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by shagie 8mo ago
This is a confusion about what a "dinosaur" is. It is a particular branch of reptiles, not just an ancient one. The first dinosaurs were in the Triassic (roughly 240 mya). It was likely the Permian-Triassic extinction that open
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by shagie 8mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c... > For Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm at home," he recently told a visitin
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by shagie 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray > Cray avoided publicity. There are a number of unusual tales about his life away from work, termed "Rollwagenisms", from then-CEO of Cray Research, John A. Rollw
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by shagie 8mo ago
I recall from my early days of reading the jargon file... maybe DWIM? http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html (that said, someone who used that version would have many gray hairs... I was reading about t
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by shagie 8mo ago
While playing with some variations on this, it feels like what I am seeing is that the answer is being chosen (e.g. "walk" is being selected) and then the rest of the text is used post-hoc to explain why it is "right." A
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by shagie 8mo ago
How about... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil > Ithkuil is an experimental constructed language created by John Quijada. It is designed to express more profound levels of human cognition briefly yet overtly and
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by shagie 8mo ago
> Maybe in the distant future we'll realize that the most reliable way to prompting LLMs are by using a structured language that eliminates ambiguity, it will probably be rather unnatural and take some time to learn. On the foolishn
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by shagie 8mo ago
(not disagreeing - commenting on the history of the term) Clanker has a history in Clone Wars. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Clanker Every time they say "clanker" in the first season of The Clone Wars ht
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Origin of "To Err Is Human; to Foul Things Up Requires a Computer" (2010)(quoteinvestigator.com)
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by shagie 9mo ago
While I knew that one off the top of my head... one of the neat "Show HN" that I recall from a bit ago: Show HN: Find the relevant Xkcd comic for your post using RAG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799291 &
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by shagie 9mo ago
The goal of the fictional societies is to explore what they could be and to challenge existing ideas. I'd suggest giving https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130 a read.
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by shagie 9mo ago
The relevant xkcd is Chat Systems https://xkcd.com/1810/
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by shagie 9mo ago
10 kW is something that could be household load (a backup generator for a home when there's a power outage). If one could put a DGX in my basement without issue (there's an idea - would you trust me with a DGX rack in my basement
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by shagie 9mo ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470678 (2020).
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The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space (2012)(cpushack.com)
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by shagie 9mo ago
(expanding on this) A little bit old... but not that old in the scale of things... The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space https://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html (that is still 2012) https://news.ycombin
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by shagie 9mo ago
How many times can you do that? Consider your own computer... how often does it get hot under a regular load and the fans kick on? That "fans kick on" is transferring the heat to air and jettisoning it into the room... and you&#x
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by shagie 9mo ago
There's very little on JWST that makes it hot . Furthermore, the spacecraft bus where the non-scientific instruments exist) is on the other side of the sunshade so that the waste heat from the RAD750 (a single processor clocked at 11
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by shagie 9mo ago
What is the power budget for that DGX. The power budget for ISS is 75–90 kW. If your DGX fridge needs more power, it will need similar capacity of solar and radiators. https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles&#x
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by shagie 9mo ago
You're describing cryogenic fuels there and dumping heat into them. Dumping heat (sparks, electricity) into liquid oxygen would not necessarily be the best of ideas. Dumping heat into liquid hydrogen wouldn't be explosive, but ra
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by shagie 9mo ago
It's worse than that (in terms of ping) because the typical "we get 100% solar" means that it's in a polar orbit over the dawn/dusk terminator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orb
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by shagie 9mo ago
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1008121639337320454 > [I recommend] all of them, especially Surface Detail
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by shagie 9mo ago
A solar panel deployed to space isn't deployed in its open / unframed configuration. Rather, it's sent in a way that is folded up into a compact volume and then unfolds into the full size. https://youtu.be/wk
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by shagie 9mo ago
Compare the cost of a RAD750 (the processor on the JWST) to its non rad hardened variant. Additionally, consider the processing power of that system to modern AI demands.
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by shagie 9mo ago
> Even the cheapest kind will superconduct in space (because it’s so cold). Space is not cold or hot - it isn't. It's a vacuum. Vacuum has no temperature, but objects in space reach temperatures set by radiative balance with
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by shagie 9mo ago
I'd also recommend the variant Wizard for this. Similar basic game and mechanics, though there are 8 additional cards to the 52 card deck - four wizards and four fools. A wizard can be played instead of any other card, the first wizar
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by shagie 9mo ago
He is very influenced by The Culture of Iain Banks. They're really good sci-fi... and describe a hedonistic world where machines do the hard thinking and bidding of the biologicals. https://recommentions.com/elon-mus
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by shagie 9mo ago
That paragraph was written in 2019 which predates LLM slop. Some people just write that way.
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by shagie 9mo ago
Pagat is a wonderful source for all things card games. https://www.pagat.com - in particular https://www.pagat.com/class/trick.html which at that level is the groups of games (under the trump group is
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by shagie 9mo ago
It is. I do. It is. My simple description of it is that its bridge with revealing cards for bidding and dynamic partnerships. There is an iOS version of it - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%BC/id35144838

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