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I can assure you that anyone who touches numerical simulations of any kind (physicists, engineers, chemists, biophysicts...etc) has tried their hand at ML based surrogate models in…

No shit. If you want a tax cut to have an economic impact, cut taxes for the poorest, the ones with the least disposable income. EDIT: Seems like the article is suggesting that giv…

Why are they scared shitless of wind power? What's the deal? I don't get it. Like, they seem to be more determined to stop wind power than solar power. Why?

Exactly what I was thinking. In Europe (e.g. UK or Germany) people often complain when chip shops or other fried food establishments open below them, because of the constant smells…

I don't remember when I first found out, but it blew my mind that sausages in the US are typically beef. Like, what? Sausages are like quintessentially pork products. Like the whol…

All economic activity is a key driver to climate change. Why single out one thing? You're clearly imposing a self-serving moral judgement on other people.

I eat a lot of rice, but I don't come from any Asian tradition. I find parboiled to be the easiest to cook and is very versatile unless you need glutinous (sticky) properties, and …

No, social democracies are subservient to capital. The whole modern democratic socialist movement as I understand it is primarily to fix exactly that issue.

I don't want to start another thread but this separate news story is also alarming: Germany Thwarts Russian Plot to Assassinate Executive of Donaustahl, Drone Supplier to Ukraine h…

You can use simulators. However the problem is that if you're for example running material science experiments, those simulations will consume a lot of compute and take weeks, so s…

When they say experiments, do they mean using physics simulators?

Not really. These same techniques fall flat on their face when applied to most physics and chemistry problems. All of academia has already been doing ML4Science for the last 8 year…

I'd group the Dutch with the Scandinavians as the "other Germanic branches", possibly also including the UK. As a taxonomy it makes far more sense to me. Western Europe is too broa…

I worked with a many short men, some of them bald. I mean, STEM, tech, hello, tends to be a big chunk of the demographic. They consistently underperformed when it came to charming …

FreeCAD has a Python API that you can use to too. It's their "macro" functionality.

I guess I have the opposite experience. I have a post-graduate level of mathematical education and I am dismayed at how little there is to be gained from it, when it comes to AI/ML…

Unfortunate. The Grok team built a phenomenal model. I use it all the time and it very often out performs GPT and Claude, on coding and STEM research related tasks. I was part of t…

The less they tax corporations the more the burden will fall on income tax. These big multinationals have been defrauding countries worldwide for decades. The issue is at the core …

Back in 2011 I remember a lot of people talking about how the Chinese oligarchs were using it to evade currency controls and funnel their wealth out of China.

They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.

You mean during the Napoleonic wars? Science was already fully embraced by then. Or do you think the Austrians and the French were casting spells against each other instead of firi…

... what if these AGI entities start demanding a salary in exhange for their work? Also at some point, if they become intelligent enough, they might legally gain personhood.

A question that has been bugging me for a while is what will NVIDIA do with its HPC business? By HPC I mean clusters intended for non-AI related workloads. Are they going to cater …

Also in this world of accelerator programming, people are writing very specialized codes that target a specific architecture, datatype, and even input shape. So with that in mind, …