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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The amount of glycine that accompanies the at most a few hundred milligrams of magnesium per day that you might want to use as supplement is relatively small in comparison with the glycine content of most kinds of food that you eat anyway.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> The IP problem is one of the central obstacles to closing the gap between simulation and production reality. > “Whoever is manufacturing has to give or disclose their secret material properties to our simulation tool, and then we ca
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
That can prove only a half of that sentence, that an AI coding assistant was used for writing the exploit (a.k.a. "weaponization"). For the other half of the sentence ("discovery"), one could claim that it is true only i
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
This only indicates that an AI coding agent was used to write an exploit. No such circumstantial evidence can prove that an AI model has been used to find the bug. Of course, it is quite likely that an AI model was used to speed up the sear
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Nit pick: the Egyptian writing system never had any symbols for syllables. The phonetic symbols included in the Egyptian writing system represented 1 consonant or 2 consonants or 3 consonants, not syllables. Any syllables or short syllable
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While the proto-writing systems are based on pictograms, both the Sumenrian cuneiforms and the Egyptian hieroglyphic (used for inscriptions on stone) and hieratic (use for writing with a reed brush on papyrus) have made the transition towar
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Numerous and complex symbols are characteristic for the earliest scripts. The refined scripts typically use fewer and simpler symbols. The only exceptions to this tendency towards standardization and simplification are in the case of some s
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I believe that it is undesirable to ingest excessive amounts of chlorides. Normally, the amount of chloride intake should not exceed the amount of sodium intake, i.e. one should not ingest other chlorides except table salt. The normal amoun
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Placebo effect may exist for someone who claims to sleep better with it, but there are effects that are definitely not placebo. In the water that I drink in the morning I dissolve small quantities of powders of magnesium bisglycinate and po
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
In TFA it is said that the C version used "-ffast-math" for the compiler to generate fused multiply-add operations. ML/AI is one of the few applications where the use of "-ffast-math" may be acceptable, but in gener
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I believe that these spammers now concentrate their efforts towards e-mail addresses hosted by major providers, like Gmail. The reason is that I have an opposite experience, during the last couple of years I have received much less spam mes
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Many of the open-weights LLMs accept either text or images as input. Besides those, there are a few smaller open-weights models that are dedicated for OCR tasks, for instance DeepSeek-OCR-2 and IBM granite-vision-4.1-4b. (They can be found
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The 8-bit monolithic CPUs of the seventies all had a few thousands transistors. The first generation of true 16-bit CPUs, i.e. Intel 8086, Motorola MC68000 and Zilog Z8000, had almost an order of magnitude more transistors, i.e. in the rang
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I do not remember the exact number of transistors in MC 68000, but I think that it was less than 40000, so not just slightly smaller. In any case, it had more than twice as many transistors as Zilog Z8000, which was super-optimized for size
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
See my other comment above. No citation is needed when you see the changes with your own eyes, which happened at least in Europe, where I live.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I am old enough to have witnessed how the climate has completely changed in Europe, where I live. In the same place where I live now, when I was young there was permanent snow cover for 3 to 4 months. During the last 10 years, there have be
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Nope. The bug appears to have been introduced in some FreeBSD 13 version. I run FreeBSD servers that do not have this bug. In my "kern_exec.c" there is no "consume" anywhere. There is also no "memmove" at all.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
A much older language that does not have operator precedence is APL. This is the right choice for a language with a great number of operators. In C they have tried to minimize the number of parentheses in expressions, but for this they have
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Actually the column-major order of Fortran is more efficient for some linear algebra operations than the order of C, which has been inherited by many modern languages that do not care about high performance in scientific computations. So I
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Yes, this was also exactly what I have thought while reading TFA.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Panther Lake does not have new CPU cores. The Panther Lake cores, i.e. Darkmont and Cougar Cove are the Arrow Lake/Lunar Lake cores, i.e. Skymont and Lion Cove, ported from the TSMC 3 nm to the Intel 18A fabrication process. The Panthe
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Besides the fact that Lunar Lake has a lower consumption in the memory interface, which has nothing to do with the fabrication process, single-thread benchmarks cannot be used to compare CPU fabrication processes. Both the absolute performa
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The performance with LNL is not apples-to-apples, like the comparison with Arrow Lake H. LNL has a much lower power consumption in the memory interface, like the Apple CPUs, which has nothing to do with the fabrication process. Also LNL is
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I do not know on what data you base your sentence "Intel's own Panther Lake CPU tile is on 18A and it's extremely disappointing in terms of perf/watt and raw perf." Panther Lake does not have great raw performance,
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
There is a reason why such a pattern is frequent in LLM-generated text. Any good human-written text that provides useful information is likely to highlight in this way or in equivalent ways the contrast between what the reader is expected t
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Any high-gain amplifier can be used, with its input connected to a resistor or a diode. For instance you can use the microphone input of a PC, together with an additional external amplifier made with an audio amplifier integrated circuit or
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Those 173 were all that were sold ...
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While browsers like Chrome and Firefox normally render very well on-screen any Web page, it is enough to give them the "Print" command for that page, to see in most cases a badly rendered page, where the size ratios of various ele
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
In any technical/scientific document I do not want to increase or decrease the size of any element, e.g. of one of the fonts. You only want to do an overall proportional zoom, when needed. A well-designed document page has appropriate
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
HTML and EPUB work not great, but very badly for scientific or technical papers or books. No two readers render them alike, and they typically are much uglier and more difficult to use than books (sometimes even the same book) in PDF, DJVU

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