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SideQuark
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Comment #49204678
Have you ever built a NN model? Have you ever broken a crypto system, even a small one?
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Comment #49204658
There are plenty of algorithms that quantum algorithms give no benefit to. Quantum is NOT a free for all making everything faster. It’s only faster at two very,very restricted thin…
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Comment #49140429
You’re not giving it to a banker, you’re trading risk for return and flexibility. One can access savings at any time, any amount. Not true with bonds, maybe if you fiddle with indi…
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Comment #49131954
Single event upsets are forced on you by physics. There is no possible way to stop them all.
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Comment #48985093
> Put all of these trends together, and I think that in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) running models doing pretty much anything that frontier models …
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Comment #48980672
That's not recursion. And reversing arrows on this category turns base cases into co-base, or start cases, (and these are still often called base cases in the literature), so it is…
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Comment #48966812
… which needs a terminating case, which cannot be not defined as the same recursion.
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Comment #48875953
> What is it doing to feed my family in burundi? That it has not solved everyone's problems on the planet is no argument it against what it has provided more than any other system.…
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Comment #48872869
It's because the underlying optimizer follows patterns in LLVM, which is used for a lot of languages, most applicable here is C/C++, and bit things like this are used a lot for per…
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Comment #48872840
Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for …
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Comment #48872794
And then you summarized > 4% of ~40B times 12 years = $19B. as if this might be close to reasonable estimate of the profit off these farm repair contracts. But you pulled that reas…
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Comment #48870115
> … so there's a physical process that's undecidable. No, since you cannot physically build a Turing Machine. A Turing machine requires infinite tape. Any physically realizable mac…
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Comment #48853888
Go pull their financials, stop pulling nonsense out of thin air.
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Comment #48853862
I looked over their financials. You conjectured out of feelings and ignorance. Calling my evidence naive, when you are simply making things up, is ludicrous. Go do some legwork, ge…
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Comment #48839803
Last year was 5b net profit on 44b revenue. Attributing more than a tiny fraction of profit to the right to repair stuff is wild dreams, given the amount of physical goods they sel…
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Comment #48837363
Ah, trying to move the goalposts huh? What’s the number of Teslas sold per year? Declining year over year as others have grown significantly. Profit margin sans regulatory issues? …
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Comment #48830150
This feels like the “we should make an internet company that ships pet food to anyone, anywhere!” of the 21st century.
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Comment #48830117
You’re claiming in 10 years they made something others won’t for another century? This has no historical precedent. China is going to eat them, just like they ate Teslas insurmount…
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Comment #48806645
Rent vs own is about price. If you want to own something, digital, physical, information, goods, then a vendor will charge more, sometimes a lot more, to sell you an infinite owner…
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Comment #48797929
If it's on the stack, it's almost free to do. If it's held by a unique_ptr, then it auto frees, but there is a lot of programmer work to ensure things behave well, and there are nu…
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Comment #48787070
It's interesting you cut out the "There’s plenty of papers showing exactly this." then pretended the rest is simply ignorant belief. > the businesses that won during the 2000-24 pe…
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Comment #48780526
So you replace a loop that delivers last mile goods to a lot of cars going decently out of their way to the limited places just to pick one item? Surely it’s less miles driven when…
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Comment #48777623
Yes, there is always an issue upsampling since you have to make up new values. For downsampling by an integral factor, you have honest samples at those times, but any other rate wi…
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Comment #48768032
I take it you don't know much about frequency time tradeoffs. It is not possible to convert 48 khz to 44 khz without approximation. And there is incredible room to design filters t…
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Comment #48755247
It’s not that cynical. The author didn’t test on the most common rate in use, so it would be ludicrous for any serious project to wholesale replace a decades old working pipeline w…