UltraMega

Toxic behavior online seems to be a growing trend. I'm sure it has everything to do with how social media tries to rile people up to maximize engagement. Seems like reporting rude comments would be a great task for an AI tho. Maybe they'll try that.

I agree, AI is definitely not a fad. We're really at the beginning of the AI tech boom. It's definitely possible that some shift in the tech's development could lead to an upset for investors who are banking on top chip makers to remain on top with high demand, but AI overall is definitely not a fad.

I was just out of high school back then, had no idea how to buy stocks. I remember seeing AMD at $2 and pleading with my dad to buy some, which he didn't haha. Can't blame him, I was just his nerdy son who had never talked about stocks before suddenly giving investing advice. It seemed clear to me that AMD would either go bankrupt entirely or their stock would have to go up, and knowing the stubbornness of the hardware enthusiast community to not let Intel win forever, I felt AMD simply could not fail and leave Intel with a monopoly, and so the gains were basically a guarantee. This situation with AI in general, not just AMD specifically, feels a little like seeing AMD at $2 back then in the sense that it seems extremely likely that AI related stocks will continue to go up with no limit that is easy to see right now.

It seems like any company deeply invested in AI hardware like Nvidia or AMD is selling water in the desert right now, and Microsoft is selling ice. I don't do crypto at all. I don't see any reason to investing crypto vs traditional stocks. Investing in one company you think might double is better than investing in crypto and hoping it doubles IMO. I only do tech stocks. All my investments are things I can fully wrap my head around. Aside from the covid inflation era, I've done well here. My brokerage account is up 30% over the last three months on Nvidia and Microsoft gains. If I had spare cash to add to my investments right now, it would go on AMD for sure. This is definitely a "rising tide lifts all boats" kind of thing.

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https://news.yahoo.com/amd-stock-reaches-52-week-144109796.html This article is from yesterday. AMD is now at $170.

My sub barely got warm to this. What is this, a Harley Davidson Club Reject playlist? You guys should really start linking Spotify file instead of YouTube, it's higher quality.

AMD unveils promo pricing in wake of Nvidia's Super launch — cuts pricing for RX 7900 XT and 7900 GRE | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com) Good start. If the 4000 Super cards get close to MSRP, AMD is going to have to cut prices some more if they want to stay competitive.

Could be a mix of both. Less sales, but also Google wanting to replace humans with AI where possible. I don't think Google is trying to eliminate wholes sales teams overnight, but have an AI that do some of the simpler tasks and thus lessen the need for humans to some degree.

Some interesting videos:

Recent news about AI: Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales | Ars Technica Artificial intelligence helped scientists create a new type of battery (sciencenews.org) How Machine Learning And AI Are Shaping Material Science (forbes.com) NASA accelerates science with gen AI-powered search | CIO Why 2024 Will Be The Year Of Specialized AI (forbes.com) Discoveries in weeks, not years: How AI and high-performance computing are speeding up scientific discovery - Source (microsoft.com) AI-driven drug discovery is poised to boom in 2024 | The AI Beat | VentureBeat

This article seems like a good way to kick off this thread. Bill Gates explains how AI will change our lives in 5 years (msn.com) At the title says, this will be a thread to post news about AI and discuss it. Feel free to post any AI related stuff here, or in the news section. Either is fine. I see a lot of interesting news about AI, so I think it will be good to keep a lot of it in one place. Personally, I think we are somewhere between 6 month to 5 years away from some kind if AI driven robots to enter the market in an impactful way. Some interesting talks from tech leaders and insiders about AI: Bill Gates and Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) discussing the future of AI Interview with the CEO of Scale, a company focused on making AI data processing more efficient Jensen Huang of Nvidia on the Future of AI

True, but I feel like one could easily drop 2-3 news articles a day about AI with how the news about it has been lately, so I just don't want to fill up the news section with AI stuff.

