Профиль

This means that the vast majority of AI use is not coming from individual queries to chatGPT and analogous products from other companies. It's coming from the much more energy-intensive agentic AI workflows at big corporations. And Mastroianni completely ignores agentic AI.

So if the figures in Mastroianni's column are correct, the entire world's chatGPT use could be served with 87 megawatts of electricity: this corresponds to a single data center.

"sending a prompt to ChatGPT is about as carbon-intensive as running a clothes dryer for a single second." For a 3kW dryer, that corresponds to 0.83 watt-hours per query. OpenAI says that worldwide, it serves 2.5 billion chatGPT queries per day: 2.1 GWh per day, or an average of 87 megawatts.

We can separate the art from the artist right after we separate the money from the hate-monger.

Also, what kind of beef you eat matters. Profit is driven almost entirely by solid muscle (steaks, roasts), so when you do eat beef, eating ground beef contributes far less to driving demand for raising cattle. As economists would say, consider the marginal impact of your consumption.

Glorification of combat, but also the human side of the losses and grief. Achilles's grief and rage over the death of Patroclus, but especially the whole last part, with Priam's quest to recover Hector's body and properly mourn him.

The Iliad has a huge amount of Trojan POV, and that's important unavoidable context for the Odyssey.

Also, he completely ignores AI agent workflows, which consume astronomically more energy than individual chatbot queries. A single data center, consuming a few hundred megawatts, could satisfy global demand for ChatGPT queries. The whole hyperscale, multigigawatt buildout is for agent workflows.

Only a petty hater would criticize my cinematic adaptation of Ulysses, which presents Leopold Bloom as an action hero who spends the film pursuing a mysterious man in a raincoat throughout Dublin in order to expose Buck Mulligan's espionage ring.

My understanding is that jot (from the Greek iota) is the lowercase letter i without the dot, and tittle is the dot.

I'm holding out for a rap battle.

Cue the opening line from Marx's "18th Brumaire"...

I can simultaneously love Nolan's Odyssey and Emily Wilson's critical review. I can appreciate a work of art and enjoy learning about its flaws. I can also enjoy exploring why someone else has different opinions to mine.

Only anecdotal, but I talked to a bunch of folks who lived in Bellevue and West Meade who loved the bus, but yeah, a lot love sitting alone in their car in bumper-to-bumper traffic on 70/Harding/West End.

I didn't get good data on transit use. Some anecdotal info included folks in the South and East who were reluctant to use transit because they didn't have safe places to wait for the bus (no sidewalks), & (especially women) felt unsafe walking home alone from isolated bus stops after dark.

I cannot emphasize enough of the importance of this point: the physical archive is not a digital file. And crucially, it CANNOT be a digital file. Doing research with physical samples from ecological collections requires physically analyzing them. You can't just take photos and call it a day.

Years ago, I did a study for Vanderbilt about how easily employees could commute by transit. Employees earning over $80k mostly lived west and had great bus access & could commute easily. Those earning under $40k mostly lived east, with terrible access to transit & commutes would be very hard.

Yeah. Wilson is very clear that she has no complaint with people liking the movie. Her essay is clearly about HER reaction. I can like the movie (I do) and also learn from what she didn't like.

bsky.app/profile/char...