@spdegabrielle @sandorspruit @dimitriselectif
Yes to all. There's been plenty of talk about all of this.
I'm curious: have you tried running DrRacket with any non-trivial programs on the geriatric PCs in the public library? How well does it run? Does it even load?
Creating models is a 1-time activity. Using is far less intensive. Heck, you can just run an open-weight model on your laptop and see the energy usage for yourself.
@shriramk
It’s not a question I’ve been able to check for years because public libraries will not let you install software. (I bet Pyret works but I’ve not tried recently)
@spdegabrielle So that seems to already be something that I can do with commercial AI that I can't with Racket. (-:
Pyret will start up reasonably (depending on the thickness of your network pipe), but large tasks may exhaust the machine.
I was in Cambridge the week the Raspberry Pi came out. They were SO excited to show it to me as revolutionary for education. They had a keyboard and monitor. I entered wescheme.org . A few minutes later…they said "well, maybe it's not ready for that yet".