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  s/GAN/GaN/

GAN [1] happens to be a machine learning construct. 250 W of electrical output would be rather surprising.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network

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Capitalization is the difference between "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse" and ...

scoff all you want, this was the plot of The Matrix!

(the original script was written with the sensible "using humans as a biological computer" angle but they worried audiences wouldn't get that newfangled computer thing in the basically prehistoric year of 1999, so they changed it to be humans generating power which... isn't how thermodynamics works!)

You could have combined it with Idiocracy - all the people in the Matrix act slow and dumb because most of their brainpower is being used to run weather simulations or whatever you'd do with a world-wide supercomputer.

"But that's crazy, Morpheus. Thermodynamics says.."

"And where did you learn about physics, Neo?"

"..... In the Matrix...."

I upvoted at the time but I just wanted to mention that I've scrolled through my comments/replies a few times and I've been chuckling every time I read it. ;)

been kind of a crappy couple weeks for me due to family illnesses and it did bring a smile to my face. feels like a "the matrix has you" sketch from the flash player days...

The machines tell elegant lies.

Damn, that would have been much cooler!

This really adds more to the encounter between Neo and The Architect.

> Neo: "You won't do it, you need humans to survive."

> The Architect (phrased angrily and bitterly) "There are some levels of survival we are prepared to accept."

I was totally expecting hardware designed by GAN :) Using genetic algorithms for hardware design is already old trick.

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