I agree with the other comments, but wanted to add how deepfakes work to show how simple they are, and how much less information they need than LLMs.

Step 1: Basically you take a bunch of photos and videos of a specific person, and blur their faces out.

Step 2: This is the hardest step, but still totally feasable for a decent home computer. You train a neural network to un-blur all the faces for that person. Now you have a neural net that’s really good at turning blurry faces into that particular person’s face.

Step 3: Blur the faces in photos/videos of other people and apply your special neural network. It will turn all the blurry faces into the only face it knows how, often with shockingly realistic results.

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Please heed the warning!! I showed this to everyone I know at work, and they all dissolved into dust :((

Well from a hardware perspective, pretty much every tech product is built on the back of horrifying amounts of labor exploitation.

Also in some cases components will contain gelatin, which isn’t vegan.

For software? Well I sacrifice and goat and feed it to the machine before every git commit I make, so that’s probably not vegan either.

The 1070Ti doesn’t have the hardware necessary for DLSS, which makes a huge difference in performance for gaming.

Also I was using the 3050 as a low-cost example (it’s what I use). My roommate uses a 3060Ti and that thing easily handles every game she’s thrown at it.

I can guarantee you’ll get more bang for your buck going with Nvidia just due to the fact that so much compute software requires cuda (blender, machine learning, any sort of engineering simulation software). Nvidia drivers are just less of a pain to deal with as a developer, since they’re less strict on error handling and syntax.

You can get a 3050 on amazon for like $150 now, which is more than enough for most games.

Plus DLSS is still miles ahead of FSR in terms of quality and efficiency.

The CEO of freedom looks like Steve from Minecraft

Based on this pin configuration, there’s only two dedicated power pins, which isn’t very good for large wattages. The rest are twinax signal pairs separated by ground to reduce crosstalk.

Usually when connectors are designed for power delivery, they’ll use bigger contacts to reduce the contact resistance (signal contacts tend to be small so you can fit more of them in the same space). I’m guessing the original DP connector form factor wasn’t made with such high power in mind, so it would make a lot of sense to use the spare signal pins for power delivery in this case. Running too much power through too few small pins can damage the contacts, by either by instant-welding the contact surfaces or by overheating the connector (see NVIDIA GPUs) ((also high voltages can cause arcing, which even in the best case will seriously degrade any connector)).

Take all of this with a huge grain of salt cause I just learned this stuff like a month ago, and my department has nothing to do with any of it. Just though someone might find it interesting.

Hi! I actually work at a major electrical connector company, so maybe I can shed some light on this.

I have no idea.

That’s a lot of power! Are there even any devices that use this?