u/Spiritual_Owl8439

I think about this a lot.

The field I wanted to work in was lost to AI and ever since, I've struggled to stay in a job that I can actually keep for more than 6 months.

I'm a massive creative and I've been trying to fit a career that's more academic but I can feel my concentration slipping, I get depressed just one week after my period and then I have no motivation to carry on.

I was just fired for taking a week off in a job I thought I was good at, and now I need to get it together to apply but I'm staring at these application pages and thinking I'd be better off in the dirt.

I don't feel compatible with life.

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As AI companies scramble to keep their systems online, their inefficiency is costing the rest of us, Alex Reisner argues.

The efforts to scale large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude will require so many resources that tech companies may be purchasing 70 percent of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory. Because of that, “the prices of computer memory and storage are skyrocketing,” Reisner writes—and there may be no end in sight.

The memory is being put into data centers, which tech firms are expanding at incredible speed. “The demand for electricity at these sites is already so great that some companies are repurposing jet engines to power them,” Reisner continues.

“The problem is not simply that AI is being deployed so widely or quickly,” Reisner argues. “Other computer technologies have seen similarly massive growth without triggering such a large spike in electricity or a shortage of computer components.” Video and music, for instance, are now streamed around the globe, accounting for many terabytes of internet traffic daily; the smartphone boom required the manufacturing of billions of devices that are now transferring huge amounts of data.

What makes generative AI different—and more problematic—is that it does not scale properly, Reisner argues.

I have another referral to a gyno and this one's actually a PMDD specialist.

I just need some help, I was so happy in that job.

I want to start upping my art production using various 3D programs, primarily Blender and my PC is deciding to pack it in at the worst time, am I cooked?