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by SideQuark 2mo ago
Same - very good article.
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
As others here have pointed out, this is nonsense. The vast majority of PRNG calls on the planet are extremely high perf simulations, where crypto secure versions are a ludicrous cost in speed, energy, and sheer stupidity. That you and othe
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
Those were leading capital letters words. This is ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, which is different. As others pointed out, it’s used extensively in the click bait arena.
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
> The UC system and many other of the top universities in the country have also stopped looking at SAT scores. Which led to a spectacular failure of incoming students to do basic math, lead to massive increases in failures in first year
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
Courts have ruled many things besides encryption count as anti-copying measures, and that the laws apply retroactively, so it’s not so clear such patches even on 360 are legal. Try selling such patches and test it.
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
When you conflate an 8-bit xor cipher with AES and a 10 line python NN with the complexity of trying to break AES with a NN by having "the model ... predict the key", I can see how you think such a thing is possible. It's non
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
Employing anti-protection methods to do to has been illegal since 1996 WIPO treaties, and then much more strongly in the 2002 DMCA. So around 30 years now.
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
Have you ever built a NN model? Have you ever broken a crypto system, even a small one?
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
There are plenty of algorithms that quantum algorithms give no benefit to. Quantum is NOT a free for all making everything faster. It’s only faster at two very,very restricted things: hidden subgroup problem (which is used for RSA, but most
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
You’re not giving it to a banker, you’re trading risk for return and flexibility. One can access savings at any time, any amount. Not true with bonds, maybe if you fiddle with indices. Also bond returns have averaged 5% over decades, not 7.
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by SideQuark 2mo ago
Single event upsets are forced on you by physics. There is no possible way to stop them all.
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
> Put all of these trends together, and I think that in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) running models doing pretty much anything that frontier models can do right now. Not likely. The last 50 years had Moore
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
That's not recursion. And reversing arrows on this category turns base cases into co-base, or start cases, (and these are still often called base cases in the literature), so it is still required. Reversing arrows again, back to recurs
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
… which needs a terminating case, which cannot be not defined as the same recursion.
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
> What is it doing to feed my family in burundi? That it has not solved everyone's problems on the planet is no argument it against what it has provided more than any other system. It's surprising how many of your comments plac
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
It's because the underlying optimizer follows patterns in LLVM, which is used for a lot of languages, most applicable here is C/C++, and bit things like this are used a lot for performance. The particular patterns were added to C2
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of l
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
And then you summarized > 4% of ~40B times 12 years = $19B. as if this might be close to reasonable estimate of the profit off these farm repair contracts. But you pulled that reasoning right out of nowhere. It's simply ignorant. Mu
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
> … so there's a physical process that's undecidable. No, since you cannot physically build a Turing Machine. A Turing machine requires infinite tape. Any physically realizable machine doesn’t have that, so has finite states, s
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
Go pull their financials, stop pulling nonsense out of thin air.
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
I looked over their financials. You conjectured out of feelings and ignorance. Calling my evidence naive, when you are simply making things up, is ludicrous. Go do some legwork, get some actual data, not make believe feel good fairy dust. T
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
Last year was 5b net profit on 44b revenue. Attributing more than a tiny fraction of profit to the right to repair stuff is wild dreams, given the amount of physical goods they sell. Nothing in their SEC filings shows anything mentionable a
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
Ah, trying to move the goalposts huh? What’s the number of Teslas sold per year? Declining year over year as others have grown significantly. Profit margin sans regulatory issues? Peaked 2021, declining since then. Same in about every compa
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
This feels like the “we should make an internet company that ships pet food to anyone, anywhere!” of the 21st century.
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
You’re claiming in 10 years they made something others won’t for another century? This has no historical precedent. China is going to eat them, just like they ate Teslas insurmountable lead in a few short years.
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
Rent vs own is about price. If you want to own something, digital, physical, information, goods, then a vendor will charge more, sometimes a lot more, to sell you an infinite ownership vs you get limited rights. Most everything I buy needs
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
If it's on the stack, it's almost free to do. If it's held by a unique_ptr, then it auto frees, but there is a lot of programmer work to ensure things behave well, and there are nuances to allocating something into the unique
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
It's interesting you cut out the "There’s plenty of papers showing exactly this." then pretended the rest is simply ignorant belief. > the businesses that won during the 2000-24 period (the so-called “tech” companies) were
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
So you replace a loop that delivers last mile goods to a lot of cars going decently out of their way to the limited places just to pick one item? Surely it’s less miles driven when Amazon does a loop hitting several people right near me tha
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by SideQuark 3mo ago
Yes, there is always an issue upsampling since you have to make up new values. For downsampling by an integral factor, you have honest samples at those times, but any other rate will also need new samples to be constructed. So for these, in

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