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901.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
In most industries, especially in electronics and computers, the more you consume, the less you pay. Companies like Google or Amazon pay for a server computer only a small fraction of the price I would have to pay to buy it. Similarly for a
902.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
This has been used for centuries. It is not a new invention. Hundreds of years ago, it was not unusual to publish an encrypted solution of some mathematical problem, in order to establish priority without disclosing the algorithm that was u
903.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
Nit pick: there are CUDA extensions for multiple programming languages, e.g. Fortran, but indeed the CUDA extension for C++ is the most widely used. This is similar how there are OpenMP extensions for multiple languages, but the one for C&#
904.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
This does not demonstrate anything. It is just additional evidence that the C standard contains contradictory rules about "unsigned" integers. The oldest parts of the C language are all consistent with "unsigned" numbers
905.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
Nope. It was undefined what happens at unsigned overflows and underflows. Therefore a compiler could choose to implement "unsigned" as either non-negative numbers or as integer residues. The fact that "sizeof" is unsigne
906.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
That is right. While C like in many other places fails to define the correct behavior to avoid shaming the processor or compiler makers that fail to provide it, there are only 2 correct behaviors on overflows and underflows, like when incre
907.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
You are perfectly right, but neither C nor C++ nor many more recent languages derived from them have non-negative integers. The so-called "unsigned" integers of C are integer residues, where each value can be interpreted either a
908.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
The C language does not have any data type that has the property "can't be negative". Signed integers can be negative. The so-called "unsigned" integers of C are integer residues modulo 2^N, which are neither positi
909.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
Indexing does that, but the indices must vary in a certain range, whose limits are frequently determined by using something like "sizeof(array)/sizeof(element)" which is an unsigned number. This is especially inconvenient in
910.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
The theories from before WWII of Walter Schottky were indeed an important step in the development of semiconductor physics. Besides Schottky there are a great number of other people who had critical contributions towards the development of
911.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
All the known history of humans is evidence against the possibility of existence of "beneficial surveillance". This is a utopian idea of the same kind as the idea of theoretical communism. The communist theory argued that because
912.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
It is an arms race. For some of the latest models the previous abliteration techniques, e.g. the heretic tool, have stopped working (at least this was the status a few weeks ago). Of course, eventually someone might succeed to find methods
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> Senior German military officials told Reuters they were surprised by the announcement that followed what they described as constructive meetings at the Pentagon earlier in the day. > They point to the fact that Germany allowed US ov
914.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
Intel 8080 was launched in April 1974 and the development system for it, "Intellec 8 Mod 80", was available soon after that. CP/M could be developed only after the launch of the 8080 and the delivery of the development system
915.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
As a general rule, also the amount of physical memory installed in a computer should be proportional with the number of hardware threads provided by its CPU. Besides the fact that the operating system may allocate some memory for each threa
916.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
Some smaller models from the LFM2.5 family have been published on Huggingface by the end of March, a month ago. It can be assumed that this larger model takes more time to complete post-training, but it will follow in the near future after
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The materials that you could use in a 3d printer are not rigid enough. The blades of the fans are fiber-reinforced, in order to have sufficient rigidity, even when very thin. Only a 3D printer for metals could print something rigid enough,
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Indeed, the main reason why I choose Noctua fans from those that are silent enough and efficient enough is because I trust their reliability. I still have computers from 2017, with Kaby Lake CPUs, which have been used as servers and in whic
919.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
The benchmarks do not tell everything. I have used Noctua fans in computers where they worked for a decade or so, even 24x7, until an upgrade or replacement of the computer was required by other reasons than because of the fans. I have also
920.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
There is also its companion: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional automatic speech translation (AST) for English, Frenc
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
This is very true. The origin of the semiconductor industry of USA is in the WWII military research for microwave detectors used in radars. The vacuum diodes were no longer useful at such high frequencies, so it was attempted to make better
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The seal for honey has only the role to prevent it to absorb water from air. As long as honey retains its original water content, it will not spoil. In sufficiently dry air, you could keep honey without a seal. For most sealed food, the int
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The paradoxes of Zeno are caused by his lack of understanding of the symmetry between zero and infinity. It is also possible that he actually understood more than is apparent from his paradoxes, but those were intended only to troll the oth
924.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
There is a good solution for long term energy storage: use solar energy to make synthetic hydrocarbons. This is a solution that has been proven for billions of years. We can already capture solar energy at a much better energy efficiency th
925.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
In-house EMC testing is practically always required before you go to an external lab, unless you want to waste a lot of money by discovering at the lab that your device cannot be certified. When done just for this purpose, it can be done mu
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
You just repeat the original justification for patents. The current practice of patents is very different. Most patents are not filed by inventors, but by the employers of inventors, and most of those companies do not file patents for the p
927.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
I always use only custom compiled kernels on my computers, where I enable only the configuration options that I really need. So the options related to AF_ALG have always been disabled, because I have not encountered an application that need
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Even at your link it immediately says that there are 2 kinds of automata (a.k.a. FSMs): deterministic and non-deterministic. In the former, the transition function provides the next state, while in the latter the transition function only pr
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
While using "monads" in functional languages is a neat trick, I do not like them. In my opinion, the concept of automaton is fundamental and it deserves equal standing with the concept of function (even if it is a higher level con
930.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
True. I have worked during several decades in many companies, located in many countries, in a few continents, from startups to some of the biggest companies in their fields. Therefore I have seen many proprietary programs. On average, propr

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