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A comment on Ask HN: What is your take on carbon emissions of Machine Learning.

Re:Ask HN: What is your take on carbon emissions of Machine ... by max_ on Monday March 07, 2022 @09:00AM (#30587848)
To cut carbon emissions significantly, we need to move away from fossil fuels.

Anything else (other sources of emission) is simply a distraction from this simple & obvious solution.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your take on carbon emissions of Machine ... by danschmitt on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:06AM (#30588623)
As much as I agree, I also wonder if we can switch to sustainable energy sources fast enough. Efficiency of training and inference may be able to make at least a small saving here and thus gain valuable time.
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