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by Recurecur 8mo ago
The expansion of the universe is largely due to the impulse provided by the Big Bang. General Relativity does attempt to explain some details regarding what’s happened after the Big Bang, but provides no insight into the Big Bang itself. No
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
In my opinion, LLMs provide one piece of AGI. The only intelligence I’ve directly experienced is my own. I don’t consciously plan what I’m saying (or writing right now). Instead, a subconscious process assembles the words to support my stre
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
It’s well understood that the expansion of the universe is not “due to general relativity”. General relativity does explain some details of that expansion.
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
FTL starships in an SF story don’t need a detailed explanation, just a new invention. It’s the exact same thing as a speculative story in the 1920s discussing supersonic flight, even though the jet engine hadn’t been invented yet. For insta
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
Hence the movement to eliminate the “Department of Education”, which at this point would be better named the “Department of Intentional Ignorance”. That’s despite spending more per child than any other country in the world.
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
All the smart and informed Americans…
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
Yes, COVID was a problem, along with many of the ill-considered responses to it. However, it’s now four years later, and it’s misguided to attribute the situation today to mostly being a result of COVID. Eliminating the DOE and most of our
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
Pete Hegseth in particular is addressing those issues… :-)
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
That is a sad story. Now, balance it with the thousands of sad stories arising from illegal aliens killing US citizens. That is not to mention around 100,000 US citizens dying from drug overdoses every year, due to porous borders. Thankfull
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by Recurecur 8mo ago
They’ll be bought/leased, providing direct profit. Also, there’ll be maintenance revenue. I think they’re expected to cost around $30K. In the case where they’re replacing a low-skill human worker, they’ll pay for themselves in 1-2 yea
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by Recurecur 9mo ago
> Agreed. We will be screwed once China surpasses us in chip fabs, and they will. The idea that we can get a "durable advantage" by reaching AGI a few years before China is ridiculous. Using that to justify bans that only slow
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by Recurecur 9mo ago
Outside the purely electric vehicles (where I believe Tesla competes very well, where is BYD at with FSD?), is there a Chinese equivalent to: - The upcoming EREV (mostly electric extended range hybrid) F-150 truck? This is expected to have
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by Recurecur 2y ago
The concerns expressed seem a bit silly, unless the various Euro systems didn't take the very basic approach of using open standards and avoiding lock-in. Oh, and they should be backing up their data somewhere besides "in the clou
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by Recurecur 2y ago
We certainly do need nuclear to replace coal. Coal and nuclear are both reliable sources of energy, unlike solar or wind. I'm sure you're about to go into some battery related hand waving, but that doesn't help in two ways. F
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by Recurecur 2y ago
Um, the DOGE is rather a necessity about now. The USA is ~$36 TRILLION in debt. Interest payments are now consuming ~20% of tax revenue...more than the defense budget. That's insane! Musk is also absolutely correct about over-regulatio
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by Recurecur 5y ago
Ha, someone on my project does exactly that...it never occurred to me it might be for perceived speed, I just figured ADHD... :^)
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by Recurecur 5y ago
One major problem with bureaucracy is that it will create issues to justify itself. I'm sure there's no real problem, it's just the government getting some PR and potentially some money via some kind of license/permit fe
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by Recurecur 5y ago
This is a silly take, primarily because it's centered on a single benchmark, Lightroom image import. Image import is generally I/O bound, so not a good fit for CPU comparisons. The GPU issue is relevant, we'll see how the M2
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by Recurecur 5y ago
>One would say the target audience of Julia - matlab converts, would barely use that feature (macros) directly. The 'target audience of Julia' is everyone, not just 'Matlab converts'. It is most focused on high perfor
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Nice writeup! I think Taiwan will remain free for at least a few years, as China would pay a very heavy cost for not too much gain invading Taiwan in the near future. We'll see if Taiwan goes nuclear in the interim. The Hong Kong exper
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Progress is sadly not instant. Julia seems to be gathering momentum rather than losing it. The future looks bright if trends continue! (As to the startup time problem, significant progress is being made... Have you looked at standalone bina
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by Recurecur 6y ago
> You can have all those wrapped under a high level API, with much nicer implementations, with more support, more documentation, more eyeballs (due to more adoption) in a "slow" language. You 'can' have those things,
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by Recurecur 6y ago
'Also it is not object oriented which is probably the most popular paradigm.' Popularity isn't a suitable metric for 'good'. Look at McDonald's food. 'Python will not be overtaken soon by such an exotic la
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Even if dormant tardigrades were delivered to the lunar surface, they wouldn't be viable after a short time. Between being frozen to less than -200F at night, to roasted at 200F during the day, and irradiated with all kinds of hard cos
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Thanks, I hadn't run across that writeup, though well aware of the issue. This was a little gem in that article, seemingly highly relevant now: > However, Rawls qualifies this with the assertion that under extraordinary circumstance
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by Recurecur 6y ago
This isn't correct. A fair number of these benchmarks were multithreaded, and the M1 held its own very well, despite being at a substantial disadvantage (8 threads (only 4 on performance cores) for M1 versus 24 for Ryzen 3900X). That s
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by Recurecur 6y ago
The grandparent used the wrong term. The memory isn't on the die, but it is in the package (MCM). I don't think that provides faster throughput, but it should help latency. Regardless, the big win was giving unified access to that
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Battery life alone isn't the main point! Extreme battery life + extreme performance is the main point! The Thinkpads with extra battery weren't in the same "small and light" class as the Air and MBP 13. These "s
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by Recurecur 6y ago
> But claiming that what’s available today from Apple is of great interest to the high performance market is jumping the gun. I think that misses the point that most users (and most software developers in particular) use laptops. The M1
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Linux should be on it shortly, running in a VM environment. That won't satisfy the purists, but it should satisfy the practical in most cases.

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