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This is not just about the Sun. As we progress towards developing nuclear fusion reactors, a better understanding of the underlying physics may have practical implications for reac…

Subsidies (via tax or lack thereof) on aeroplane fuel is one that really does get overlooked. Yet on the other hand, use a few gallons in a car and you're demonised as a climate vi…

Having experienced a customer support AI today that whatever option you picked initially led to the AI, which had the rigid helpfulness of a McDonalds script of "Would you like fri…

Reminds me of a company (FTSE100) in the early 2000s that had an internal network IP range that used the same IP range as another company, turned out the person who did the network…

With AI models like Mixture of Experts, many of those experts will be the real target here, as polished, refined and little to no change, they become fine candidates for being lock…

Whilst these coding models improve, they seem to cater for multiple languages, and for many, a trimmed-down LLM that supports just one language would be fantastic. This would be sm…

Which is why N-version programming is often used for systems that need to work (like plane software) and even then, as we know today, it can not be perfect. Google "plane software …

Whilst true, it's not without its gotchas, and I saw a video the other day that elegantly highlights this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6MAZW-joCo . A false sense of confidence…

Having worked in COBOL extensivly in the 80s and 90s, as well as working for a software house that did migrations (Craziest was Plan assembler to Dec Vax C). I do wonder how an amb…

My ironic humour hopes https://www.roba-kids.com/en/collections/sandpit appears as an advert with them.

Trident 2 (article says used 8 of these chips), and google says around 400-424 made, so easily would have soaked up 4000 of these CPUs with spares alone. So if anything, the produc…

That number was probably shaped by minimum production-run requirements, alongside the need for software development units, along with other factors, like the use in Trident II and …

Process-intensive, but higher compression has clear strategic value. Distant satellites such as Voyager, where bandwidth is severely limited, could transmit more data using such ca…

As it is, scalpers/bots have been cashing in for a while, coining it from cashed-up people, so flipping that would make sense by a company and taking advantage of that to help redu…

Interesting, as it sounds like a lottery reservation system, which is kinda a neat way to deal with many issues. I'm always supprised that companies don't do a tiered price release…

They produce drugs whose patents have expired; drugs still under patent are something they mostly avoid. The term for 3rd party versions of these drugs are often referred to as `ge…

Saw this and does seem the screen tipped the balance here, which is understandable. Maybe if framework had a better screen without the touch overheads as an option(which I'm sure t…

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All set for a perfect storm with a single exploit down the line. Which could take out so much and OpenAI with it. What a way to burst the bubble, not an if, more a when as so many …

I contracted for ICL around the time it was acquired by Fujitsu, working opposite the Post Office developers, some of whom were still learning C++ as they went. I later worked at t…

Good article. I particularly like the line, "early exposure to experts reduces delusional confidence", which is very true. It helps prevent a flawed Occam’s razor mindset, where pe…

Does feel like OpenAI are on a - too the moon or bust direction currently and equally does also feel they are too big to go bust as if they wobble, the enture stack of bubbles cola…

Sora was a loss-loss-leader to a loss-leader product with added liability exposure ontop. Was wise to bail on it as the resource demands are crazy for video gen with AI, and to get…

like Neo from the Martix, it has only one interface port of real use.