To address the question: "Where can I find open-source, local-only AI solutions?"

There is a vibrant online community called localllama dedicated to this very topic. Localllama is a great resource for individuals interested in running AI models locally without relying on cloud services. You can explore a variety of models and tools within this community.

One popular option is 'llama.cpp', a high-performance library for running large language models locally. 'llama.cpp' is designed to be efficient and can run on both CPUs and GPUs. For those who prefer a more comprehensive framework, the Hugging Face Transformers library is another excellent choice. It supports a wide range of models and provides extensive documentation and community support.

While a GPU is recommended for optimal performance and faster inference times, it is possible to run these models on a CPU. However, be prepared for significantly longer processing times if you choose to use a CPU.

You can block GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video. They are all for Google research tools doesn't block your site from being indexed for the search engine.

'Google-Extended' can be blocked in robots.txt to prevent the content being used for AI training.
If the block is present that then the contents will only be used to build the search index and not train Gemini.

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That's fine, but have they simulated multiple disasters happening at once? That's what messed up the Fukushima plant - earthquake, tsunami, flood, power outage, all at once.

This is strictly anecdotal, but in my 28 years of working in tech, two of the best network engineers I've worked with both majored in English. One of them ran a guerilla poetry group and has a deeper grasp of Active Directory than anyone else in the shop.

Gartner was hyping the Metaverse so much this year that people were talking about whether it was undisclosed sponsorship. Not surprised this was a failure. The Metaverse is a bunch of 40-50 year olds telling 20-30 year olds what they want (and Im in the 40-50 year old group).

Yeah, we were outdoor power centers and strip malls, the indoor guys had it a lot rougher as far as effectively retenanting their space, but again I really doubt they spent a nanosecond worrying about what the mall across town thought about them lowering the $/sq ft on their space if they could get a deal done to keep an anchor and keep the space alive.

I'm trading my time for money, WFH gives me the ultimate perk, 20% of my time spent for my employer back as the commute time is eliminated. All the free coffee and subsidized lunches they could offer are but a pittance in comparison.

That might be true in commercial real-estate but I can tell you from a decade of doing retail IT that it's got butkis to do with things in shopping centers, what other companies care about isn't even a whiff of a concern. They're focused on total profit for the portfolio and occupancy rates, you do whatever deals need to be done to keep the centers full even if you know that it's not going to be super advantageous at the end of the 10 year period because as long as you have the retailers coming to you for space you'll get them back when they need space to expand and the market is tight. Now for commercial this might be a fundamental shift in the market where occupancy is never going to rebound, but you take the one time hit to mark to market your portfolio and recapitalize to redevelop the property or sell it at firesale prices to the bottom feeders in the market. I mean if occupancy is that low you're probably going to get called on your loan covenants by the banks anyways at some point, so waiting for them to do it for you has to be worse than just biting the bullet and renting it out at whatever the true market value is.

180C is apparently the hottest we've managed to run a heat pump:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fammonia21.com%2Fnorwegia...
Not yet commercially viable and just demonstrated in a lab unit within the last few years, so probably 5 years from running a demo plant. Still, I can see running such a pump as the input to a thermal battery as being a great proof of concept use case, there's no critical load depending on the heat output being available 24x7 so any need to tinker, troubleshoot, or maintain the prototype can easily be accomplished.

The extra magnets align the charging coil and receiving coil to minimize power loss and heat generation, it's actually a useful feature that I wish had been in the original Qi standard.

Just like the original law called for micro-USB, if technology comes along and there's a new superior plug format that would make sense to use to supplant USB-C then there will be a new updated law passed. For the next decade or more I think USB-C will be fine for phones, 240W and 80Gbps is going to be enough for quite some time.

Look at productivity vs real wages and you'll realize that the "union nonsense" has been a long time coming. The top 1% have reaped almost all the gains for FAR too long and now that the baby boomers are retiring there's a labor squeeze and the working class realizes that there's a once in several generation chance to seize back some of the gains for themselves. I'm sure that will lead to some further automation, but that was going to happen anyways as the technology developed (ie I've never seen a management type say we shouldn't implement this automation because it might cause someone to lose their job, quite the opposite) so getting some wage concessions now while the capitalists don't have much choice is the obvious good move.

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