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by dsign 4y ago
This. Even assuming AMD had support for something as mature and battle-tested as CUDA, a CUDA engineer may consider the price of these cards a no-brainer.
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by dsign 4y ago
> That said, the real value of cloud services is you can sometimes get more done with 2TB of RAM for 4 hours than you can with 32GB of RAM for 4 months. All without the need to have that much computing power anywhere near you. I know tha
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by dsign 4y ago
I'm going to be the dissenting voice here. The connector is shoddy, and it's good entertainment value for me personally who can't afford the card. But that beast of a card, despite all the amps and watts it swallows, is a ver
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by dsign 4y ago
I was reading "The Collapse of Complex Societies," and at some point the author states that complexity is correlated with (skill) specialization... There is nothing wrong with having specialized skills, but blindly believing that
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by dsign 4y ago
> It's just far more efficient to build solar PV arrays on the ground, and to keep power on 24/7, build enough to store the energy for later use at night and in the winter. Throwing all that mass into orbit, even if in low-Eart
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by dsign 4y ago
I like that this article puts the data on the table. I have no idea about what is the exact mechanism for the issue, but as the article notes, girls and boys have slightly different intellects. Furthermore, the eyes-of-the-beholder (teacher
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by dsign 4y ago
IMO, fibers with very high tensile strength have only two applications worth speaking of: a) Space elevators (but the tensile strength required for that is too high and we are still not close enough), and b) Large O'Neill cylinders, in
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by dsign 4y ago
This is not Meta demanding to see some privilege information that exists in Simula's drawers, but rather commandeering the entire competing organization to do market research for Meta. It is clever and evil, and nothing anybody says af
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by dsign 4y ago
That blows my mind. I'm allowed to spend $10 in a bottle of alcohol or a packet or cigarettes, no questions asked, but I'm not allowed to spend those $10 in stocks of a tiny company unless I'm able to demonstrate that I sleep
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by dsign 4y ago
I see the ad, and I'm not amused. I would be more at ease if the line said "You know what? We need money after all this browser-making. Give us yours and we will let you go on with your day."
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by dsign 4y ago
Yes, because they must work for the organism. No, because they don't have consciousness. So, they are less of a slave than, say, our cat.
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by dsign 4y ago
"Corrupt" is a human notion, nature doesn't exist by our concepts. One has to look at history to learn that albeit the human condition is messed up, it is less so these days of what it used to be. And no, the faults of the wo
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by dsign 4y ago
It is a matter of faith. Some people will believe that a rustic life is paradise. Most people who have experienced such life by necessity disagree. Some people may believe that they have it as good as it gets and would want no more. Three d
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by dsign 4y ago
This problem is not so hard to fix, neither so easy. First, raising children shouldn't be an onerous business for two or just one; the current monogamous family is a construct from a few religions with outsize cultural influence (Parad
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by dsign 4y ago
Any bio-processes that you can think of. For example, spiders fabricate ultra-strong fibers using a few cubic millimeters. Compare that volume to the smallest Kevlar factory we can set up. A lot of applications will be about designing or ad
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by dsign 4y ago
I'm gonna check that book, I bet I will learn a lot. I sometimes wonder how we are going to solve the scaling problems around silicon and energy for this kind of AI applications. Think about this: a life-saving cancer drug may need to
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by dsign 4y ago
Here is another idea no loving human being should like: humans are guilty of everything bad in the world. Last thought of a dying zebra in the maws of the lion: "damn humans."
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by dsign 4y ago
The main culprit of torture and executions was that human life was cheap and more or less trivial. A person was born and left to survive by their own devices, each rascal being replaceable by the next. Death was abundant: plague, famine, wa
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by dsign 4y ago
> Indian action films typically don't strive for believable action scenes, like American films do. I'm taking your "believable American action scenes" with a big semi full of salt.
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by dsign 4y ago
After the attempt of Apple of using "neural search" to spy on its customers, the term has been left with a bad rep.
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by dsign 4y ago
People don't need life-extending drugs to hold onto power or ways of doing things, that's what dynasties are for. And if in a democracy somebody like J.D. Rockefeller gets a voice that is too loud, then the democracy is flawed and
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by dsign 4y ago
I like the ending words: > History shows that such progress is unnatural, and typically dies quickly. I once was reading a piece of fiction where, at some time in the future, progress had stopped entirely and was regressing, even if ther
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by dsign 4y ago
I think that your and your friend's argument reduces to "the AI is not a human, but a machine-like, and thus can not be `inspired' but only `reproduce'". I don't know if it is a novel argument to be tried in a
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by dsign 4y ago
When somebody asks about what is the next big thing, I always think on anti-aging. If you think that you don’t want to live forever, imagine that today when you arrive home you find a note saying that you will die exactly 1531[^1] days from
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by dsign 4y ago
I agree, this would be an incredible tool. I can see how some of the outputs may help me improve a piece I'm working on, even if I would never use the model's output for my final product.
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by dsign 4y ago
Small nitpick: > the abhorrent treatment of Alan Turning by the British Government. What the British Government did to him reflected what the people who elected that government thought at the time; it was in-line with the moral and civic
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by dsign 4y ago
Haven't read the top, but increasingly I'm obsessed with something that sounds similar: "Life as a computation." All the adaptive properties of a living organism can (very rudely) be imagined as "if" statements
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I think we are taking this wrong. Nature's real problem is that they get too many submissions and they need a way to weed them out. They will do that even by offending the cultural minority that prefers truth over ultimate political co
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Funny that you say that. I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings and I have a grudge with the ring(s), because all I'm thinking is that Sauron is a misunderstood magic engineer that managed to fit a miracle of power into the tiny spa
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by dsign 4y ago
Fantasy writers hate the guts of our real world because it is far beyond their story about a poor kid discovering magic to set bushes on fire. And they still put said kid through “ordeals” which are about enduring the heartless magic teache

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