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The largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark. It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify. (by "trivial" meaning much much easier to ve…

> I'm much more keen on never getting sick than prepping for Mars. Never getting sick is an enabler to reaching the goal. And the goal is..?

> and hippo, from the latin root, I knew was not as obvious as the animal, but probably something like "large" (clue: the Hippodrome) Well.. Hippos is greek for horse, and Hippopot…

Water fast is when the only intake is water (plus electrolites and vitamines). Basically "eat nothing".

Another solution: train wild dolphins to recognize the goal (e.g. sunken ships), do the scan for you, and receive some compensation in exchange for the work they do (tasty food? pl…

My ideal watch also has: mobile voice & data connection (via eSim), speaker and microphone, camera. Those in addition to what it already has: 1 month battery life, HR and SpO2 trac…

Given that many people experiment on themselves anyway, I feel it's a pity and a loss for science that the outcomes of those self-experiments are not collected and aggregated. The …

Not to mention that "gauss" sounds deadlier than "tesla" to begin with. Talking about choosing the right units.

In the nose as well.

> They want to repudiate foreign held debt, or devalue it, by revaluation of the USD I don't understand, who's holding that "foreign held debt"? foreign countries I suppose, so whi…

> arabic numerals Soon to be "Numerals of America"

But the US is efficiently disentangling itself from the entire rest of the world as we speak; so that argument may not hold anymore in the near future.

Indeed, federations splitting apart -- that's what happens in tough times.

It's clear that alphabetical order is open to manipulation. Down that path and everybody in the scientific career will be named A.A.

> Economic growth and population growth will likely keep that going up. What population growth?

The democratic system of checks-and-balances of USA needs to act to contain the Trump individual. After all the current USA government system is not a dictature and thus Trump is n…

Impeach Trump.

I second this. It's nice to wish for the optimizer to do the [almost] perfect job, but sometimes that never arrives. Consider for example the case of AMD GPU ISA (GCN) generated by…

But I want fewer cables, not more.

Now I must use lots of rather thick cables in my desktop (because I run GPUs). Imagine that the GPU would instead suck up all the power it needs through the PCIe connector, without…

The voltage step-down is already in place, from 12V to whatever 1V or 0.8V is needed. Doing the same thing starting from 48V instead of 12V does not change anything fundamentally, …

Step the GPU voltage up to 48V. (anyway you make a new connector that's not compatible with existing PSUs. Why not actually fix a problem at the same time, once and for all! [48V s…

Exactly. Consider this example: a = f(z); b = g(z); v = x > y ? a : b; Assuming computing the two function calls f() and g() is relativelly expensive, it becomes a trade-off whethe…

This was no nice! had fun reading it. Also learned the meaning of the conspicuous word pulchritudinous , which in the default Oxford languages dictionary Google uses [1] comes up w…

And the splitting into CDNA and RDNA comes from the same direction: market segmentation, to allow much higher prices for the CDNA data-center GPUs, while keeping the gamer-focused …