ShadowRam

Don’t put money towards any of the major sport franchises.

Want to see a game? go to a local lower level league.

NBA/NHL/NFL/etc … stop going and more importantly stop buying their merchandise.

Want to really stick it to them? Vote for a government that will properly tax the every living SHIT out of these mega franchises.

What are your thoughts on

Competitive rowing?

Competitive lumberjack competitions?

Car Racing? Sailing? Airplane Racing? (involving a piece of equipment)

1 person competitions like Golf?

1 on 1 sports like Tennis?

Maybe your issue isn’t the ‘competitive’ nature?

Maybe your issue isn’t the ‘sports’?

I suspect your beef is with the over the top American Sport Major Sport Leagues and how they are run.

No one is comparing efficiency of a PC as a heating device to a Heat Pump.

So I’m not sure why you felt the need to post this.

my gaming PC literally is a primary heat source in my cold office.

Correction…

they’re added retroactively as a result of the first court case

• all safety rules are written in blood

I’m not defending nVidia’s business practices at all.

My point is the ‘AI’ hype isn’t hype.

There’s real value added AI work being done outside of the ChatGPT LLM thing going on.

It’s not all hype.

nVidia has some SERIOUS R&D in the use of AI for the past 10 years.

But using AI in the graphic space… upscaling, downscaling, faking lighting, faking physics… This is all very useful in making videogames.

Then there was a leap in the way AI Image generation was done with the above hardware. And that opened up a whole new growing field.

It’s just some people took basic language models that have been around for 30 years and scaled them up with their hardware. And it was neat, and surprising some of the stuff a LLM would output. But not reliable.

And then suddenly a lot of layman’s got their hand on the LLM’s and thought it was the 2nd coming of Jesus, and started throwing big money at it… it will be surprise to no one who knows how these AI’s work that that big money isn’t going anywhere.

But those first two, is no hype. It’s a real viable use case for the AI, and money will be made there.