Training GPT-3 (a model from 3 years ago) from scratch requires as much energy as is spent to raise two cows for meat.

Amusingly enough, the steam deck has made a lot of the state of this art get better. Usually if you mount the ISO and then tell Lutris to install it, it’ll work.

I still reserve the right to be astounded. One of my beta readers said I needed to add a disclaimer that this talk is satire, so I went through a few rounds to make the warning right. I guess we didn’t expect someone to get caught up in the title!

I’m astounded, I would have thought that putting an explanation that the article was satire would like…work. Should I have made it giant screaming red text?

Palworld. So much palworld.

No Man’s Sky, but they vastly redeemed themselves.

This is true with ARM in general. There’s no “standard Linux” to boot because every board needs its own device tree and set of core kernel modules for detecting important things like local storage. It’s fairly intractable due to how different the hardware is.

Pedantically, it’s not required, but it’s probably a good idea to make your life easier.