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  • Are you genuinely having more fun now than with good games from 10years ago? Even 15years ago??

    On the contrary, I’m still playing those games sometimes. At the moment it’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted from 2005.

    And recently indie games are growing in popularity, those are often quite simple visually, or go for a retro style. Megabonk for example, or Mewgenics or Slay the Spire 2.



  • For Masayoshi Son, the Boston Dynamics exit looks small beside SoftBank’s current AI infrastructure campaign. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that SoftBank is forming Roze AI, a new venture meant to use artificial intelligence and robotics to build physical infrastructure, including data centers. Tom’s Hardware, citing the Financial Times, reported that Son is aiming for a $100 billion valuation for Roze and a public listing as soon as this year. That puts the $325 million Boston Dynamics proceeds in perspective. SoftBank is not walking away from robotics as an idea. It is moving toward robots as part of the AI buildout, tied to data centers, energy, land and construction.

    To me that sounds like it might really be their plan. But it also seems like a shit plan.

    They are already on the hook for such an insane amount of datacenter debt, now they sink even more debt into robots under the theory those might help with the first batch of debt? The timeline will never work out. Until autonomous robots are helpful on chaotic construction sites, maybe in 5 years at the soonest, the LLM craze will have gone bust.







  • Is there a term for “lying by imprecise wording likely to be interpreted in a more serious way that what is actually the supportable message”? Because this headline is such a prime example.

    When you read this it sounds like Grok fired missiles in some way. But the actually supportable message is that it was used in target selection, and its speed enabled the missile attack to reach such a scale in a short time frame.

    Edit: Not that I think that’s good or anything, don’t get me wrong. I’m just railing against the shoddy journalism, despite the horrifying content.








  • It’s slightly less stupid than data centers in space I suppose. But I still find it pretty weird.

    You will have to be tethered to land anyway. Properly high bandwidth networking as you would usually see to connect a data center (on the order of a dozen terabits per second) only exists through fiber optic cables. I’m sure of this point, because optical networking is my day-job, though we only run 400 Gbit/s links on the fastest edges since we’re a small national network.

    As for power, well there are 80 MW ship engines (e.g. Wärtsilä-Sulzer RT-flex96C, which has even been built in Korea under license before), so it’s not impossible I suppose. But if you are tethered, then the country you’re tethered to will probably forbid you from burning bunker fuel for 80 MW on its coast. At which point you’d be reduced to running clean diesel or something. That I expect would make the power more costly than just tethering to an electric grid

    So now we have a big barge rather than a ship. What do you really save then? I guess the price of the land? And you gain access to copious amounts of saltwater, so you can do closed loop cooling with freshwater, and do the secondary heat exchange to the ocean. But you could do that by building on the coast too. Okay I guess you might gain tsunami security over a coastal building.

    If this is a real proposal why don’t they tell us the material advantages they expect, rather than making us guess?