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If by processing cores you mean Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), keep in mind that each SM is 128 threads, so 16 SMs is 2k threads - or 2048 single precision math ops per cycle. Th…

I never considered using my tinnitus as a perfect pitch reference. I’m pretty sure my tone changes over time, so it might not work for me, but I’m at least going to try. I love myn…

> it’s nasty … add fecal matter … you really think when you poop it just lands neatly in the bowl and nothing goes in the air? Mine does, but I like to aim in the bowl. You’re not …

> from ontological knowledge (naming and categorising) The example clearly is discussing naming and not categorizing, which is precisely why Feynman’s anecdote is not fully applica…

Yeah there is a little bit of irony versus the common narratives, though if you ask Google what type of economy these two countries are, it will tell you the Netherlands is a “soci…

> If there were another labelling system, it would have the same problems and would only serve to split the humans into multiple ways of doing the same thing. If that were true, th…

> You mean ethnicity I meant race. We’re only talking about skin color here. “Today, race refers to a group sharing some outward physical characteristics and some commonalities of …

Yes, true! Though cranking saturation doesn’t brighten colors (much… at least it’s not supposed to), and maybe interestingly, light brown isn’t quite orange. There might some asymm…

> What colors are we? The short answer is maybe something like “brown” and the long answer is very, very long. Pete Shirley (author of Ray Tracing In One Weekend) is also a part ti…

> at least have some kind of idea about your intended output. Isn’t that what a prompt literally is?

I think you’ve made incorrect assumptions, you’re wrong about some things here. Nobody said small waste should not be fixed, they said it wouldn’t move the needle. “We should stop …

> nor have I given that impression, to find individual examples of government waste and specifically fix those Yes, you did. You gave that impression when you said OP was right to …

Then we can have a discussion about how to fix it. You can’t even start with a discussion about fixes until you have nailed down the exact problem… obviously . It would help immens…

What need is there? What small-potato line items are wasteful?

It’s hard to have any serious discussion if you don’t care what’s true and simply have unsupported opinions. How do you actually know the government is wasting money? Do you have a…

You’re digging in your heels only because people here are trying to point out facts that you assume are challenging your broader point, and not because you believe the items are tr…

You did defend the specific items, you said so explicitly, you used the word “specific” in your previous comment, your first sentence said you are now “more convinced the OP was ri…

That’s pure straw man. There isn’t anyone against the working class in this thread, and there is anti-intellectualism in this thread. I don’t doubt there are some academics who are…

> your understanding is not required Whoa, how quickly have we forgotten how the AI is trained? > You get a fancy house […] society to labor just to support your class and its life…

I don’t want my tax dollars wasted. We do agree on that, right? The government does waste some money. We agree on that too, right? I’m open to hearing why you think @bilsbie’s list…

The broad point above by @bilsbie is wrong. Fake made up items completely undermine the point’s credibility, and science spending in the U.S. provides a return on investment, it’s …

Are you not aware that science research has a positive return on investment to the economy? Consider reviewing https://www.goldengooseaward.org/ Making fun of science that politici…

> Is he like one of those “experts know he’s a big deal in his niche but non-experts never heard about him” kind of guys? Depends on what you mean. Is Bezier famous enough, or are …

> In my dream world, the robots do all the boring jobs and humans spend all their time being creative, connecting with one another, learning about the universe, and sharing our ide…

Turing Complete was super fun and is amazing. It felt like a years worth of computer engineering class packed into a week’s worth of well designed gameplay. IIRC someone built a wo…