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> though we did not delve into the observation Oh, the irony.

Gold/M2SL(Billion USD) is currently around 0.12. In 1980, it peaked around 0.45. Monthly average since 1960 is 0.11. In late 2011 it peaked around 0.18. Gold / Global M2 would be a…

I switched to Windsurf.ai when cursor broke for me. Seems about the same but less buggy. Haven't used it in the last couple weeks, though, so YMMV.

For those who are actually interested in this field, the proper way to measure this would be with a four point probe. You do need a constant current source and a high-impedence vol…

You can train that size of a model on ~1 billion tokens in ~3 minutes on a rented 8xH100 80GB node (~$9/hr on Lambda Labs, RunPod io, etc.) using the NanoGPT speed run repo: https:…

> That application was submitted in March 2024 and is on track for approval in December 2026 Huh? Is this something where there's multiple incremental steps in the process, and tha…

Agree more levels seems like it could be beneficial. And another Meta paper published a day later shows how that might work: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/large-concept…

Oh, interesting. 120db is much better than what I thought possible with CMOS sensors. Thats competetive with the human eye. Well, that definitely changes my opinion on how feasible…

Apparently they're using this CMOS sensor: https://www.onsemi.com/products/sensors/image-sensors/ar0136... It's not an event camera, so it's very much taking images, which are then…

> if you compare Intel's headcount with comparable companies (AMD, Nvidia), you can see Intel is really wasteful AMD and NVIDIA are fabless. They are not comparable. It takes far m…

If both sides are frosted, then you will have a similar effect as subsurface scattering.

I've been using this for a few weeks now, and it's really handy. But I did learn the hard way that it fails if you don't have internet connection, even if you already have the venv…

Not the OP, and not at all an expert in this area, but I was curious what the answer was, and from a bit of reading it seems like a potential reason that might not work is because …

The slowdown is in the simulation, not in the internally perceived flow of time. The internally perceived flow of time would of course not change. The problem is that an exponentia…

Photocopying has little to do with simulation of the physical world. First of all, Bits != Q-bits. You can clone bits. You can't clone Q-bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cl…

Exponential slowdowns at each level ruin this hypothesis.

If you think novels, especially good ones, are "stories of made-up people that aren't intended to illustrate any particular idea", then you're missing quite a bit.

This model of physics does make some falsifiable predictions, and there are discussions about how to test them elsewhere. Unlike string theory, this theory does not have any free v…

I can understand how the "up to an annual contribution limit" part of my comment could be confusing. I added that in an attempt to not be misleading / to circumvent spurious disagr…

False dichotomy. Prior to CU, individuals could contribute to any candidate of their choosing (up to an annual contribution limit). Companies are compased of individuals. CU was tw…

Verified pre and post conditions would be nice. Especially in the era of LLM's, which can usually fill in the implementation given a sufficiently clear specification.

To clarify what the parent is getting at: Moore's law is an observation about the density (and, really about the cost) of transistors. So it's about the fabrication process, not ab…

Probably using Go and defaulting to zero unix timestamp.

Except anyone can start a parallel chain, e.g. DogeCoin. The only thing that makes BitCoin special is that it was the first and is still the most well known. It's value is entirely…