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MNByChoice

@ MNByChoice @midwest.social

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3 yr. ago

Read the Jesus parts again. Would Jesus like that?

20h ago

Europe’s Heat Wave Has the ‘Fingerprints of Climate Change All Over It’
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MNByChoice @midwest.social 20h ago
Guess Europe should do something about that then.
(Disrupt the money flow out of Russia.)

20h ago

wat

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 20h ago

Chauvin was murdered by the Minneapolis Police. St Paul Police appear to be more chill.

Edit: Not "chill" chill, but rather "less murderous chill".

1d ago

The world’s largest data center was supposed to run on 100% natural gas. Utah’s Republican governor says ‘never.’

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 1d ago

Actually, power draw timing is a huge issue, destroying electrical substations huge, with AI data centers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14318

Large Artificial Intelligence (AI) training workloads spanning several tens of thousands of GPUs present unique power management challenges. These arise due to the high variability in power consumption during the training. Given the synchronous nature of these jobs, during every iteration there is a computation-heavy phase, where each GPU works on the local data, and a communication-heavy phase where all the GPUs synchronize on the data. Because compute-heavy phases require much more power than communication phases, large power swings occur. The amplitude of these power swings is ever increasing with the increase in the size of training jobs. An even bigger challenge arises from the frequency spectrum of these power swings which, if harmonized with critical frequencies of utilities, can cause physical damage to the power grid infrastructure. Therefore, to continue scaling AI training workloads safely, we need to stabilize the power of such workloads. This paper introduces the challenge with production data and explores innovative solutions across the stack: software, GPU hardware, and datacenter infrastructure. We present the pros and cons of each of these approaches and finally present a multi-pronged approach to solving the challenge. The proposed solutions are rigorously tested using a combination of real hardware and Microsoft's in-house cloud power simulator, providing critical insights into the efficacy of these interventions under real-world conditions.

By Esha Choukse, Brijesh Warrier, Scot Heath, Luz Belmont, April Zhao, Hassan Ali Khan, Brian Harry, Matthew Kappel, Russell J. Hewett, Kushal Datta, Yu Pei, Caroline Lichtenberger, John Siegler, David Lukofsky, Zaid Kahn, Gurpreet Sahota, Andy Sullivan, Charles Frederick, Hien Thai, Rebecca Naughton, Daniel Jurnove, Justin Harp, Reid Carper, Nithish Mahalingam, Srini Varkala, Alok Gautam Kumbhare, Satyajit Desai, Venkatesh Ramamurthy, Praneeth Gottumukkala, Girish Bhatia, Kelsey Wildstone, Laurentiu Olariu, Ileana Incorvaia, Alex Wetmore, Prabhat Ram, Melur Raghuraman, Mohammed Ayna, Mike Kendrick, Ricardo Bianchini, Aaron Hurst, Reza Zamani, Xin Li, Michael Petrov, Gene Oden, Rory Carmichael, Tom Li, Apoorv Gupta, Pratikkumar Patel, Nilesh Dattani, Lawrence Marwong, Rob Nertney, Hirofumi Kobayashi, Jeff Liott, Miro Enev, Divya Ramakrishnan, Ian Buck, Jonah Alben

1d ago

The world’s largest data center was supposed to run on 100% natural gas. Utah’s Republican governor says ‘never.’

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 1d ago

Batteries don't have to be lithium based. (Power density is not an issue for a building.)

2w ago

Ahh yes, the belief in verticalism.

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 2w ago

You have a great point.

100 million 6-figure jobs available for everyone to not be poor

While "100 million" was likely made up, there are 8.3 billion people on earth. Those 100 million jobs are enough for 1/83 of the population.

2w ago

You're either HYDROGEN or HELIUM. Carbon-based lifeforms don't exist, sweatie

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 2w ago

While I agree, this line of argument could be taken to bolster Sky Daddy's love for us and only us.

