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The Humbling Reality of AI Energy Costs: What I Learned in My Master's Thesis

The Humbling Reality of AI Energy Costs: What I Learned in My Master's Thesis

There's nothing like building your own AI system to discover how much easier it is to hype these technologies than to deploy them responsibly. I spent the last several months of my academic life obsessed with a deceptively simple question: Could large language models like GPT-4 and Claude
12 Apr 2025 4 min read
Zerotier VPN
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Zerotier VPN

A private subnet across multiple datacenters, that works for multiple OSes, that is fast, easy to manage en reasonably secure? That sounds like a piece of software that is to good to be true, but zerotier has it all, I think.
10 Nov 2019 2 min read
Nissan Leaf integration in Home Assistant
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Nissan Leaf integration in Home Assistant

I did not expect Nissan to have an API or something else to communicate with the car from an external source, but they do! It is hella slow (an API call takes about 60 seconds) but, it works. Also Home-Assistant already has an component built in that supports the Nissan
28 Sep 2019 3 min read
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