bjorney

“one standard”

Retailers don’t bring in products unless they have reason to believe they can sell it.

and the NFL is nothing we care about.

The viewership numbers of a game that happens at lunch time says overwise

also for the environment, I would think. It saves a ton of useless traffic

GPT is worse and it’s not even close.

My PC can serve up a hundred requests per second running an HTTP server with a connected database with 200W power usage

It takes that same computer 30-60s to return a response from a 13B parameter model (WAY less power usage than GPT), while using 400W of power thanks to the GPU

Napkin math, the AI response uses about 10,000x more electricity

A server produces an amount of heat equivalent to it’s wattage.

A 500W server rack will produce 1/3rd the amount of heat as a 1500W space heater. If your rack draws 100W at idle, than that’s how much heat it produces. So if it’s cold outside you could spin up folding at home or some other thing to burn excess CPU cycles

As long as your server is inside your house it is offsetting the amount of heat your HVAC system needs to produce - granted it is also greatly increasing the amount of work your AC needs to do in the summer

There is a cricket farm in Quebec that heats it’s enclosures with Bitcoin mining rigs.

I used to run Plex on a 3b+ and it couldn’t handle transcoding at a reasonable quality - jellyfin would presumably be fine as long as whatever device you are streaming from can handle your native file format (my library was x265, so I had to use the Plex desktop app because Firefox doesn’t support x265 and required transcoding)

A lot of those places are right on the ocean, which dampens the extreme temperatures unless you are at higher elevations. Bergen (Norway) has way more mild winters than Toronto