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luc4sdreyer

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    Comment #46215458

    > Time doesn’t exist. Do the people writing this garbage live in a vacuum? Is it AI slop? Maybe don't dismiss an idea as garbage before trying to understand it. One of the ideas he…

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    Comment #43651756

    > the high velocities of steam locomotives might kill you This obviously seems silly in hindsight. Warnings about radium watches or asbestos sound less silly, or even wise. But nei…

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    Comment #43581284

    Animals eat their disabled children. Humans should also do it then, since it's normal or natural. Around 100k people die from age-related disease every day. I'd be careful to dismi…

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    Comment #42963042

    That is assuming the accelerating AI stays under human control. We're racing up a hill at an ever-increasing speed, and we don't know what's on the other side. Maybe 80% chance tha…

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    Comment #42962970

    Yes, that's one of the tricks.

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    Comment #40787505

    The youngest was born in 2019, the same year he was incarcerated (April 2019). Pregnancy lasts 9 months, so even if the child were born in early 2020, there would be no reason to a…

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    Comment #40375759

    I'm a bit worried that most of the links on https://www.datomic.com/ are broken.

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    Comment #40178674

    He admitted to lying about it? Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find anything.

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    Comment #39764708

    > "Debunking the Myth of the Young Entrepreneur" There might be others, but this one is clear and to the point: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45 https://hbr.or…

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    Comment #39753579

    > He is critical of string theory on the grounds that it lacks testable predictions and is promoted with public money despite its failures so far,[1] and has authored both scientif…

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    Comment #39702500

    > Jenson and Lisa Su being literally cousins I know the word literally doesn't mean anything anymore, but Jenson and Lisa Su are first cousins once removed. Jensen's grandfather an…

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    Comment #39677767

    > but it will require paradigm shift, so there will be a lot of resistance before revolution. I think the main point of resistance is the incompatibility with observations. All Tir…

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    Comment #39677669

    >from one point in space - We have multiple observatories on and around the planet - The Earth is moving around the Sun - The Sun is moving around the centre of the galaxy - The ga…

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    Comment #39677600

    > Nobody had a clue In the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus calculated that the Sun was between 18 and 20 times farther away from the Earth than the Moon, and proposed the Heliocentric …

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    Comment #39626832

    >If known programs cannot run on this new OS then it is defective. I understand the problem is that, like String Theory, this framework has a practically unlimited supply of variab…

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    Comment #39626726

    This is from four years ago, and there are some comments on the article by Matt Kelly that show that the "interference pattern" is just an artefact. The author did not respond desp…

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    Comment #39382259

    Does something like madsim / Deterministic Simulation Testing exist for Java applications?

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    Comment #38471952

    Agreed. I'm actually interested in a discussion about his mental health. A change in behaviour towards irrational aggression could be due to extreme stress, lack of sleep, drugs, a…

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    Comment #37248102

    DIY health is all fun and games until something goes wrong, and then suddenly the experts are important again. For some reason the experts apparently don't really understand the "s…

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    Comment #37132978

    The term became very popular during Ethan Couch's trial, because the judge bought it. > Couch was indicted on four counts of intoxication manslaughter for recklessly driving under …

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    Comment #37074331

    I'm not aware of anything concrete by OpenAI, but others have offered possible explanations. One idea is that the cause is batched inference in sparse MoE (mixture of experts) mode…

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    Comment #37048321

    Do you mean the one you go to in the mission where you get the jetpack? https://www.ign.com/wikis/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/Black...

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    Comment #36936374

    Adding up to "1 exaFLOPS" (sparse FP8). For reference, the fastest FP64 supercomputer is the AMD-based Frontier supercomputer, at 1.1 exaFLOPS.

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    Comment #36936308

    They claim 1.1x to 7x, depending on what you're doing. The 10% to 50% is for the ~10k GPU LLM training, where the main bottleneck tends to be networking: > DGX GH200 enables more e…

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    Comment #36928526

    Here's a simple example from r/wallstreetbets: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ihu7rh/auti... I think any from these communities (4chan, crypto, etc.) already feel…