cost of delete vs write. Both in CPU registers, RAM and disk (be it solid state or HDD), a delete IS a write. Going over the special case of SSDs which have multiple bits per cell and writing would mean writing all 4 bits, the delete vs write doesn't make sense to me. At least, not in the current compute landscape. And the "store the input so later you can simply switch, instead of delete" sounds like basic caching to me. For consumer hardware, we are both getting more effiecient and not. If you look at smartphones and laptops, it is inarguable that we're getting much more efficient. And in general staying in the same power envelope, though the highend desktop replacement laptops are indeed more power hungry that what was 10 years ago. On the desktop side... if we ignore a couple of generations from Intel (13th and 14th) then the CPUs I'd say are getting more efficient and also staying at a reasonable power draw, so same power envelope. Same for RAM and disks. It's the GPUs that are also more efficient, but have expanded, by quite a lot, the power envelope at mid and high end levels. But I would say that the raw hardware power is impressive. On the datacenter side, 30,000 tons of coal seems quite little. I expected something like 1 billion tons of coal. Funnily enough, a lot of electrity nowadays is consumed in AI. Feels like creating the problem in order to create the solution to me. Waaay too much desperate-ness in getting the AI upper hand is quite a clown show to me. I am expecting more and more regulations on AI as the data used is still highway robbery in most cases, and the energy used is just ludicrous, at least for the current and short-term future results. In the context of having to use less energy, so we can stop putting carbon into air. Lastly on the prebuilt power limits or something similar. I don't know of having such a law, neither in EU nor in Romania where I live. However I do know that there is one for TVs (and other household electronic appliances, if I'm not mistaken) which actually limits the highend TVs quite a lot. Which, frankly, is quite stypid to me. If I get an 85" TV, you expect it to consume the same as a 40" inch one ? Not to mention that maybe I'm fully powered by my own solar panels. Who are you to decide that I can't use 200 more Watts for my TV ? On this theoretical setup, it would generate literally 0 extra carbon. And what's worse, because of this st00pid law, now people are incentivised to buy from abroad, which is worse for energy used (using energy to ship from the other side of the world instead of local) and worse for the economy (EU manufacturers cannot compete as well as those in other countries). Anyway, rant off.
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  2. Ooooh, I thought it was low. Good to know!
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