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by voidspark 1y ago
Gemini refers specifically to a family of multimodal LLMs, which is exactly what they are using here. They have other models with different names used for different purposes. https://ai.google/get-started/our-models&#x2
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by voidspark 1y ago
300% single core performance from Haswell (2015) to today.
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by voidspark 1y ago
Single core performance has improved about 10x in 20 years
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by voidspark 1y ago
As the other guy said, top of the line CPUs today are roughly ~100x faster than 20 years ago. A single core is ~10x faster (in terms of instructions per second) and we have ~10x the number of cores.
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by voidspark 1y ago
128 MB was almost unheard of back then. Pentium 66 - 1993 Pentium 90 - 1994 Pentium 166 - 1996 More than doubled the performance in 3 years. Two orders of magnitude from 1990 - 2000. There was no multi-CPU Pentium. Not until the Pentium Pro
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by voidspark 1y ago
We don't know if it is losing money. It's a private company. He reduced the headcount to roughly what it was in 2017. At the time of the acquisition, many of the employees were in non technical roles, contributing nothing of value
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by voidspark 1y ago
> slightly beefed up (say, dual or quad CPU) typical early ‘90s gear. Early 90's Intel was the 486 33 Mhz. It barely had enough performance to run the TCP/IP stack at a few hundred KB/sec, using all of the CPU just for th
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by voidspark 1y ago
Because the comment you replied to never mentioned GitHub. I thought you didn’t know the difference. Linus created Git.
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by voidspark 1y ago
GitHub is not Git. Git is by far the most widely used VCS. The majority of code hosting services use it.
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by voidspark 1y ago
All of their photolithography equipment is manufactured in the Netherlands by ASML https://www.asml.com/en Other companies are using the same equipment (Samsung and Intel) but TSMC has deeper expertise and got more out of t
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by voidspark 1y ago
TSMC factories use ASML hardware (designed and built in the Netherlands), that actually produces the chips. https://www.asml.com/en TSMC is running a successful business but they're not the only customers of ASML.
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by voidspark 1y ago
In this case it means research, as it pertains to universities.
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by voidspark 1y ago
The article explains that the lab would support universities by providing infrastructure.
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by voidspark 1y ago
"LLM" is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
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by voidspark 1y ago
It's a mundane corporate feature request and quite reasonable and valid.
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by voidspark 1y ago
This is interesting https://chatgpt.com/share/68219da9-1e78-8007-b083-8a81bfbea2... "Dendrites can implement non‑linear sub‑units and even logic‑gate‑like behavior before the soma integrates them, whereas the stan
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by voidspark 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959553
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by voidspark 1y ago
That is your assumption and it is wrong. https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_ab498084-58c4-4345-9140-07b5... Biological Neuron: Processes information through complex, nonlinear integration of thousands of excitatory and in
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by voidspark 1y ago
Neurons are surprisingly not simple. Vastly more complex than the ultra simplified model in artificial neural networks.
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by voidspark 1y ago
It was due to many reasons, including taxes.
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by voidspark 1y ago
I live on the opposite side of the world from the US. I’m not American. No freedom of speech in my country. I think you got the facts mixed up. The person who wrote the op ed was not an American citizen and they were not jailed, they were o
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by voidspark 1y ago
> How is making a country have hate speech laws somehow causing wars to emerge? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
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by voidspark 1y ago
Yes. “Hate speech” has a specific legal definition in the US. Holocaust denial is not hate speech. People should be allowed to question a historic event. People should be allowed to think.
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by voidspark 1y ago
In the US that is free speech which is allowed under the First Amendment.
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by voidspark 1y ago
You have no idea. Infosec in my company would ask for this.
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by voidspark 1y ago
It helps to prevent accidental sharing of confidential information.
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by voidspark 1y ago
> Not a museum That is two museums. It's in the title: "Hands-On Vintage Technology Museums" and mentioned all over the front page.
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by voidspark 1y ago
> Index funds will sell if the valuation drop No. The big index funds fully replicate the index. They will drop Tesla only if Tesla is dropped from the index. Tesla is currently up by 1150% since 2019.
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by voidspark 1y ago
Archive, library, and museum are three different things.
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by voidspark 1y ago
The majority of Tesla shares are held by institutional investors, and most of those are passive investors, holding it long term. Tesla is included in multiple index funds, including those tracking the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100.

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