The only crazy part is how much we have to talk about the idea of having a couple options for shirts as if it's a major decision. It's really not a big deal at all. Framing it like one is the crazy part to me, and I just keep trying to maintain that overall point since it keeps being commented on. I'm not talking anime girls and abstract images. I mean something like the black wire frame design but made to work better with t-shirt prints, or something like the design we already have for mugs, but in a shirt. I don't think a reasonable argument can be made that a few more options like that would hurt brand identity, or have any real impact on brand identity at all. If we're going to go into this much depth about it, then I don't see how the current logo on a shirt without much else really help much either. For anyone who doesn't know what EHW is, the logo doesn't tell them much. What does ExxtremeHW mean? Is it Extreme Homework? Adding something that at least indicated it was computer related would definitely be on brand.

I don't think a couple of shirt options has any impact on brand identity, so I simply don't agree with your entire premise at all. It seems completely arbitrary and way over the top. A couple of shirt options would have no impact on brand identity unless the other options were really stupid.

I suspect this year there will be a ton of news about AI. I don't want to overload the news section with AI related news, but I don't want to ignore it either since it's all very relavent to where tech is headed. You would guts prefer that I just post individual AI news threads as normal, or have one thread in the news section that was continually updated with AI news, or one thread in the general section for "AI Discussion" while the larger AI topic have regular news threads? Basically, I don't want to clutter up the site with all this rapid fire AI news, but I still want to post it.

I'm not really focused on it at all, just responding to jancos comments. If anything, I think it's strange that there are such strong opinions about 1 shirt vs a couple. They will all have an extremehw.net. logo on them, I'd say that makes them pretty consistent. Why most of the people here prefer a shirt that is just the logo and nothing else, Idk. But it is what it is, I don't really care. Personally, if I had an ehw shirt I'd want it to be less boring than just a logo. I don't think a shirt with nothing more than a logo on it really serves much purpose as far marketing because people don't respond to a logo with no other info. Something that had a sort of tech enthusiast design + the logo would be better unless you just want to look like a best buy employee or something. Just wanted to add, I don't think of the merch as a marketing thing. We're not going to attract users by having merch or wearing shirts out in the world with an ehw logo. The merch is just a way for E to have a bit of revenue for running the site, and more options would likely mean more sales and more revenue for E. And really, I just want there to be a shirt I actually like. A plain logo is not my style.

I'm all for competition, but I wouldn't trust Google or Amazon to reliably be able to do what Microsoft does in these spaces. Given how anti-competitive both of those companies tend to be, especially google, it seems like it would go poorly.

There are currently no shirts since E wasn't happy with the print quality so it's irrelavent for now. That said, if you think having 3 or so different options for shirts is a bad marketing strategy then OK. I think that is obviously not the case, no one is going to be turned away from the site if there are a couple t-shirt options, and it's crazy to me that anyone would have a strong opinion against that. Feels like you just want to debate for the sake of debating. I think we all liked that dark wireframe design, for example. It just didn't work out for other reasons like the background not being clear and too low res, but it was a good design. 3 or so designs like that would be great. If you think 3 or so designs like that would be a bad marketing strategy, frankly, I don't think that is logical reasoning.

I didn't know you were an expert on t-shirts. Even with your logic in mind, less in more doesn't mean just 1. 3 or so designs would definitely be on the "less is more" end of the spectrum.

I don't think a screenshot of a list is a meaningful counterpoint. The merch isn't a big deal, but IMO there's room for more than just one design for shirts. I definitely don't think "less is more" is the right plan for selling anything like t-shirts or mugs in general. For EHW needs, I think 2-3 more creative options would be fine.

As far as merch like t-shirts goes, it's not one or the other. There can be simple options and some more creative ones. Just seems like the more options the better, within reason.

I second this. I know when we were doing the t-shirts it was probably design overload at the time, but I was just having fun with AI image gen at the time and seeing what it could do. There has to be room for a couple more creative designs. It would be good to have the EHW YouTube channel setup so that each video description starts with a link to the EHW homepage followed by a link to the EHW merch store. With a couple creative designs, who knows. Maybe the merch would bring in a few sales straight from YouTube.

I don't know it. No company as big as Microsoft is perfect, but overall I think they're doing pretty well. Seems like the market thinks so too. Google likes to monopolize things so they can charge whatever they want, like with search and ads. If Google were bigger in the business ecosystem, I'm sure it would be a bad thing.

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