herodoturtle

Hi folks,

Seeing headlines recently of Altman's vision for users purchasing access to AI as a utility (the same way we pay for electricity).

Whilst I can appreciate the convenience of this, I'm not sure it would be a practical / affordable option in may parts of the world (in my case I'm specifically thinking of the African context, but I'm sure it applies elsewhere too).

What would it take to host and provide access to an "open source" AI for the benefit of the underprivileged?

I'm specifically wondering about the technical possibilities (open source LLMs?), and back-of-the-envelope calculations for hosting and computation.

There is going to be a real need for this in my part of the world, and myself and some others are working with a government think tank to help fund and ultimately drive this.

Thanks.

Need good ideas for plot...

I suspect the odds are low of an official sequel being produced.

But with this latest wave of jaw-dropping AI video gen, I imagine it’s possible to make a sequel to Hackers, featuring the same cast 30 years on.

Plot ideas anyone?

Hack the planet <3

Hi folks,

We’re building a benchmark tool in C to compare the speed of DML statements in assorted RDBMS vanilla installations (Postgres, MySQL, etc.).

We’re not doing anything fancy / scientific - it’s purely for internal learning purposes.

Are there any particular DML statements that we should include in our benchmark?

We’d welcome any tips or insights on this topic.

(As an aside, we plan to use clock_t for tracking CPU time, with long-running loops that span several hundred seconds). But of course we welcome advice on this too!

Thanks ^_^