I do this here, minus the air/water heat exchange.
Selling 1kW of GPU easily covers ~$0.12/kWh. This is a decent chunk of my heating budget. I heat with electric, so I'm burning the electrons anyway - might as well make them do some productive work before they return to ground potential.
If trends continue I'll add another 500-750W of cards.
The mining and profit covered my heating bill for last winter. It isn't making money, per se, but losing less.
The tax system is biased towards those who risk capital.
This will remove one of the only and best options for upward class mobility. This is a real problem when combined with the joke standards for public STEM education, the other real way out/up.
People spend billions on alternatives to glasses. Hell they cut their eyes up so they don't have to deal with glasses and pay thousands of dollars for the procedures. I'm saving for implantable lenses..
Nobody will buy smart glasses. They are stupid.
There is no mass market application. None.
Stop wasting money!
Until these things can go on a lens that is implanted or contact, there isn't any compelling reason for the added hassle over a smartphone.
I have been looking at the Surface for awhile. It looked OK.
Then I got one at work to replace my aging Dell Latitude. (Surface Pro 4)
The keyboard is junk. It's flimsy and moves when you type on it; the trackpad, which is required if you're using it as a computer (which I have to) is very narrow in depth and is difficult to use when compounded by the fact everything flexes when you use it.
Using this device on anything but a flat table or desk is right out.
Also, it's covered in Microfiber. WTF. This stuff attracts lint, dust, and pet hair like nobody's business and I shudder to think how grimy it's going to be in a year or so.
In short, Microsoft turned what looked like an OK tablet into a horrible computer.
Space may be worse, but it's not space that will kill us. There are no other humans in space. Over half of the population are essentially living like cavemen; eventually we'll set off a major nuclear conflict or some other catastrophe.
Ark-B jokes aside, that's what Hawking is getting at.
Eventually we'll do ourselves in here; living someplace else too means we can can come back when everything stops glowing.
I recommend IT as a last option to anyone anymore unless you've got the acumen to work for yourself.
If you're smart enough to make it in IT you can do something else.. and I'd recommend protected trades (electrician, plumbing, HVAC.. there's even a massive shortage of elevator techs - google it) over going into computing services.
IT workers need a proper union or trade protection. The older I get the more that becomes very clear.
I sent my genome to a server in eastern europe to get a detailed health report because the FDA won't let 23andme present all of the information. Doctors are actively fighting this democratization of information. Fuck them.
AI and machine learning have done a better job at diagnosis than humans for decades, but aren't widely used. WHY?
Fuck the system. I will get the images, and the data - or sensors that I own will - and they will be processed outside of the reach of the FDA.
Procedures? Medical tourism is a thing.
Nobody has a more strongly vested interest in me being alive than..me.
The internet is coming for medicine, the same way it came for software "sales", music, movies, and retail.
Times change. A quick purvey of the internet demonstrates women are posting a lot more than naked selfies up - for free - largely in exchange for instant validation.
There's so much amateur porn out there now that it is likely social norms and acceptance are rapidly being biased.
Chances are nobody cares WHAT you post online anymore.
It's driving massive interest and adoption of VPN technology, encryption, and general awareness of what your options are to maintain privacy online.
In a hilarious twist, most of the VPN technologies also cause huge headaches for firms targetting and deliverty ads, too - thus likely costing them money.
Humble homes available well under $100k CDN, some for less than $50k CDN.....all with gigabit fiber to the home, 5 minutes no traffic to an airport with direct flights to Toronto. (2h 30m).
Enjoy the cities. I'm living the good life. You can too, if you can work remotely in Canada!
Companies that inspire turnover but are otherwise stable collect cruft from employees who are competent enough to not be fired, through whatever means, but not talented or crafty enough to have options.
Short term this bloats the organization, as more people are required to accomplish the same tasks, but long term, limits the ability of the company to do anything or change tactics - gaining more and more inertial mass.
This is just a perturbation that moves IBM along that chain.
I accepted a job offer from IBM in the 90's after going through their lengthy and involved interview process.I didn't make it to my first day as the reams of paperwork I had to fill out before ever setting foot in the door were terrifying.
You can fight change or embrace it. IBM's competitors will be more agile. It's pretty clear that the future will be dominated by distributed teams with the absolute best people for the problem set working on it, almost certainly in a remote fashion. I'm writing on a computer's who's operating system was done in just sort of a fashion...
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People are very bad at large numbers.
Plants are very efficient at taking co2 out of the atmosphere. That's where it all came from to begin with.
What is the average size of a hardwood tree in North America, in a temperate range?
How many hardwood trees are there in North America?
What is the average growth, in kg, of a hardwood tree?
How do those numbers compare with the reduction needed?
That is useful information. Your approach is not.
away.
Shit, I'm old. Hah.
C, Ethernet, and RS232/485 will be with us long after humanity has gone extinct. Possibly after the heat death of this universe.
There should be a name for technologies that achieve that level of entrenchment.
I do this here, minus the air/water heat exchange.
Selling 1kW of GPU easily covers ~$0.12/kWh. This is a decent chunk of my heating budget. I heat with electric, so I'm burning the electrons anyway - might as well make them do some productive work before they return to ground potential.
If trends continue I'll add another 500-750W of cards.
The mining and profit covered my heating bill for last winter. It isn't making money, per se, but losing less.
How much energy is spent by nation states on military spending backing up fiat currencies? ...just sayin'
As someone who's been an entrepreneur his whole life, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Operating your own business is the best way to have control over your life, and it represents the bulk of the economy. Small business.
Those rules benefit the uber rich, but they also benefit the guy down the street with the delivery truck business.
