https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi

:D

I’ll see if i can find something specifically about what you are asking, but I would be surprised if anyone has taken the time to try to bounce WiFi. The wavelength might not be amenable to bouncing, as it is such a high frequency signal. If I recall correctly, there is a relatively narrow range of wavelength that will actually bounce back to earth off of the atmosphere.

edit: https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/activities/iono.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

Good catch, I add archive links to everything, but doing it by hand right now, so sometimes I miss them.

Sorry about that.

Planning on writing a script or something to handle archiving.

SNAFU, it’s all sus anymore

Ever heard of “taking a piss”? Apparently you really like drinking piss.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5702337

You’re right, there are NO valid opinions, my bad.

“An opinion is a judgment, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.”

It does today…

I am at a loss, you might have to explain that one to me - all I’ve got is either something was sus or Save Union Souls lol

However many years it takes for these LLM fools to wake up, hopefully they can find a way to laugh at themselves for thinking that it was cutting-edge to jam the internet into a fake jellyfish brain and calling it GPT. I haven’t looked recently, but I still haven’t seen anyone talking about neuroglial networks and how they will revolutionize the applications for AI.

There’s a big*** book, but apparently no public takers in the deep neural network space?

FoxtrotRomeo (edit: for real )

https://permacomputing.net

Energy consumption has a dark underbelly of rare earth mineral consumption that is often just swept under the rug of shiny new thing. Ooh.

permacompute or bust

All opinions are valid. Not all opinions contain facts. All opinions contain assholes.

Too big to fail.

That is a very valid and reasonable opinion, sorry to see it downvoted.

There will be strong disagreement with you, however, on the case that LLMs are a big enough resource hog to require outright banning for just that reason.

If you are looking for Big Tech hit boxes, try for things like writing laws that require all energy consumption in datacenters to be monitered and reported using established cross-disciplinary methods.

Or getting people to stop buying phones every year. Or banning disposable vapes.

From earth.org: “Data centres are typically considered black box compared to other industries reporting their carbon footprint; thus, while researchers have estimated emissions, there is no explicit figure documenting the total power used by ChatGPT. The rapid growth of the AI sector combined with limited transparency means that the total electricity use and carbon emissions attributed to AI are unknown, and major cloud providers are not providing the necessary information.”

How much energy do you think gets used by a computer that costs $700,000 per day to run?

https://earth.org/environmental-impact-chatgpt/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/chatgpt-cost-to-operate/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-are-booming-but-at-a-very-expensive-price.html