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by twoodfin 2y ago
What is the bull case for a Cloud-based quantum computing offer? Are there really billions of dollars of workloads out there that have any realistic chance of migrating to IBM quantum tech within a decade? Two decades?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I think text vs. link used to be XOR, but isn’t any longer. It’s still outside the hn mainstream to use both in the same submission, so that might be biasing the model in strange ways.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Several commercial databases offer this capability, under a term like “frozen plans”.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Coming from a position of extreme Rust ignorance & C++ brain poisoning: Here’s the issue: waiting_for_elements is a Vec<Waker>. The channel cannot know how many tasks are blocked, so we can’t use a fixed-size array. Using a Vec m
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Registered organizations like the New York Times Company?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
For one thing, combining vector similarity ranking and traditional WHERE clause conditions in the same query is tremendously useful. “This customer has called our support line 20 times in the past year, pop up the most relevant prior ticket
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Kaiser’s effectively an HMO, right? Consumers (i.e. employees evaluating their corporate benefits) hated HMO’s at their peak in the ’90’s so much that the initials became politically toxic. Cheaper plans with more restrictions could exist
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I think the more interesting architecture / priorities question is why the Go compiler can't yet(?) auto-vectorize?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Stay for the end and the hilarious idea that OpenAI’s board could declare one day that they’ve created AGI simply to weasel out of their contract with Microsoft.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
There’s a somewhat heterodox theory that rather than some kind of AI moonshot, the Fifth Generation project was an attempt to build an alternative interaction model to Latin alphabet keyboards feeding teletypes. The idea (supposedly) was th
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Having the capacity to hold & deliver live warheads doesn’t mean it’s exercising that capability today. Anyway this is all incredibly speculative. Nobody knows the real strategic purposes of this thing.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
You may be right, but tell it to the Strategic Air Command: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_USAF_Bomb_Wings_and_Wi...
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Without a deeper analysis, that’s an argument to scuttle our missile subs, too. I mean, it’s an argument to be had, but the advantages of a dominant multi-modal nuclear arsenal go beyond binary assurance of mutual destruction in total war—
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by twoodfin 2y ago
It would be another leg in the triad—presumably obsoleting strategic bombers for most potential scenarios. All the legs have trade-offs, which is why you want more than one: Silos are immobile. Bombers are slow, limited-range and vulnerable
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Slack seems to be getting off too easy here. The security—as implemented by Fortune 500 customers??—of an org-wide security domain (i.e. what everyone in an org can see) depends on whether any of the supported OAuth providers can be tricked
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Obviously it’s going to vary from program to program. And you always have to be skeptical that removing the safety for performance hasn’t given you a faster but faulty program. That being said, my intuition matches what little anecdotal dat
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Yup, same as economic power/wealth.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
You don’t elect a lot of the people with power, either. My point is we worry a lot about outliers in a wealth distribution but not the outliers in a power distribution (some people, of course, being outliers in both!) And that seems misguid
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by twoodfin 2y ago
It occurs to me that if you charted a distribution of political power (pick your metric for that…) it’d look about the same. A few thousand state and federal officials, rich businessmen with influence, lobbyists, union leaders, … At the far
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by twoodfin 2y ago
CM-Lisp was closer to that vision, though it was never (TMK) fully implemented, unlike StarLisp. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870
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by twoodfin 2y ago
I’d estimate that fraction of Nvidia’s dominance that’s dependent on their distinctive advantages in kernel primitives (add vs. multiply) would be a rounding error in FP8. The CUDA tooling and ecosystem, VLSI architecture, organizational pr
952.
by twoodfin 2y ago
The symmetry or lack thereof between mirrored “left-handed/right-handed” phenomena is a deep problem up and down the physical world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Is that oral history actually available for download?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Dell seems to be doing OK.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Here's a choice bit of stream-of-consciousness from the "Lotus Eaters" episode, as Mr. Bloom is contemplating the wares at a tea shop on a balmy June morning: ... So warm. His right hand once more more slowly went over again
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Did you make it past the opening Stephen-centered chapters? I bounced off “Proteus” for years, but as soon as I managed to struggle on to “Calypso” and the mind & habits of Mr. Leopold Bloom I was off to the races.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Taking “best” to mean, “About to be banished to a small, rocky island in the North Atlantic, can pack one book”: Ulysses , and it’s not particularly close. The book is fractally intricate and intellectually puzzling in the best sense—somet
958.
by twoodfin 2y ago
Yeah but a couple centuries? What’s the evidence for exhaustion of demand and supply for economic goods on that kind of time horizon.
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by twoodfin 2y ago
Sorry, which limits? How do those apply to the increasing economic value of turning the same amount of sand into faster and faster GPUs, for example?
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by twoodfin 2y ago
You couldn’t “request a jury trial”. That was the point of the suit. Yes, civil penalties are a thing. But the argument that prevailed was that this was not a penalty for speeding or not paying enough tax, this was a penalty for alleged act

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