The whole universe is so different from us, but our little bitty part is just right. Clearly, Sky Daddy made the particles our crude sense and instruments can detect just for us, but Sky Daddy truly is unknowable (and made of the other stuff).

2w ago

Don't forget the hoodie too.

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 2w ago

Til fine. I expected a follow of: "Complains A/C is hot working hard enough"

3w ago

MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 3w ago

But will they?

3w ago

GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 3w ago

Random detail on android auto that screwed me up for ages.

When the car asks for a numeric code only when your phone is attached, the phone wants you to enter your unlock code.

3w ago

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE - allows any unprivileged local user to gain root access on a vulnerable Linux system - no patch available

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 3w ago

Clearly you know of lot about this. Here are some comments for the next human.

Deny all modules seems more possible than a whitelist approach. To deny all, the command is likely "sysctl kernel.modules_disabled=1".

Whitelisting is harder. One could store a list of all loaded modules on a working system. Store a list of all kernel modules currently installed on the system. Compare the lists and remove from the "all" list the "running" list (grep will do this) and write it to the blacklist file.

The problem with the Whitelisting approach is that it needs to run after every kernel module install (which is doable).

If the above is the case, then someone must have automated this already, but I cannot find it quickly. (I checked Debian's package repository.)

3w ago

Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 3w ago

I bet Kevin O'Leary has a house with enough land for a data center. Maybe he should live next to one.

4w ago

Zohran Mamdani condemns ICE after police and protesters clash in Brooklyn

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 4w ago

Police appear to be something of a problem. Might be better to have no police than to have easily usurped police. Hell, slit the police force up based on tasks and don't have the group that is happy to "forcibly broke up protest" (keep the "investigate my murder" cops as they are doing a great job).

4w ago

Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 4w ago

The kids are gonna be alright.

(Lie to the government and big brother in every way you can without being shot.)

4w ago

someDaysAreBetterThanOthers

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 4w ago

Sometimes it is just a really intense garden.

4w ago

US reinstates ‘gun show loophole’ amid rollback of firearms restrictions

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 4w ago

I would anticipate the leftists to be incognito, so it may be hard to tell.

4w ago

The joke travelled over your head ;)

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 4w ago

"Translation" has several meanings. The joke swaps the expected definition for the unexpected one.

1mo ago

Innovation

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 1mo ago

Especially for 8 billion people. Regardless, your point stands.

1mo ago

Billie Eilish on how she's making touring less terrible for the planet

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 1mo ago

I was mostly assuming based on my own experience, as a human. Humans love gathering around large fires. As you asked let's dive into it.

Here is a bit list of festivals in Germany. This will be my starting place for most of it.

Easter - already discussed too much.

Biikebrennen (mostly a regional thing.)

If one includes fireworks... Well, check out the list of festivals above and word search. There are many.

The Tollwood Winterfestival has fire acts (in the photos at the bottom of the page). While these are very small fires, they look pretty cool.

At this point I asked an AI and it listed three additional. Yes it is shameful that I got impatient. Feel free to stop reading. I did my own reason from the names and provided the links.

Walpurgisnacht, Johannisnacht (Wikipedia does not mention fires, but here are photos from "More Than Beer and Schnitzel.com" ), and Martinsfeuer link goes to a random youtube video with a fire (There were enough bonfire related images in my search for Martinsfeuer that either that word means "bonfire" or there are a number of bonfires during that festival).

1mo ago

Things I Said I Watched but Actually Just Saw the Meme

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 1mo ago

I saw someone stitch it while explaining why it was problematic.

I choose to believe someone was doing cross-stitch while explaining why it was problematic.

Protip: Don't try to understand the meme, just make up your own story. It will be way better.

1mo ago

Trump plans long term blockade golf of Hormuz.

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MNByChoice @midwest.social 1mo ago

Thank you for sharing.

Article provides three alternatives for how this could shake out. All of them assume the movement has to be on Iran's side. The real world provides many, many more options.