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Lethe

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Good to see European mainstream media finally doing their job and covering Hersh's Nord Stream story. Here he is interviewed by Berliner Zeitung: "Joe Biden blew up Nord Stream because he didn't trust Germany".

The interview is very interesting, use an automatic translator:

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Thanks for this. The most interesting aspect of the interview, in terms of adding to the written story, was this:

The operational staff, the people who do "kinetic" things for the United States, they do what the president says, and they initially thought this was a useful weapon to use in negotiations. But at some point, after the Russians invaded and then, when the operation was completed, the whole thing became increasingly repugnant to the people who carried it out. These are people who work in top positions in the secret services and are well trained. They turned against the project, they thought it was crazy.

Shortly after the attack, after they had done what they had been ordered, there was a lot of anger among those involved about the operation and rejection. That's one of the reasons I learned so much.

Hersh has made a further
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on Substack. Most of it is meta-commentary about how the story has been received and how this pattern of mainstream disinterest and hostility towards his stories is not new, but he ends with this:

There may be more to learn about Joe Biden’s decision to prevent the German government from having second thoughts about the lack of cheap gas this winter.

Stay tuned. We are only on first base . . .
 
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Abominable

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Its on azure AI, it costs hundreds of millions to train GPT

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Models need to be continually trained and something like a convolution neural net work requires serious computational power from GPUs. You can technically run it on a home PC, but the process will be so slow that it is not worth it.
Are computers that run openAI fundamentally different than a high end commercially available computer? I know people buy bitcoin mining computers.

What I'm getting at...is it the sort of thing only governments and large corporations get access to, or can individuals or small businesses? How much would it cost to have your own local OpenAI?
 
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