Bitcoin is volatile enough you can cherry-pick pretty much any %age you want based on the dates you choose. Which you seem to have done here - "happening" to choose the day with the lowest single day value in the last 3…
LCG generators like lrand48 have been understood well enough you could possibly calculate "realistic looking timestamp" input seeds based on intended output characteristics. Now, do we think that's likely? Probably no…
And those rocket drones have a significant proportion of their mass as reaction gas for the thrusters, everything else being designed around lightness, and can still only resist gravity on the order of a few tens of…
And this time next year I'll have 365 wives, and my CPU will run at 2 terrahertz.
From what I can see they actually started pushing the steam update to stable users before the epic tweet. And has been on the beta channel for weeks. So I wonder if it's the other way round, Epic rushed out the boast…
But their goal would be to ensure it only runs on their chips, and not any competitors. I can't see how they could do that if the best models truely were "Open". I can see one of Nvidia's biggest fears is the inference…
Tyres are also a massive source of micro plastics in the environment, as another example of one of the "uncounted externalities". This suggests it may be the source for over a quarter of all environmental micro plastics…
From their current balance sheets, well below costs. Trying to separate out "per token" costs and possible profitibility from public information feels like a exercise in futility, it's too easy to play games with costs…
I think it's still /somewhat/ close to feature size - I think the fin pitch of the "N3" tsmc process was about 5nm, which gives a "minimum feature size" of ~2.5nm to ensure the "gap" between them. I think one of the big…
I feel part of the "Smart Access Memory" name is actually the driver features and paths to actually make use of it. It's not like ReBar is a single toggle "Make Things Faster", but a different option in how it can map…
Often not in the same way - even if there are multiple queues (that can be given a priority), they're often limited in what they can schedule between. Often there's shared resources that are statically allocated to…
Realistically the models will always be resident in the GPU during processing - the CPU and it's memory would probably more be used for related development tasks (as this is a workstation not a cloud server). If it's…
Yeah, but then there's the size of KV cache needing to be read through that HBM interface for each token, putting a hard limit on the tok/s based on the memory bandwidth. On some models a large context can be a notable…
Yes, the "Big Scary Numbers" listing CCTV cameras per capita include private cameras, which can outnumber "public" (government, council and police) cameras by orders of magnitude. In the UK these include those owned by…
There's the simple physics of a vtol craft when landing needing to push down a lot of a air very fast just to lift an average human - plus the weight of the craft itself. There's a reason helicopters today don't land on…
No, but to most people the only exposure they've had to the term "Effective Altruism" (if they've even heard of the it) is morality-washing personal greed that never quite seems to get past the "accumulation" or…
A spaced en-dash is also commonly used in British english for the parenthesis equivalent. So it's not really "anglosphere". While there's no central authority, both Oxford and Cambridge University press style guidelines…
It mostly works because the object you're sling-shotting with is moving relative to the initial origin of the probe - if you can line it up so the object is moving in the direction you want to accelerate in you can get…
Yeah, many of the theoretical solar sail ideas fall down on what I consider a useful "probe" is, and what it can mass. As mentioned in my other comment, if you define the "probe" to be "a single particle" we /already/…
It might help a bit, as you mentioned that Voyager is currently going about ~17km/s, so nearly 0.005% c, so it's already nearly 1/200th of the way there to our target of 1% c. But then you're at a velocity so far beyond…
Space sails are super low thrust though, even lower than my VASIMIR example - so will take even longer to reach the desired speed - though they have the advantage of not having to carry the complex and heavy engine I…
No, not even close. The issue is simply exhaust velocity and reaction mass, that leads us into the tyranny of the rocket equation - in that you have to carry that reaction mass with you and accelerate that mass too.…
They're really simple - arguably the problem is people try to treat them as a single complex unit rather than just "5 junctions in a row". Trying to think of them as a whole is rather pointless and self defeating, as…
Even then the "reserved" section is a carve out guaranteed chunk to allow stuff that might need contiguous physical memory (display scan out buffers and page tables, for example) and similar. The GPU can still happily…
Imgur were found to be in breach of the data collection laws before any "you must check IDs" laws were even discussed in parliament, let alone passed, where the guidance was pretty much "Don't get caught actively…
Bitcoin is volatile enough you can cherry-pick pretty much any %age you want based on the dates you choose. Which you seem to have done here - "happening" to choose the day with the lowest single day value in the last 3…
LCG generators like lrand48 have been understood well enough you could possibly calculate "realistic looking timestamp" input seeds based on intended output characteristics. Now, do we think that's likely? Probably no…
And those rocket drones have a significant proportion of their mass as reaction gas for the thrusters, everything else being designed around lightness, and can still only resist gravity on the order of a few tens of…
And this time next year I'll have 365 wives, and my CPU will run at 2 terrahertz.
