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by estetlinus 23 days ago
Today I generated the equivalent of two LOTR books just to fix three missing rows in my SQL models (and open a PR), so +1
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or put differently, you melted x cubic meters of polar ice
Based on some napkin math, that would be about ~100 watt hours of electricity on an H100 cluster, or, roughly the same amount of energy needed to boil a kettle for a cup of tea.
That's an exceptionally fast output you have there...

Mind showing your working out?

Lotr ~1.4k pages 1 page ~1k tok -> ~700k tok 1tok ~0.5J -> 350kJ ~100Wh ~1 cup of tea
Doing anything melts x cubic meters of polar ice.