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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

lolcat ,
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Turntable? With the floppy sitting in the middle, on its side edge? With the camera fixed in position, the top edge will be a little closer to the lens, but can be rescaled?

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Can't believe they spent a gigawatt training GPT3 and the fucker isn't even trying to overthrow humanity.

Look, where I come from, if you burn a gigawatt of energy to make an AI, it had better damn well go skynet on you.

lolcat ,
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@foone

Sucking up resources is evidence Skynet became self sustaining sometime around 1999, and really hit its stride by 2010 or so. GenAI is just more proof.

Power calc pedantry to follow.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/07/27/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use/

Estimated ~10gwh to train, and ~1gwh/day to run.

~500 days in operation, so ~1/2 twh consumed so far.

~25pwh annual global electric consumption.

So, < one fiftythousandth of global consumption (~0.005%).

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