PopePompus

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by PopePompus 1y ago
Gosh no. Often a majority of the transistors are used in cache, but not 99%.
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by PopePompus 1y ago
Where ever you are in Italy, you will be told by locals that you can't trust anyone from a town south of that place.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I agree that removing these commemorative month names is a good idea. Anyone who cares about them knows when they start. But holiday dates like Christmas which are federal holidays are worth putting on the calendar, because many businesses
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I've never understood why Marie Curie is so celebrated in the popular press, but Noether is largely ignored. Noether's work is much more important, IMHO.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
This album is why the username "UhClem" has already been taken every time I sign up for a new account somewhere.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I think the antenna(s) is in the little shark's fin on the car's roof. Could a Faraday cage be made to cover that?
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by PopePompus 2y ago
A product which will significantly improve the productivity of programmers, if nothing else. That may not be a good return on investment, but I think it is undeniable that recent AI advances have nonzero value for coding.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
It's not just the investors and creditors that need to be wiped out. Above all else the managers need to be fired, with no bonuses or golden parachutes.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
The POLY instruction was the CISCiest of the VAX instructions. One machine instruction could evaluate a polynomial. I think it could even handle the situation where fetching one of the coefficients caused a page fault. If you knew the VAX
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I agree with you on everything except the SQL scripts. A world where absolutely nobody has to master SQL or regular expressions is a small step closer to paradise.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Well volume is an issue. Even a low margin part which has very high volume sales can help you afford to build leading edge Fabs, and keep process technology leadership.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Yes, there was copy-editing. After peer-review and acceptance of the paper, the journal would send me marked up versions of the paper ("proofs") that made the paper conform to the journal's style, fixed typos, etc. There we
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I have published papers in scientific journals. I had to pay page charges to the journal (well, my employer did), but I never directly paid any editor or copy-editor.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
But sci-hub stopped adding new articles years ago. It's significantly less useful than it used to be.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Academia's Ticketmaster
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by PopePompus 2y ago
You're certainly right about authors and peer-reviewers, but are you sure that editors don't get paid with some of that money?
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I don't know which is a better illustration of America's decline during my baby boomer lifetime - California High Speed Rail vs The Interstate Highway System or Artemis vs Apollo.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Well, I'm reluctant to give him the benefit of the doubt because he also says "we don't know what's on the back side of the Moon" despite the fact that the agency he heads mapped the far side of the Moon decades a
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Nelson. The guy who thinks the far side of the Moon is in eternal darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daZyPwCQak8&t=153s
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Yes, Hubble was supposed to be brought back to the Earth periodically for upgrades, but of course that never happened. Shuttle fans like to point to the Hubble servicing missions as proof of the spaceplane's value, but those servicin
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I think eventually the only famous Psych. experiment which will remain undebunked is the Milgram Experiment, not because it is better than the rest, but because nobody would be allowed to try to reproduce it today.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
The problem is, that's been tried and SCOTUS ruled it unconstitutional in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Term_Limits,_Inc._v._Thor... ), so a constitutional amendment would
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Politicians who refuse to retire is a huge, bipartisan problem in the US affecting both genders. Putting an age limit on the president or members of congress would probably have to be done via a constitutional amendment, because the Supreme
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by PopePompus 2y ago
Why aren't delays an appropriate reason? Is that explicitly in the contracts?
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I'm just happy anytime I read an extended block of text in which the author doesn't switch back and forth between singular and plural pronouns when referring to one person.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
And the flip side is that the resources available in the universe are practically inexhaustible. A few quadrillion humans wouldn't strain it.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
https://youtu.be/HcXu4_K1tMQ?t=62
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by PopePompus 2y ago
You can certainly write "I know that there is something beyond mathematical rules that exists." That doesn't make it true.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I think claiming that bees rolling little wooden balls are playing is like claiming that moths endlessly flying around a porch light at night are dancing. When a creature with a brain far simpler than a mammal's encounters stimuli that
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I don't see what the difference between "continuous during that period" and "active when called" is. When an AI runs inference, that calculation takes time. It is active during the entire interval during which it

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