The tax system is biased towards those who risk capital.
This will remove one of the only and best options for upward class mobility. This is a real problem when combined with the joke standards for public STEM education, the other real way out/up.
Interesting times.
People spend billions on alternatives to glasses. Hell they cut their eyes up so they don't have to deal with glasses and pay thousands of dollars for the procedures. I'm saving for implantable lenses..
Nobody will buy smart glasses. They are stupid.
There is no mass market application. None.
Stop wasting money!
Until these things can go on a lens that is implanted or contact, there isn't any compelling reason for the added hassle over a smartphone.
Sigh
People are missng the obvious answer to this.
http://brighterbrains.org/arti...
We don't go out, because as others have noticed, the Universe is too big.
What is much more likely is we advance technology to the point where everything is much more efficiently packed.
At which point very strange things happen with time.
http://brighterbrains.org/arti...
That's a good introduction, and my guess is they're probably correct.
I work for the government. They buy these things in the hundreds of thousands. Bathtub or not it's Surfaces all the way down.
I had to get a mouse and an external keyboard to write on it. That's pretty bad.
I have been looking at the Surface for awhile. It looked OK.
Then I got one at work to replace my aging Dell Latitude. (Surface Pro 4)
The keyboard is junk. It's flimsy and moves when you type on it; the trackpad, which is required if you're using it as a computer (which I have to) is very narrow in depth and is difficult to use when compounded by the fact everything flexes when you use it.
Using this device on anything but a flat table or desk is right out.
Also, it's covered in Microfiber. WTF. This stuff attracts lint, dust, and pet hair like nobody's business and I shudder to think how grimy it's going to be in a year or so.
In short, Microsoft turned what looked like an OK tablet into a horrible computer.
That I'm stuck with.
Maybe for years.
Sigh.
Space may be worse, but it's not space that will kill us. There are no other humans in space. Over half of the population are essentially living like cavemen; eventually we'll set off a major nuclear conflict or some other catastrophe.
Ark-B jokes aside, that's what Hawking is getting at.
Eventually we'll do ourselves in here; living someplace else too means we can can come back when everything stops glowing.
That's what Hawking is getting at.
I recommend IT as a last option to anyone anymore unless you've got the acumen to work for yourself.
If you're smart enough to make it in IT you can do something else.. and I'd recommend protected trades (electrician, plumbing, HVAC.. there's even a massive shortage of elevator techs - google it) over going into computing services.
IT workers need a proper union or trade protection. The older I get the more that becomes very clear.
My $0.02.
Everytime oil, coal, and uranium test new lows, I buy, buy, buy.
We'll see who's laughing in 5 or 10 years.
Promethease, by the SNPedia guys. I'm not that worried about my dataset. I'm not that special, neither are you.
The current situtation in healthcare is stupid.
I sent my genome to a server in eastern europe to get a detailed health report because the FDA won't let 23andme present all of the information. Doctors are actively fighting this democratization of information. Fuck them.
AI and machine learning have done a better job at diagnosis than humans for decades, but aren't widely used. WHY?
Fuck the system. I will get the images, and the data - or sensors that I own will - and they will be processed outside of the reach of the FDA.
Procedures? Medical tourism is a thing.
Nobody has a more strongly vested interest in me being alive than..me.
The internet is coming for medicine, the same way it came for software "sales", music, movies, and retail.
What a time to be alive!
Times change. A quick purvey of the internet demonstrates women are posting a lot more than naked selfies up - for free - largely in exchange for instant validation.
There's so much amateur porn out there now that it is likely social norms and acceptance are rapidly being biased.
Chances are nobody cares WHAT you post online anymore.
Is it really that dangerous?
Ladies? I see you're new here.
It's driving massive interest and adoption of VPN technology, encryption, and general awareness of what your options are to maintain privacy online.
In a hilarious twist, most of the VPN technologies also cause huge headaches for firms targetting and deliverty ads, too - thus likely costing them money.
It ain't all bad.
Humble homes available well under $100k CDN, some for less than $50k CDN.. ...all with gigabit fiber to the home, 5 minutes no traffic to an airport with direct flights to Toronto. (2h 30m).
Enjoy the cities. I'm living the good life. You can too, if you can work remotely in Canada!
If males are the submissive partner, there's no problem. When it's women, there's a problem. That's the "issue" here.
Companies that inspire turnover but are otherwise stable collect cruft from employees who are competent enough to not be fired, through whatever means, but not talented or crafty enough to have options.
Short term this bloats the organization, as more people are required to accomplish the same tasks, but long term, limits the ability of the company to do anything or change tactics - gaining more and more inertial mass.
This is just a perturbation that moves IBM along that chain.
I accepted a job offer from IBM in the 90's after going through their lengthy and involved interview process.I didn't make it to my first day as the reams of paperwork I had to fill out before ever setting foot in the door were terrifying.
You can fight change or embrace it. IBM's competitors will be more agile. It's pretty clear that the future will be dominated by distributed teams with the absolute best people for the problem set working on it, almost certainly in a remote fashion. I'm writing on a computer's who's operating system was done in just sort of a fashion...
The law lets you control entry and manage standards.
Law is a profession.. but the MBAs are trying.
Medicine is a profession. They know how to protect a gig.
Engineering (used to be) a profession. MBAs destroyed it.
Programming has no control over entry, standards, or base education requirements. It is not a profession.
My code is.. and was.. pretty bitching. You probably have some running in your computer now.
If you're smart enough to code you can do something else much more profitable - and retire sooner, or contribute on the side. It isn't worth it.