> ...actual water consumed by data centers is around 66 million gallons per day. By 2028, that’s estimated to rise by two to four times. This is a large amount of water when compared to the amount of water homes use, but it's not particularly large when compared to other large-scale industrial uses. 66 million gallons per day is about 6% of the water used by US golf courses, and it's about 3% of the water used to grow cotton in 2023.
It’s chilling how much changed in the last decade and then then from two decades ago.
It’s too nice, you can’t be mean anymore and it’s no longer to the point. Eternal summer forever. But pre 2010 comments really are before smartphones took over.
Been around for a long time indeed. I first learned literate programming in college at Tufts, from Norman Ramsey. He wrote noweb[1], an early implementation of Knuth's ideas.
One of my first software contributions was indexing and cross-references for noweb in plain TeX. I had thought it was completely lost to time and hard drives but it seems someone has actually kept it around! Bonkers.
(The username being `partingr` suggests it was some time late 92 to mid 95 whilst I was at cs.man.ac.uk)
I used something called nuweb for a class project back in the late 90's (an implementation of the "bully algorithm" in Java).
I don't remember why I selected nuweb, other than it worked with any language, but it looks like it was inspired by noweb. I had learned about literate programming from studying TeX.
Trump created huge delays and people I worked with that went on vacation were stuck in India. Lots of companies were put on notice for abusing H1B and legitimate candidates were impacted.
The issues was never the quantity, it’s been the quality. I believe companies like Deloitte had created corruption pipelines where money got you on the path to H1B.
"I think we still have some room to grow there in terms of aesthetic for the majority though."
So does Meta and it's the reason they aren't actually releasing this as a product. They just showed us where they're at and gave us an idea on where they want to go in the next few years.
A preference for 1950s Buddy Holly glasses would be a fashion choice, because such glasses are rare today. It loses all of that appeal and becomes a commodity when it's the only choice for a product category.
Article's point seems to be that in the long term: paper count, citations, impact, motivation and fulfillment will all come from focusing on a project.
Idk, nothing wrong with going for a low-hanging fruit and doing a one-off sometimes. So many academics fail to get stuff over the finish line. Not the right advice for everybody.
Depends on the person. Not unheard of to see people with 10+ working papers that realistically will never see the light of day. Each of those are months of work.
