Does anyone know whether there any licences or licence derivatives - like the various flavors of Creative Commons - that currently restrict usage by AI LLMs?
This is a good overview on some of the environmental impacts:
'Environmental impact of direct lithium extraction from brines' (2023) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00387-5.pdf
Anyone suggest some great book recommendations to better understand modern computing hardware?
I have these three on my shortlist: (i) The Art of Electronics (3rd edition), written by Horowitz and Hill; (ii) Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition; and (iii) The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles, by Nisan & Schoken
ha ha: "In November 2013, Architelos mentioned .TK, the largest ccTLD with over 20 million domains, as one of the safest domain extensions in the world." https://www.freenom.com/en/aboutfreenom.html
"To understand why, consider someone who spent three months of the year receiving unemployment benefits while they searched for a job, then worked for nine months. The government considered their income for the entire year and averaged it, then assessed their eligibility for payments based on their average fortnightly earnings – not their income when they were out of work and therefore eligible for payments."
This is for Amazon as a whole (so not AWS) but recent news (26 May 2023) seems that they are targeting net-zero by 2040:
"The ecommerce giant recently backed out of a commitment to make 50% of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030. Amazon said in a statement that it would roll this goal into a broader Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon across all its operations by 2040. That's a decade later than the 50% goal, which was called "Shipment Zero" at the time." [0]
A companion of sorts is Nestflix [0]: "Fictional movies within movies... Fake shows within shows... Browse our selection of over 700 stories within stories."
What about money in = money out? If an organization pays its expenses - including the wages of its staff - well, why does there ‘need’ to be some cream leftover at the top?
What I am trying to better understand is why there is a preference (morally, legally, societally) for for-profit organizations.
Is it because (most) people are inherently profit-focused, or, that it is just the way things are? Amongst many other possible options.
You are confusing the terms loss (revenue < expenses) with not-for-profit.
In the context of organizations, not-for-profit doesn’t mean they are designed to be not profitable; rather, it means their primary goal is focused on other goals than making the most amount of profit possible.
It’s also a misnomer that not-for-profits can’t make profits, it’s just that those profits are not distributed to the capital (owners, investors) of the organization.