From what I can see they actually started pushing the steam update to stable users before the epic tweet. And has been on the beta channel for weeks. So I wonder if it's the other way round, Epic rushed out the boast…
But their goal would be to ensure it only runs on their chips, and not any competitors. I can't see how they could do that if the best models truely were "Open". I can see one of Nvidia's biggest fears is the inference…
Tyres are also a massive source of micro plastics in the environment, as another example of one of the "uncounted externalities". This suggests it may be the source for over a quarter of all environmental micro plastics…
From their current balance sheets, well below costs. Trying to separate out "per token" costs and possible profitibility from public information feels like a exercise in futility, it's too easy to play games with costs…
I think it's still /somewhat/ close to feature size - I think the fin pitch of the "N3" tsmc process was about 5nm, which gives a "minimum feature size" of ~2.5nm to ensure the "gap" between them. I think one of the big…
I feel part of the "Smart Access Memory" name is actually the driver features and paths to actually make use of it. It's not like ReBar is a single toggle "Make Things Faster", but a different option in how it can map…
Often not in the same way - even if there are multiple queues (that can be given a priority), they're often limited in what they can schedule between. Often there's shared resources that are statically allocated to…
Realistically the models will always be resident in the GPU during processing - the CPU and it's memory would probably more be used for related development tasks (as this is a workstation not a cloud server). If it's…
Yeah, but then there's the size of KV cache needing to be read through that HBM interface for each token, putting a hard limit on the tok/s based on the memory bandwidth. On some models a large context can be a notable…
Yes, the "Big Scary Numbers" listing CCTV cameras per capita include private cameras, which can outnumber "public" (government, council and police) cameras by orders of magnitude. In the UK these include those owned by…
There's the simple physics of a vtol craft when landing needing to push down a lot of a air very fast just to lift an average human - plus the weight of the craft itself. There's a reason helicopters today don't land on…
No, but to most people the only exposure they've had to the term "Effective Altruism" (if they've even heard of the it) is morality-washing personal greed that never quite seems to get past the "accumulation" or…
A spaced en-dash is also commonly used in British english for the parenthesis equivalent. So it's not really "anglosphere". While there's no central authority, both Oxford and Cambridge University press style guidelines…
It mostly works because the object you're sling-shotting with is moving relative to the initial origin of the probe - if you can line it up so the object is moving in the direction you want to accelerate in you can get…
Yeah, many of the theoretical solar sail ideas fall down on what I consider a useful "probe" is, and what it can mass. As mentioned in my other comment, if you define the "probe" to be "a single particle" we /already/…
It might help a bit, as you mentioned that Voyager is currently going about ~17km/s, so nearly 0.005% c, so it's already nearly 1/200th of the way there to our target of 1% c. But then you're at a velocity so far beyond…
Space sails are super low thrust though, even lower than my VASIMIR example - so will take even longer to reach the desired speed - though they have the advantage of not having to carry the complex and heavy engine I…
No, not even close. The issue is simply exhaust velocity and reaction mass, that leads us into the tyranny of the rocket equation - in that you have to carry that reaction mass with you and accelerate that mass too.…
They're really simple - arguably the problem is people try to treat them as a single complex unit rather than just "5 junctions in a row". Trying to think of them as a whole is rather pointless and self defeating, as…
Even then the "reserved" section is a carve out guaranteed chunk to allow stuff that might need contiguous physical memory (display scan out buffers and page tables, for example) and similar. The GPU can still happily…
Imgur were found to be in breach of the data collection laws before any "you must check IDs" laws were even discussed in parliament, let alone passed, where the guidance was pretty much "Don't get caught actively…