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Comment #49158860
Better yet, the Viets became communist in name only and actually quite capitalist. Moreover, they don't like the Chinese in the north, their former ally in the war. Wouldn't it be …
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Comment #49154661
Could you share the specs of your laptop?
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Comment #49154458
Is your Qwen3.6 locally run on your laptop? What kind of tokens/s are you getting from your laptop GPU?
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Comment #49003813
Your answer shows why flat surfaces were acceptable for a bomber (with an asterisk) given the constraints. Then, the question becomes why is the B-2 bomber (and latest stealth figh…
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Comment #49001674
The whole mirror analogy for angular facets breaks down when you realize airplane is a moving object and at some point in its trajectory, one of the facets is likely to be facing t…
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Comment #48782101
> The numbers seem to agree. According to its SEC filing, “in part helped by progress in AI, revenue per full-time equivalent Spooner increased from $1.12 million in 2023 to $2.57 …
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Comment #48627325
There are so many derisive comments here. David Ha, CEO and co-founder, was one of the youngest managing director at Goldman Sachs before doing ML at Google. His ML publications we…
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Comment #47958281
There could be geometrically tiny optimizations that lead to an outsized impact in noise and flow by turbulence reduction. While optimizing an impeller with computational FSI (flui…
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Comment #47943107
Interesting. This observation only reinforces the hypothesis that my colleague had. Well optimized components procured with exclusivity.
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Comment #47943082
No, not Rentech. While Rentech is truly marvelous, it has been around for a while. There is a new kid in town, and this kid is very very good. To the point that it drove out other …
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Comment #47936551
I have an interesting discussion with a senior colleague: why ASML? why are they by far the best? Their competitors are a few generations behind. The colleague claimed that there i…
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Comment #47918703
> Only Nvidia currently rivalled Google’s combination of AI hardware and integrated chip software, he added. Does the phrasing imply that Google sees itself as #1 and Nvidia as a c…
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Comment #47408984
the output quality is so good that it triggered my LinkedIn PTSD. and at least for this particular output, the input-output pair is reversible. input: I just ate lunch. output: I’m…
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Comment #46925140
What are the techniques (and the papers thereof) that you consider to be spectacularly good before 2021 for depth estimation, monocular or not? I do some tangent work from this fie…
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Comment #46228056
A mech eng PhD said that he watches Gundam/Macross for drama and Romance (as in Romanticism).
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Comment #46118532
The challenges you mentioned, and techniques to address them, are not unique to quantum physics. I am still not understanding how quantum physics require "new" kind of numerical an…
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Comment #46099212
PDEs are PDEs, regardless of where they come from Newtonian or quantum. Would you care to elaborate why you think quantum requires a new kind of numerical analysis?
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Comment #46066317
> when I can get away with it I'd prefer to prove things with real numbers and assume magically they transfer to floating point. True for some approaches, but numerical analysis do…
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Comment #46066077
During the days I was studying/working with Coq, one visiting professor gave a presentation on defense software design. An example presented was control logic for F-16, which the p…
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Comment #46066012
This paper reminds me of a class assignment in grad school where the prof asked the students to write a compiler in Coq for some toy Turning-complete language in a week. Having no …
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Comment #45988885
Could you elaborate? Which two was he bad at? How did he ruin people's lives? Honestly asking.
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Comment #45777869
How is Apple's nano-textured display different from ThinkPad's famed matte display?
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Comment #45663158
Both China and Japan were agrarian and primarily rice-eating too, so if the presented narrative was true, what made Korea special?
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Comment #45656812
> Job losses could shave 30 cents off each item purchased by 2027. This is incredible. It's far less than I would imagine. It represents how well optimized the warehouses are. If w…
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Comment #45568050
I am amazed how a narrative could be formed by select samples. The Korean peninsula has very little arable land, and much of Joseon Dynasty's history was marked by famine and mass …