Don't forget archers dog pissing on an aliens sacred tree in those exploits!

Yes but also: which, out of all of them, had a sweaty, half naked "rub oil on each other" scene?

I'm all for star trek having sex and bringing it to the forefront, but woof they need to have at least some finesse to it.

This has been stated since ChatGPT was released and has not happened. The video cards released specifically for LLM usage do not benchmark particularly better than the previous generation. And it's still unbelievably expensive to run these cards and maintain the facility and, again, you only get like 3 or 5 years out of them! That's a crazy investment lol

You are not actually considering the scale of 20 billion dollars nor the jump in a single year. Those are bad things.

The actual economics behind LLMs shows us they cannot become profitable ever, and this "invest more before becoming profitable" story does not fit in part because of that. Other companies who used that model had a way to become profitable.

The difference being they had a plan to monetize YouTube which offset the operating costs and even could make a profit, in addition to the stuff they over invested in having long term benefits. Aka they roughly could spent a lot to save money later off of what they built.

LLMs are not the same. They cost a shitload of money to run. Actual token based usage without being subsidized by investors would make any LLM cost users so much money that the actual value of it would immediately become major problem. Sure one can, currently, get decent code output by using hundreds or thousands of tokens, or using multiple LLMs / loops, or having agents go burn however many on iteration! But if we paid actual costs this shit would rapidly be shut down.

The AI infrastructure is also not saving money long term. Training is unbelievably expensive. Compute costs are all about gigantic data servers with video cards running, and the economics of all that is way tighter than anyone gives credit for. Those cards last like 3 years. The cooling costs are crazy. You have to have constant use to be efficient. None of these things are able to be covered by AI economics nor does it even make sense to be.

It costs too much, it's just being covered by your money being pissed away by tech investors for a technology that cannot survive.

Rs Vegas 2?

Organize? Me???

What did you get?

The mixed lawn is great mostly because it's less maintenance. The clover doesn't really do that much as a flower, it's more the lack of needing to constantly water or use herbicides that make it so beneficial.

Same goes for any non native flower. Yes, generalist bees visit them. It's not helping your ecosystem though. Only plants native to you will benefit the ecosystem. The food source of non natives does not feed all insects nor is as nutritional to the ones who use it. And they can't serve as host for any notable number of beneficial bugs. Instead, they'll displace better native plants, and amplify bad non native bugs (which in turn will further harm native insects)

Obviously a general exception to food plants. Unless it's a known or potentially invasive one (e.g. Bradford pears in southern US cause brutal invasives), you're not going to really get a native food plant, you're growing them for food not for the ecosystem.

While there are less aggressive types of bamboo, the point is it does not belong in your ecosystem. There's better options. Also native plants sited right (light level) will require like no maintenance to keep alive :) It needs help when you plant it esp if you've got a drought, but that's it. Getting a partially grown one from a native store (garden centers don't tend to actually carry natives) is a solid strategy

This finder looked fun: https://buynative.co.uk/plants/

Anyways, overall it sounds like you've been thoughtful about your yard space so you're already doing great ;) send pics!

Whenever doing mechanical removal, especially with rhizome roots, you're not gonna get them all. Don't focus on that either.

They are like a battery, storing all their energy in the roots for winter and shooting back up during the growing season. If you remove the bulk, you're robbing the plant of a lot of battery, making it less able to pop up.

You'll have it come back. But in smaller amounts, which you can just hand pull as they do, eventually totally starving it.

There are certainly ways to find more roots, or times to pull (like rain or after it grows up) or other methods (like a foliar spray), but these all cost more time or include using poisons in your garden. Instead, just dig it, pull as it crops up, and see how it goes. It will likely be enough for less time and let you get into planting stuff.

Also bear in mind: your garden soil also has a seed bank ready to go, so once spring hits you're gonna get all kind of stuff growing there. If you're planning to grow your own stuff (food plants or native flowers), then you'll want to plant those partially grown after you dig, use a mulch for a year or so, and keep weeding. Eventually your planted plants will establish and inhibit other plant growth.

It really is. I'm not sure we can ever be permanently rid of them too.

Growing food plants to eat, yes, the point is to eat.

Growing non food plants, the primary purpose is to support your ecosystem. Bugs pollinators birds etc. They rely on native plants only, and need them to survive.

Beyond that people also like the look of flowers and having them grow or thrive over time.

Good on you for not willfully growing something invasive or non native like bamboo (assuming it's not in your native range)!