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by adrian_b 4mo ago
He did not claim that ML-KEM is not fine. The use of dual algorithms is without doubt the prudent decision for a transition period. ML-KEM is still too new for anyone to be able to claim that no way to break it will be discovered in the nex
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
His harsh criticism of OpenAI and Anthropic is intended to be a sales pitch for a new product of Palantir, "Sovereign AI OS", which is promoted under the slogan "The future of AI is on-prem." This is claimed to be "
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
While his criticism of OpenAI and Anthropic is likely to be true, it is intended to be a sales pitch for a new product of Palantir, "Sovereign AI OS", which is promoted under the slogan "The future of AI is on-prem." Thi
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
That will have to wait 10 years, or even a few more years, for a transition from silicon to a semiconductor with a wider bandgap.
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Many years ago, I have switched to touch-typing using the Dvorak layout (on standard QWERTY keyboards), which I find much more comfortable. Obviously any classic control key assignments, like those of vi or those of emacs, are far from opti
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
As a multi-cellular organism, a brain-dead human is not alive, even if most of its cells may remain alive as long as they are fed from outside. OK, what I have said above is not generally true, as some brain-dead humans may be more alive th
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I am lazy to search for a more authoritative source, but Wikipedia says that Pu-241 has a greater neutron absorption cross section than Pu-239 and the same probability of fission after absorbing a neutron. It would also generate a slightly
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
While some years might pass until they will really catch up, that does not prevent them to find workarounds for their weaknesses. For example, they recently have demonstrated a supercomputer faster than any of the US supercomputers. Unlike
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
While this is an impressive step forward, there remains an extremely long way, probably of several decades, until being able to design and synthesize a cell comparable in complexity with a bacterium. The thing that they made is more alive t
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Communism has never been done properly, because it cannot be done properly. Communism is an erroneous idea. It starts from a correct premise, that humans who have accumulated much wealth are able to use it abusively for accumulating more an
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
The so-called socialist economies were just the extreme form of monopolistic capitalism. As a child, I experienced the reality of "socialism", where every word used by the ruling elites meant something very different from what it
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
There is a safe radiation dose, because all living beings concentrate in them several radioactive isotopes (14C, 40K, 48Ca), so they are more radioactive than the environment. Also, for example I have a dental bridge made of platinum-gold a
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
One of my servers is used as an Internet gateway, so it hosts many network services, e.g. e-mail, DNS, NTP, DHCP etc. That one (which runs FreeBSD) is rebooted perhaps once per year or even more seldom, when I do a kernel update or a hardwa
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Nit pick: The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-"
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
For multi-purpose tasks, human hands and arms are excellent, but only 2 are too few for many tasks. Humans very frequently need to have specialized gripping tools in order to accomplish tasks that cannot be done with only 2 arms, or they mu
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Like others have mentioned, 50k small CPUs like 8085 can be made in a single production batch (i.e. a small basket containing silicon wafers, which passes through all manufacturing steps), so a number like this is likely to be the minimum a
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
This is standard semiconductor manufacturing jargon. "Substrate" here refers to the silicon wafer on which the integrated circuits are made, which at the end of the manufacturing process is cut into individual chips, which are the
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
That is easy when you can control the teacher model yourself and you want to transfer its capabilities to a smaller model. If the teacher model is run by an external entity, e.g. Anthropic or OpenAI, then the number of queries to the blackb
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I do not find the Anthropic allegations believable. All the results presented in these distillation papers are for very small models. In order to gain anything, Alibaba or others would need today to use the Anthropic models to improve LLMs
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
You can go past this only on a matmul benchmark, which is seldom useful per se. Linpack consists mostly of matmuls, but nonetheless there are additional operations that prevent GPUs to reach the high utilization of over 80% that is normal f
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
The so-called copyright violation was that Max Planck had published the same article in 2 journals, which was not unusual at that time, because different journals had different readerships, so publishing in more journals was necessary if yo
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Init scripts should not need significantly more than a few lines. I do not think that I have ever used an init script longer than 1 page of text. If bugs are feared, it is always possible to invoke a script written in another scripting lang
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I have seen a lot of Systemd presentations, for much more than a decade. None of them has included even the slightest reason why I would want to use it, and on my computers, desktops, laptops, mini-PCs and servers, I have run only Linux or
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
For production systems, I started more than a quarter of century ago with FreeBSD, which at that time was still much more stable and more performant than any Linux variant. Even then, the init scripts system of FreeBSD was much better than
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I am one of the happy Gentoo users, who have escaped from systemd until now. Some years ago I have experimented with systemd for a month, by using Arch Linux. However I have encountered an ugly bug and eventually I wiped it out. The problem
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I have used a microcontroller from ST, very similar in size and also with a Cortex-M0+ core. The applications required only I2C to communicate with a bunch of other integrated circuits and a few general-purpose pins. An example of an applic
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Correction, I took the 4 TB/s from TFA, but the NextPlatform article clarifies that it is 4 TB/s per chiplet, but 8 TB/s per socket, so more impressive. The only US-designed CPU "exotics" are the Intel Xeon Max CPU
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
This is quite different. The last time when China had the fastest supercomputer, it was more than 20 times slower than this one and more than 8 times less efficient in energy consumption. Moreover, its capability was overestimated by the Li
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Despite what it says at that link, it is more likely to be based on Armv9.3-A ISA, because it supports SME. In the CPU cores designed by the Arm company, SME has been added only in the latest generation of Armv9.3-A CPUs, which was launched
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
As I have mentioned, and as described in TFA, this supercomputer is also leading in memory bandwidth (4 TB/s per socket => correction, it is 8 Tb/s per socket). I agree with what you say about benchmarks, but that is precisely

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