Pablo López Torres

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[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them!

Every "supercomputer" has an [ ACCESS NOW ] button which made me very excited

I expected to sign up, maybe pay a discounted H100 rate (funded by EU, that'd be nice?) and get a Jypyter notebook, or some SSH login so I can access my GPU like I'd do on @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online

But I celebrated to early, I signed up, confirmed my email, then ended up in a "Supercomputer Access Calls" page, where I had to select from a tedious list of "Call For Proposals" to get access to a GPU

So I could NOT just access a H100 GPU, I have to make sure my project (in this case my business) fits a specific proposal, ok fair

This process was already tedious enough but then when I tried to actually go through with it, it started asking me if I had "Respect for Human Agency?", I do I think, and if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being?", well I am, right guys??? Right??? The questions didn't stop, just endless pages of this

Look I get what they're doing, they pivoted the classic university "I need to rent a giant computer for my research" to an EU wide thing and then present it as the "European AI plan"

But this isn't really how AI works in production? As a founder in AI, if I wanna do stuff I'd rent a whole bunch H100 GPUs again at @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online and SSH into a box

Or if I want it more simple I run AI models on @FAL, @wavespeed or @replicate which is just an API call or web front end I can click stuff and run a model

The EU has the right intentions here but it's just the wrong execution, this thing will 100% go nowhere, and I'm a born optimist, I want to believe, I'm also a proud European, and I'm in AI a bit and not a complete idiot. There's just better ways to do this

If you really want to have the GPU servers in Europe (which arguably isn't that important), then let me rent a GPU box with SSH access at @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that's hosted in Europe and subsidize that for European citizens and European businesses. I don't even believe in that, but at least that'd make it accessible for Europeans. Now it really isn't?

What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation. Because right now the regulation only benefits the European incumbents, the dinosaur companies, while making it very difficult for European citizens to start new AI companies here.

Which is why we literally have none left.

Anyway, I applied to get my GPU, let's see if I get it!

[Nicola @NicolaManzini]

Today has been a busy day for this sailing game!

- Bought a new domain https://t.co/MiixeqCBqS
- Added a front sail (jib)
- Started a subscription to islands for advertisement
- 4 people bough one!
- Added more remote islands so sailors can explore.

Here a brief recap of the state of the game now!

[Pablo López Torres @supertowers]

Just completed Sandustry by @LanttoGames and I'm really hyped about what's about to come...

[Toño Huerta @tohuerta]

Dos iniciativas que podéis ayudar a difundir 🧑🏻‍💻

1. https://t.co/cdOkuBSQkn para recopilar y clasificar todos los proyectos de ayuda que están lanzando empresas, instituciones y particulares.

Cualquier enlace que veais fiable enviad [email protected]

Muchas gracias ♥️

[Grant Kot @kotsoft]

Rewriting the liquid layers demo to better utilize WebAssembly SIMD (~3x perf improvement). Will share new demo soon after adding back interactions (there will be new interactions too).

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

A battery recycling plant that is 100% electric powered, uses no local water, and is cheaper than mining the metals.
Leading the world, worth knowing about: https://t.co/p6Or6NBuUW

[Pablo López Torres @supertowers]

@david_bonilla Hace poco recuperé una tesis con un recuperador de archivos borrados. Si no ha habido mucha actividad en ese ordenador yo lo intentaría, si no lo has hecho ya...

[Pablo López Torres @supertowers]

@david_bonilla Para mi, TCP

[Wouter de Bres @WdeB]

Can you believe this was made in Unreal Engine 5?

[Don Antoño @AntonioGoBe]

Las IAs de texto están cambiando el mundo, pero la mayoría de gente no sabe comunicarse con ellas.

He leído el 99% de lo publicado hasta la fecha para que tú no tengas que hacerlo.

Na, es coña. Sólo te traigo 8 puntos clave (MUY CLAVE) sobre el tema.

Vamos 🤖🦧🤖🦧

[David Bonilla @david_bonilla]

¿alguien sabe dónde puedo comprar la base de código de Tuenti? ES PARA UN AMIGO...

[David Bonilla @david_bonilla]

Dinero Público. Código Público.

[Toni Garrido @garridocoronado]

Señoras y señores: SONORA. https://t.co/LYSBBkdelO

[Javier Bauluz @javierbauluz]

Me aplican la #LeyMordaza sin derecho a juez, testigos, pruebas. Indefensión Total = 1.000 euros

En https://t.co/9fngLsfAUZ puedes adquirir el libro con las fotografías que no querían que vieras #LaRutaCanaria

¡Gracias!

¡Seguimos! #Fotoperiodismo #Periodismo

[Enric Sánchez @enricsanchez]

Hemos ido a la luna, tenemos 5G, podemos videollamar a Japón y hay robots preparados para hacer operaciones milimétricas. Pero, eso sí, una transferencia tarda 2 días en hacerse efectiva porque supongo que va un hombre con un maletín de un banco a otro.

[Gary @every_daydad]

I legit do not understand sleep tracking with an Apple Watch.

When are you supposed to charge the watch?

[Javier Ruiz @rsjavi]

No os imagináis la paciencia que tenemos que tener las personas que no bebemos alcohol explicando TODOS los días que no nos gusta beber. De verdad, es agobiante la incitación constante que sufrimos para que bebamos y la cantidad de prejuicios absurdos que hay sobre los abstemios.

[paula cayuela vela @paula_cayuela]

✨ Twitter haz tu magia ✨

Estoy lanzando un proyecto personal (https://t.co/n1tRSDSEdc) y me encantaría contar contigo como beta tester :) ¿Te apuntas?

[Antonio Giraldo @giraldeo]

La Gran Vía de Madrid tiene un montón de edificios de muchos estilos diferentes y con mil historias cada uno. Pero, hace poco, paseando por delante de uno de ellos que nunca me había parecido relevante, me paré y me fijé en que algo MUY extraño pasaba con él...

⬇️Hilo⬇️