There’s Mono. I don’t know what portion of .NET compatibility issues that addresses in 2025.

Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported.

World models are hypothetical AI systems that some AI engineers expect to develop an internal “understanding” of the physical world by learning from video and spatial data rather than text alone.

Sounds reasonable.

That being said, I am willing to believe that an LLM could be part of an AGI. It might well be an efficient way to incorporate a lot of knowledge about the world. Wikipedia helps provide me with a lot of knowledge, for example, though I don’t have a direct brain link to it. It’s just that I don’t expect an AGI to be an LLM.

EDIT: Also, IIRC from past reading, Meta has separate groups aimed at near-term commercial products (and I can very much believe that there might be plenty of room for LLMs here) and aimed advanced AI. It’s not clear to me from the article whether he just wants more focus on advanced AI or whether he disagrees with an LLM focus in their afvanced AI group.

I do think that if you’re a company building a lot of parallel compute capacity now, that to make a return on that, you need to take advantage of existing or quite near-future stuff, even if it’s not AGI. Doesn’t make sense to build a lot of compute capacity, then spend fifteen years banging on research before you have something to utilize that capacity.

https://datacentremagazine.com/news/why-is-meta-investing-600bn-in-ai-data-centres

Meta reveals US$600bn plan to build AI data centres, expand energy projects and fund local programmes through 2028

So Meta probably cannot only be doing AGI work.

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https://lemmyverse.net/communities?nsfw=true

reposts

If you’re browsing “All” instead of “Subscribed” — I recommend building a subscription list of interest — there’s a bot, @bot@lemmit.online that mirrors posts to Reddit to communities on lemmit.online. You can either block the bot or block the instance if you don’t want that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people_in_Slovenia

According to the 2002 census, there were 3,246 Romani individuals living in Slovenia.[1] They constitute 0.5 percent of the total population.[2] The Slovenia Roma speak Balkan Romani and Italian.[3] The Roma have been living in Slovenia since the 15th century.[4]

So did they just now become a threat, or was it for the past six centuries too?

You can monitor instance downtime at:

https://lestat.org/

I mean, it’s easy to check whether a given instance is using CloudFlare.

$ host lemmy.world|head -n1
lemmy.world has address 104.26.9.209
$ whois 104.26.9.209|grep ^NetName
NetName:        CLOUDFLARENET
$

You can browse anonymously on any instance that permits doing so, so if you just want to browse during an outage, you can do that anywhere.

IMHO, having an account on a second Threadiverse instance isn’t necessarily a terrible idea, not just because of CloudFlare outages, but because instances do have outages for various reasons. I have an account on olio.cafe (PieFed, not on CloudFlare) and on lemmy.today (Lemmy, not on CloudFlare) because I wanted to try out PieFed, and I have fallen back to that to post before if lemmy.today has issues.

That being said, I didn’t intentionally try to avoid CloudFlare. I mean, they’re used by a lot of major sites, and I don’t expect them to have a lot of downtime. I mean, every Threadiverse instance has had downtime for some reason or another. I’ve had Internet outages, as well as electricity outages. Not all that common or usually an extended thing, but they happen.

Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.

So, there are a couple of reasons to use CloudFlare, but I suspect that the reason that a lot of people are doing so is to deal with DDoSes, which are hard to deal with otherwise.

Like, my home instance, lemmy.today, doesn’t use CloudFlare, so it isn’t affected by a CloudFlare outage. But…it was also knocked offline for a few days about a month back by a DDoS.

A lot of major sites do depend on CloudFlare, so they probably aren’t going to have a horrendous amount of downtime — like, any issue that comes up is probably gonna have a lot of engineers banging on it pretty quickly.

It’s back up now.

Just keep in mind that the long run trend for storage prices is pretty strongly downwards; that’s a log-scale graph.

The cases of old ones are on eBay, as I mention in another comment.

And it looks like someone has made ATX mounting kits.

https://thelaserhive.com/product/mac-pro-atx-kit-with-psu-mount/

Good point!

I admit I’m using my 1,1 as an extra seat in the office, but it’s form of use.

And I bought it back in 2006

Looks like non-functional 2006 Mac Pros are on eBay for $60. Cheaper than an office chair!

but Project Prometheus has already hired 100 employees, poaching several from firms like OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according to the Times.

I think that one problem with all this spending is that there are only so many people with relevant experience in the area. If wages are high enough, the market will send more over time, but that isn’t instantaneous.

the Lunar Lake option is a high perf single core CPU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lake

According to this, all Lunar Lake CPUs have 4 performance and 4 economy cores; none have a single core.

I will carry around a huge power bank before I buy a laptop with soldered RAM.

I carry a ~300 Wh power bank with my laptop.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D62PMB3R

They also have a less-elaborate, smaller, lighter, less-expensive ~200 Wh model that’s probably more actually-practical:

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Portable-Generator-Traveling-Emergencies/dp/B0D62P85ZR

Note that you can’t take anything over 100 Wh on a flight in the US. I also have a 100 Wh power bank that I keep around for flights.

At this juncture, I would like to point out that the display name of OP is “Billy472”, but that his actual account name is “Vova@lemmy.sdf.org”, which is a Russian short form of “Vladimir”.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/Vova

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir

Vladimir (Russian: Влади́мир, Bulgarian: Владими́р, pre-1918 orthography: Владиміръ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings.

In Russian, shortened and endeared versions of the name are Volodya (and variants with diminutive suffixes: Volod’ka, Volodyen’ka, Volodechka etc.), Vova (and diminutives: Vovka, Vovochka, etc.), Vovchik, Vovan.

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I dunno how much power those things draw,

https://homegrail.com/how-many-watts-does-a-cpap-use/

Most CPAP machines range from 30–60 watts, with some using up to 150 watts. If you are using rechargeable batteries to charge your machine, you need to be aware of the power required to run it so your CPAP machine won’t shut down in the middle of the night.

UPC designed for a desktop computer

I wasn’t really aware of this until a few years ago, but UPSes aren’t really generally designed to keep computers running through power outages. Even today, most still have lead-acid batteries (which have limited energy density and don’t deal well with being deeply discharged many times).

They were really designed to solve two problems:

• In a power outage, being able to shut a computer down cleanly. That means time to save documents and — back in the 1980s and 1990s — shut down cleanly, to avoid filesystem corruption, when commonly-used filesystems could become corrupt through not shutting down cleanly. They also often came with functionality to automatically shut down the computer cleanly when the UPS’s battery was getting low, if a human had not yet done so.

• If a generator that automatically comes online in an outage is present, keeping the computer running until the generate giving it time to come online.

This means that UPSes tend to have a pretty decent inverter, can put out a lot of power…but generally can’t store a whole lot of power. They also are guaranteed to come online quickly; I believe that it’s typically in under 20 ms, a blip that a computer power supply can handle.

To grab a random UPS:

https://www.amazon.com/APC-SmartConnect-Interactive-Uninterruptible-SMC1500C/dp/B077Y62GSJ

That runs $529. It has a 900W inverter.

It uses this battery, which is lead-acid 11Ah 12Vdc (so 132 Wh).

To grab a random power station of about the same price:

https://www.amazon.com/BLUETTI-Portable-Station-Generator-Off-grid/dp/B095Y6ZTR1

That’s $500, has an 800W inverter, but has 716Wh of battery storage, about 5.4 times what the UPS does. It also has an LiFePo4 battery, which will last a lot longer in terms of cycles and dealing with deep discharge than a lead-acid battery.