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by thunderbird120 3y ago
>You think that land would be inhabited if it had commuter trains? Yes, considering the distributed nature of the US's population pre-dates the car. Go look at a population density map from 1900. Tons of primarily agricultural small
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Complaining about inefficiency and suggesting transforming most of the US's very efficient private freight rail system into nationalized passenger rail in the same comment is certainly an interesting position. The nationalized systems
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Don't get used to it. N3E has no SRAM density improvement over N5 and its TSMC's "real" N3 node since N3B (Base) is prohibitively expensive for all but the very richest customers. N3B is such an economic dead end of a no
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
>It also needs extensive overhaul after every flight to maintain stealth coating. There is no "quick refual/arm" with stealth, it is more like operating Space Shuttle! I don't know where you heard that but it's c
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
They're getting downvoted for lots of good reasons and linking to the production of a relatively unsophisticated and disposable loitering munition and then talking about air-warfare does not help. To name a few: 1) Drones do not have t
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
To state the obvious, total revenue does not tell you if a company is actually making money. If operating costs exceed revenue you lose money. It doesn't matter how much revenue you're making. Given the costs required to run twitc
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
People are starting to come to terms with the new reality where tech companies actually need to have a viable business model which takes in more money than it expends. The return of nonzero interest rates means that the runway is no longer
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Let me speak as someone who has published quite a bit of research using information derived from EHR data, most of which was ICD codes. EHR data is fucking terrible. The quality is laughably bad. Despite there being standards for when speci
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
I don't think there are any serious groups which are not acting like the pandemic is over by all practical standards. Variants descended from the Spanish flu still infect and kill people but that pandemic is not ongoing. The point at w
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Material poverty is an absolute measure, not a relative one. A country in which 100% of people earn exactly $1 a day is not somehow less poor than the United States
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
> In this table, poverty is being measured as the percent of the population falling below one half of a particular country’s median household income. That is a measure of income inequality... not poverty. Here is a measure of inflation a
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Fun fact, most earthworms in North America are invasive. In entire large regions of the country in which we think of earthworms as being common, they mostly didn't exist until European colonization https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Improvements in corrosion management, better machining, better materials, and competition from automakers providing longer and longer warranties has driven up the number of miles you can expect a new car to drive before encountering major p
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Not really, thrust vectoring is separate from what they're doing here. Thrust vectoring allows you to literally use thrust from the engine to push the plane in different directions, this is a bit more subtle. Basically you can use litt
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
People often complain that modern consumer goods don't last as long as they used to but that's certainly not true for cars. Modern cars last dramatically longer than cars from the 20th century. It's kind of amazing.
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Kinzhals are just air launched Iskander short ranged ballistic missiles. Russia calling them hypersonic weapons is technically accurate but misleading, as when people refer to hypersonic weapons they typically refer to weapons capable of su
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
Never repeating your training data is what you'd ideally like to do for training basically any ML model. If you do that you don't really need to worry about overfitting since the model is constantly trying to fit a stream of new d
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
I just asked a stability employee and they said the the current models ran into an overfitting issue probably due to some duplicated data somewhere in their dataset, which consists of 1.5T tokens. The 800B tokens is the number of tokens the
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by thunderbird120 3y ago
>"the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, says further progress will not come from making models bigger. “I think we're at the end of the era where it's going to be these, like, giant, giant models,” he told an audience at an event
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
Even the density figures are mostly lies. For example TSMCs N5 is closer to 134MTr/mm2 in the real world[1]. It can also depend on the chip design itself. Some designs may scale better than others because not all transistors get the sa
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
None of those were core to Intel's business in the way GPUs are likely going to be going forward. The closer integration of CPUs and GPUs is an industry wide trend with Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all trying to eliminate the need to
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
>TSMC and Samsung have adapted to new generations without any real hiccups Samsung has been having serious issues for years and TSMC is currently having serious issues with N3. Samsung's issues are too complicated and longstanding t
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
Rapidly shrinking populations as a result of low birth rates do the exact opposite of increasing average quality of life. You end up with an entire country full of old people who can't work and an increasingly small number of young peo
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
Quite the contrary, income growth post-covid has disproportionately favored lower income groups[1]. White collar working professionals captured a disproportionate amount of the growth from the previous recovery as a result of over inflated
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
The near term anti-ship armament would be LRASMs, which are not actually very large. A B-1 can carry 24 of them internally at one time and the B-2 can carry 16. The B-21 is smaller but still large enough for a good load. 12 or more would no
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
I doubt it. The B-2 was cut because the cold war ended and because it was absurdly expensive to maintain thanks to its 1980s stealth tech. The radar-absorbent material used for the B-2 degraded very quickly and it's a large aircraft, s
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
No, it almost definitely isn't. The cost-benefit analysis of doing that completely fails at almost every imaginable level. Not only would it fail to increase American nuclear strike/retaliation capabilities by any meaningful margi
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
Not exactly, what's happening is vaguely fourier-like but I'm not even sure there's an actual name for what it's doing.
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
Stolen from 4chan. Not malicious, just prints out a string, but in terms of code density is simultaneously some of the smartest and dumbest code I've ever seen. Bonus points if you can actually figure out exactly how it works. #inc
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by thunderbird120 4y ago
They're definitely not huge right now and I haven't seen any viable paths toward them becoming a big thing any time in the near future. There's barely any work being put into them relative to other stuff in the field. HP made

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