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Yeah, I found this when I was Boinc protein folding for Covid. The work units ran for hours, my towercPC nearly melted, and then I found that this produced mere

Yeah, I found this when I was Boinc protein folding for Covid. The work units ran for hours, my towercPC nearly melted, and then I found that this produced mere milliseconds of simulation!

xattt 2y ago
> nearly melted I’ll be that guy, but a computationally complex problem won’t push your computer to a temperature beyond design limits.
- FerretFred 2y ago
  You're welcome to come to my attic office in summer, as they ambient temperature reaches 200F m a sunny day and my obsolete-but-powerful tower PC consumes 350W power and adds to the tropical heat :)
- LoganDark 2y ago
  > a computationally complex problem won’t push your computer to a temperature beyond design limits. Allegedly. It allegedly won't do that. Practically, running your CPU at design limits for a very long period of time tends to cause the temperature of the rest of the chassis to want to equalize to that temperature, which can be above comfort limits.
- inglisilihsh 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole#:~:text=Hyperbole%20is%20often%20used%20for,or%20ironic%20or%20comic%20effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole#:~:text=Hyperbole%20...
- JohnHaugeland 2y ago
  It’s just a turn of the phrase. When someone says that the sky is falling, that also doesn’t need to be explained
- userbinator 2y ago
  It may if components are marginal... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008879
jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago
Now consider that the Planck time is actually 1e-44 secs.
- atemerev 2y ago
  Hardly any actual physical simulations simulate every possible moment in time. We just calculate consequences of current events and put them in the queue to happen sometime in the future. And there's evidence that the real world works in a similar way.
- dekhn 2y ago
  Bonds jiggle and wiggle with characteristic times in femtoseconds, and most people believe it's not necessary to simulate at higher frequencies than that.
  - jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago
    Yes, I agree with that. My point was just that stimulating a rudimentary model of reality is hard work, but reality is way more complex than even that.

Yeah, I found this when I was Boinc protein folding for Covid. The work units ran for hours, my towercPC nearly melted, and then I found that this produced mere milliseconds of simulation!

xattt 2y ago

> nearly melted I’ll be that guy, but a computationally complex problem won’t push your computer to a temperature beyond design limits.

FerretFred 2y ago
You're welcome to come to my attic office in summer, as they ambient temperature reaches 200F m a sunny day and my obsolete-but-powerful tower PC consumes 350W power and adds to the tropical heat :)
LoganDark 2y ago
> a computationally complex problem won’t push your computer to a temperature beyond design limits. Allegedly. It allegedly won't do that. Practically, running your CPU at design limits for a very long period of time tends to cause the temperature of the rest of the chassis to want to equalize to that temperature, which can be above comfort limits.
inglisilihsh 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole#:~:text=Hyperbole%20is%20often%20used%20for,or%20ironic%20or%20comic%20effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole#:~:text=Hyperbole%20...
JohnHaugeland 2y ago
It’s just a turn of the phrase. When someone says that the sky is falling, that also doesn’t need to be explained
userbinator 2y ago
It may if components are marginal... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008879

jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago

Now consider that the Planck time is actually 1e-44 secs.

atemerev 2y ago
Hardly any actual physical simulations simulate every possible moment in time. We just calculate consequences of current events and put them in the queue to happen sometime in the future. And there's evidence that the real world works in a similar way.
dekhn 2y ago
Bonds jiggle and wiggle with characteristic times in femtoseconds, and most people believe it's not necessary to simulate at higher frequencies than that.
- jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago
  Yes, I agree with that. My point was just that stimulating a rudimentary model of reality is hard work, but reality is way more complex than even that.