Category: Me Myself&I

I had just arrived in the family. This is a picture at my grandma’s house, I think the first time I had ever been there. She had bought my dad and I matching Lacoste polos, in baby blue color.

It was as if she had bought a daughter and a mom matching green Telfar purses in 2017. It was TIGHT.

I’m smiling and all giddy because shit is brand new. This is a brand new dad here, and he’s young and smart and funny. This is some of my first interactions with him as a 6 year old “dude”. It was a beautiful day. Summer, countryside stone house. Champagne on the table to celebrate my arrival in the family.

I will see my dad and my mom really soon. It’s been nine years.

My dad –who’s supposed to be retired, had that party for his retiring accountant who worked for him for close to forty years. I told him not to do it, because of COVID.

He got COVID. And then my mom. They were coughing badly today online but I feel relieved that I won’t be the one bringing it to them! They also are feeling better. Fingers crossed that it stays that way.

Fuck that entire virus and its families.

It’s raining. It is noticeable as we’ve had maybe 5 days of rain since January.

It was a pivotal year for me. Things have aligned and I reached the next plateau. Never give up is real. It might get to a halt, but never give up indeed.

Still battling Quality of Life issues aka Landlords Should Not Exist. But otherwise, it’s been pretty good.

Tons of things to look forward to do next year. I know it’s going to be a fast one with many projects to work on.

I hope everything is good for you.

In the news:

• Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low.
• AMD, Intel, and Nvidia reportedly slash orders with TSMC.

We maxed out, I keep telling people. We have enough computers already. We have enough processing power. How do I know this? I know most desktops CPUs and GPUs idle most of the time. Which is why companies don’t buy brand new computers as much anymore, which is why we’re seeing those headlines.

(Let’s not forget that around 200-300M computers/year have been sold since 2000. It had to slow down.)

From early 2010s and on, processing power has been bigger than our needs. It is a fact that all nerds out there don’t want to spread, but it is so true. Check this out with Nvidia:

They released their latest GPU a couple months ago. 76.3B transistors in 6cm², if you know numbers, you know this is an utterly insane achievement. It moves a fucking TB per second in memory bandwidth, it’s plain gross.

Well, what is the usage for this behemoth of the latest hi-tech possible? There’s none, really. You can do amazing architecture with way less expensive GPUs. Games run just fine with older cards. Even more telling: this RTX card is so fast and so bored, it has the time to create frames between frames. LMAO. What a waste of time and energy: 450W to wait for a CPU to feed it.

There’s a massive disconnect between our real human needs and tech. We maxed out. Another example:

A show with good visual quality, good sound subtitles etc, is about 3GB. It will be playable and look fine from your phone to a projector. It is still 3GB. It will always will be 3GB.

You download it over 4G. It takes about a hour. Is a hour long? No. A day is at least many hours. You transfer it to a device, it takes 5mn. Is 5mn long? No. It’s a human timeframe that we use all the time to do little things. So while the movie transfers, you go do a bit of dishes or cuddle with your boo.

My point is have 16K movies on 6G instantly viewable has the most diminishing returns ever: no one will ever care about waiting a little bit, as this is how it is. Sometimes in life, we wait. It is fine.

Therefore the ultimate goal of tech to do it faster, has been reached. I’m going around my laptops with TB drives, giggling at how much fucking space that is. 99% of the world uses computers with files in the order of KB or MB.

So yeah we won’t ever need 128-core at 18GHz CPUs, I’m afraid.

The opportunity here is to use the computers we have much better.

Remember: climate change means consuming less and smarter.

Can ChatGPT Build A Guitar Pedal Plugin? Yes, it kind of can. Me:

Remember, this is the start of decent AI. That is so impressive.

A quick review of what’s going for humans in the west:

• Level-5 (100% autonomous) cars are at the door.
• AI good enough to produce decent children books, C++ code and concept art is here.
• Robots in warehouses and delivery systems getting better all the time.

We have what, ten years left before UBI is an absolute necessity for all? We should start yesterday, y’all.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the government decides to fund a nuclear plant or two exclusively used to power a federal AI, and leases an entire state to build those data centers with a billion whining fans needed to cool down the tech. Those future fees. $$$.

I still can’t believe that video, bro.

37 per cent of the world’s population, 2.9 billion people, have never used the Internet.

From the now classic Tom Whitwell’s end of the year blog post.

2.9 billion people have never used the internet, ever.

On the other end of this, we have a few million folks so addicted to the fakeness of online clout that they spend every single second of their lives glued to it. They can’t realize that social media is just a bunch of websites on the internet that come and go in importance.

Those 37% might be very crucial for the future of human detox.

Giants. Thom Bell passed away the other day. Fantastic composer, arranger and musician. I’ll listen to his stuff my entire life for sure.

Pelé, well. He really is one of those characters that made me think as a child“so if white folks like him so much and praise people like him and I… Why is it so bad for black folks out there, apparently? I’m 7”. Oh, brother.

Anyway, Pelé is something else.

Spotted this year. Use your Illusion 1 & 2 by Guns & Roses. Apparently when the first volume came out in ’91, they sold 500,000 copies in the US in 2 hours. Music really used to be central.

With the smash hit November Mayne (imagine Terrence in the music video), you can’t go wrong.

It keeps giving me so much energy:

• We know how to make affordable healthy houses. In every climate.
• We know how to build houses that cost $200/year in cooling/heating. In every climate.
• We can 3D print now.

We need to build for timelessness, as the earth doesn’t like our wasteful habits. So creating structures taking care of us and harmonically combining with our planet, is a goal.

Meanwhile, it looks like we need better housing everywhere I look at.

LET’S FUCKING GOOOO