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AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching over a system that rarely needed them.

I Built a Hybrid AI / Spatial Video Upscaler in the Browser

Running video upscaling completely client-side in the browser sounds like a fun weekend project until you hit the reality of VRAM limits and Out-Of-Memory (OOM) tab crashes. While building the video upscaler for my project tapirconvert, I realized that running a Heavy Neural Network (like Real-ESRGAN or ESPCN) to upscale a 1080p video to…

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