Today I’m going to spend some time writing and cleaning up some files before the Colorado Avalanche game. Previously I spent some time wondering about what will happen with all the files being stored in cloud drives. Intellectually I know that most of these files will just end up getting abandoned and that over time we will just have this large amount of data that is just existing without anyone ever accessing it again. I would be curious to see what percentage of files saved to the cloud are written to disk and never touched again. I would be willing to guess the amount of photos, videos, and other randomly saved files that reach the cloud and are just stored without ever being used again is probably pretty large. Even with the cost of storage having dropped so much over the years the volume of storage occurring makes that glacier of never accessed files just mind blowing.
Today I did spend some time listening to this Machine Learning Street Talk video. I also downloaded the first paper referenced and saved it to my iCloud drive to read later on my iPad [1].
This was a fantastic interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Footnotes:
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.12580