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Comment #49182374
I know this is more or less expected, but the improvement induced by adding a worker diminishes very rapidly... I guess it's not the cpython/numpy's fault but rather the CPU.
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Comment #49087747
I'm not a mathematician and AI doesn't answer very well. Could someone tell us how big an endeavour this is: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT ? (the site is : "An ongoi…
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Comment #49057024
"A clear path to zero": what a joke. It will be 25% less fuel, 75% SAF which are nowhere close (how will one grow enough without fertilizers ?), or worse, hydrogen which is even mo…
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Comment #48958690
At least they're trying.
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Comment #48925694
tldr: scientist tell us that defending one's values needs courage and strong will.
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Comment #48925669
IOW: "if I have to kill only 2-3 people to make the business I want to make, then, bah, so be it".
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Comment #48794767
at this rate, pi square is close to 'g'
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Comment #48645532
why "not" yoga/stretch ? I understand it may not be the right thing for every kind of pain but the way it is usually presented (your body needs movement) sounds convincing. (I don'…
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Comment #48643812
ah, you're right, I thought it was disabled only for "export", but the PR explicitly says everybody: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
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Comment #48643604
As a european, it's funny to read those stories about Fable and not being able to check for myself. It looks like being a kid watching other kids playing with nicer toys.
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Comment #48388076
CFD start to become really painful when the fluid leaves the cells...
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Comment #48360607
I've been using KDE for the last 30 years I guess but somehow never used KolourPaint until to 2 weeks go. That's the first "pain" program that is usable to do simple things. Gimp i…
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Comment #47985685
I use Qalculate! quite a lot (but for rather simple things). However, I miss the "physical" aspect of having real buttons. How woud this Ti-84 Evo compare ? https://qalculate.githu…
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Comment #47964650
Good news: we will leave oil Bad news: according to the discussions here on HN it appears that there is no consensus on what the good mix of renewable/nuclear is. Therefore us, cit…
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Comment #47815210
> UK banks will get access to Mythos next week. Makes me wonder what the military have access to since months...
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Comment #47814476
I do greenfield in fluid dynamics and Claude doesn't help: I need to be able to justify each line of my code (the physics part) and using Claude doesn't help. On the UI side Claude…
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Comment #47814418
The job of the programmer/Designer will be to answer questions about what the program can do/not do and tweak it outside of Claude's abilities. To be able to answer those questions…
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Comment #47761959
the good news I guess are 1/ lean-zip is open source so it's much easier to have more Claude's eyes looking at it 2/ I don't think Claude could prove anything substantial about the…
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Comment #47689526
Tested egui and it's great provided you accept the "immediate mode" and its limitations. It's quite polished nowadays although it misses in some areas.
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Comment #47321924
I'm sure that if a car appeared from nowhere in the middle of your living room, you would not be prepared at all. So my question is: when is there enough training data that you can…
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Comment #47321808
within 20 years, everyone will be developing software which will be copyrighted partly by AI and be behind walled gardens. Sure you'll be able to do things locally but everything (…
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Comment #47298778
> My point is that we settle with what we see for convenience/utility and base our models on that. I disagree with that. My abstractions are pure in my mind (well, I hope even if i…
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Comment #47298049
they are activists, everything make them nervous. however I'm sure there are tons of past reasons to make them nervous...
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Comment #47295734
don't forget the size of the search space...
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Comment #47286249
I don't think any policy is ever 100% success for the government, especially if it implies collaborating with the public sector. I came to the conclusion that it is a fact of life.…