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This is going to be another chaotic article about analysing network packet captures, except this time it is not about OT, ICS, SCADA, PLCs, HMIs, or other industrial things that can break if you look at them too aggressively. This time it is about regular IT network traffic. So, yes, apparently I...
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There's an open letter circulating this week entitled "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia", initiated by academics at Radboud. I agree with quite a lot of it, but their demands are quite sweeping and as a result I can't sign this letter. My reasons, my response, are …
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Imagine you have recorded lots of very long audio files. Hours long, at least. Gigabytes long, at least. You can store these in standard formats such as WAV or FLAC. You can share those via cloud storage too. But now imagine that you want to do data analysis involving random …
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Training AI models, or running AI experiments, can consume a lot of power. But not always! Some are large and some are small. This week I've been using CodeCarbon, a tool for measuring the CO2 emissions of your code. CodeCarbon tracks the amount of power that your computer's CPU/RAM …
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We've been asked the question: "Is using LLMs bad for the environment?" It's an important question, since it's a new technology that many are trying to find uses for -- yet it clearly uses a nontrivial amount of energy to run LLMs, which translates into impacts such as CO2 emissions. As …
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I've been thinking about how our research team can maximise the effectiveness of their machine learning (ML) experiments. I'm thinking of it as maximising the "throughput" but not in the usual computer-science approach (parallel processing, SIMD, GPUs etc) -- instead, I'm trying to pay attention...
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Find me on Mastodon! This is me: https://mastodon.social/@danstowell I also have a couple of separate "topical" accounts, where I post food and drink here: https://hostux.social/@nomnomdan music here: https://ravenation.club/@mcldnowplaying I'm really enjoying it so far, it feels lively. I don't...