I would suspect the physiological base of burnout is the depletion of mainly B vitamins in the brain. When you look at the Krebs cycle, the main energetic reaction in every cell, B vitamins play crucial role whether they act as catalysts of enzymes (B1, B2), provide electron transport (B2/B3 to FAD/NAD+) or are required by sub-processes of the cycle (B5, B7, B12). Being under constant stress is known to deplete B vitamins and at some point their lowered availability starts inhibiting higher cognitive tasks in favor of just survival. Diagnosing this is problematic as serum levels don't tell much about tissue levels.
Didn't Chinese scientists recently show a crazy success rate (~90%) of treating advanced Alzheimer/dementia by performing a microsurgery of the neck, allowing brain to dispose accumulated waste?
Nvidia just did what Intel/AMD should have done to threaten CUDA ecosystem - release a "cheap" 128GB local inference appliance/GPU. Well done Nvidia, and it looks bleak for any AI Intel/AMD efforts in the future.
I think you nailed it. Any basic SWOT analysis of NVidia’s position would surely have to consider something like this from a competitor - either Apple, who is already nibbling around the edges of this space, or AMD/Intel who could/should? be.
It’s obviously not guaranteed to go this route, but an LLM (or similar) on every desk and in every home is a plausible vision of the future.
That's a pity! CGTalk was the site where I first learned about Cg from Nvidia that later morphed into CUDA so unbeknownst to them, CGTalk was at the forefront of the AI by popularizing it.
Would that mean that we would need to exchange latent "embeddings" between various "reasoning" models for emulating thinking and an LLM will be just about converting to/from human language when interfacing with mere humans, at some point in the future?
No, this all happens inside the model. I suppose it’s possible that the hidden layers of one model could be sent to another model. But the second model would need to be trained to understand the meaning of the hidden layer’s outputs. You could accomplish that through fine tuning of the second model. It would be neat to see someone try this.
I am really glad we are finding new pieces of the puzzle of how our gut works and perhaps can someday understand their effect on immunity, neuro-degeneration, cancer etc. for which we now only have accidental findings.
Why would anyone outside some desperate eastern European countries want to join? EU is going down hard, since 2008 no meaningful GDP growth, flat salaries, no tech companies propelling growth, old population, all the while US and Chinese GDP is exploding. The only thing EU has is regulation and high taxes, everything else is deteriorating quickly and the rate of decline is accelerating. Barcelona, previously a jewel of Europe, now has as many homeless as LA in some areas.
> Barcelona, previously a jewel of Europe, now has as many homeless as LA in some areas.
Hmm, I doubt it, but let me spend 7 seconds to Google about it.
Ok, I just Googled: "Barcelona homelessness"
> In December 2023, Fundació Arrels, an organization that helps the homeless, reported that 1,384 people were living on the streets in Barcelona, the highest number ever recorded.
Then I Googled: "los angeles homelessness"
> The 2024 count estimated that the homeless population in Los Angeles County declined by 2.2% to 45,252.
Living on the streets is one very visible form of homelessness; your numbers are apples to oranges.
LA is also an order of magnitude bigger than Barcelona, so absolute numbers (even if carefully only tracking people sleeping rough) are a weird point of comparison.
So Barcelona homelessness is going up and Los Angeles homelessness is going down? The only reasonable conclusion must be that the homeless are relocating from Los Angeles to Barcelona. It is only a question of time then.
So you cherry pick one real-world observation, try to refute it and it makes the rest wonderland? EU is doing super great because you just scentifically proved that Barcelona can't be as bad as LA?
I said in some areas of Barcelona which is true. Now somebody did the Simpson's paradox using the whole data set instead of conditional data, leading to a different result.
No, but EU with all its social agenda is now imploding at unusual places that were once considered great places to live, inflation is doing its thing. In the US tech is considered the most important engine of the economy, EU wasted over a decade and lost its only competitive company that led one large sub-field of tech (Nokia). Pretending nothing is going on won't help the EU, sooner or later this will be apparent everywhere (with a chance a hot war with Russia collapses it quicker).
AMD decided not to release a high-end GPU this cycle so any investment into 7x00 or 6x00 is going to be wasted as Nvidia 5x00 is likely going to destroy any ROI from the older cards and AMD won't have an answer for at least two years, possibly never due to being non-existing in high-end consumer GPUs usable for compute.
No high-end consumer RDNA4 GPU this cycle. And it's only missing the very high-end model. So we'll still get at least a 7800xt equivalent and whatever CDNA MI models they come out with.
The market for the extreme high-end consumer is pretty small, so they're only missing out on clout.
The top-end RDNA4 GPU will have 16GB RAM. That's a massive regression compared to 7900XTX and performance-wise it should be at best at the 7900XTX level. We are discussing AMD cards for LLM inference where VRAM is arguably the most important aspect of a GPU and AMD just threw in the towel for this cycle.
