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automatic6131··on Until the 14th century women dominated the field of beer brewing
And at about 0.5% ABV you digest the alcohol at about the rate you can drink it (assuming you drink it at anything below a "competitive" rate. Just like, as much as you'd drink socially, or with a meal, or for rehydration)
automatic6131··on He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
>I appreciate a lot that you've stated it

Well, from an anonymous account, it means jack. Bull, even.

automatic6131··on 'Impossible' orange auroras spotted in UK after solar storm slams into Earth
Oh boy, wait until you hear how your TV and monitor work!
automatic6131··on Why Windows Is So Much Better in the EU [video]
Yeah, must be pretty hard living in the land of "in fear of this scenario I just made up".
automatic6131··on Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it continues riding the AI wave
AMD's Radeon group has, by any definition, kept up. In gaming, in the tier of cards that people actually buy, they trade blows with NVidia.

But making a GPU is hard. Making a good GPU is even harder. This becomes a chicken and egg problem. If NVidia's hardware has quirks, and you're a game developer, you optimize your game for Nvidia's hardware. If someone else tries and builds a GPU, they discover that many, popular, games run like sh*t. Because of tens of years of strange workarounds to ship a game, drivers rewrite commands for specific games, game devs abuse the directx spec or do it wrong.

However, Nvidia set out 10-15 years ago to corner the professional general purpose GPU compute market with a software layer called CUDA. Software was written and optmised for CUDA, and not any other generic graphics library for reasons I don't know (I'm not a graphics developer, just a gamer). So now Nvidia enjoys a moat in gpGPU (as it was called).

automatic6131··on "We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impressions."
It's the byline for this article

https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attentio...

automatic6131··on "We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impressions."
The use case for AI (as its current LLM version, maybe others won't be) is spam
automatic6131··on Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support
>vector float operations and little else

I thought they were generally int8 or int16 vector multiply adds and occasionally float16 added in.

automatic6131··on I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)
nitter.net is, the mirrors are not.

iirc, twitter turned off all anonymous access, unless you come from a search engine, then you get a limit number of requests. So zedeus came up with an idea to make a massive pool of search engine'd api tokens and use those to keep nitter up. The mirrors would have to copy that idea, and few (0?) have atm.

automatic6131··on Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency
>The basic hypothesis is "people will act rationally in their own interest"

This is, as we all know, true to the "first order" approximation. We know it in business - you get what you incentivise - it's behind Goodhart's law (when a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure).

It is however, an incomplete description of human behaviour, again, as we all know. But since "second and higher" approximations of human behaviour are hard to model... they don't do it.

And just so you know, it's just as easy to do bad, "left wing", Lysenkoist economics.

automatic6131··on Cats are no match for New York City's rats (2018)
Small dogs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrier
automatic6131··on The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land
I really like the idea of a Land Value Tax. However, the devil is in the details. How will it be calculated? Who will calculate it? How can they be held accountable?

It could so easily go badly though, and be worse than the existing system. The arguments in favor though, are very compelling.

automatic6131··on 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
Does the set of sets that exclude themselves exclude itself?
automatic6131··on How five researchers fared after leaving academia
> I know at UniMelb (the more "woke" major University in the most "woke" city in Australia), they refuse to do anything about a particular Chemistry professor

But they did kick out the powerlifting coach, for a similar episode of sexual abuse.

automatic6131··on What if we replace guns and bullets with bows and arrows? (2022)
>affected the civilian population less than in later ages

lol. lmao, even.

Just an army moving through a region - just walking, scouting and "foraging" (this doesn't mean bushes, this means looting from rural villages) - guarantees a famine for those involved. Only the invention of the railway prevented (no, lessened) this.

automatic6131··on I skipped to the ending
>"money doesn't matter"

Understood to mean (in the context of this blog) the difference in living standards and happiness are not affected by a 150k/year income or a 450k/year income. Or another way, "I (author) have encountered the diminishing return on happiness. dH/dm = 0".

automatic6131··on We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Even if your numbers were true (and they're not), at least people enjoy games and porn.
automatic6131··on Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on skeletal evidence
Most of what your talking is gross exaggeration. Exaggeration to the point of falsehood. Even the kernel of truth of underpaid, subsistence workers producing a lot of our food and machines, to call the rest of it what you have is just false.
automatic6131··on Proxima Fusion looks to take stellarators commercial
>gravity for neutron containment.

Is it gravity, or is it gigameters of nuclei in every direction?

automatic6131··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
These controllers, are they in the room with us now?

>What 28 year old is quite so perfect at political "donations" aka bribes?

One, he wasn't "perfect" or even close to it - he mostly gave to crypto positive politicians of both parties, and two, his lawyer mother and his lawyer father helped him

automatic6131··on Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun
That's... a really interesting thought. These mid-brained people that indulge in the endless productivity treadmill (the most appropriate word for it - working hard to end up where you started) are... actually role playing someone productive.

I love this idea.

automatic6131··on Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)
I've seen that on Youtube. Pretty cool to have seen it live.
automatic6131··on Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)
> I'd like to emphasize the distinction between defunding (i.e. demilitarizing) and abolishing the police

You are playing the Motte and Bailey[1] tactic perfectly. You say that defunding means only "demilitarizing", which many people would probably agree with. But when put into practise, it's never that.

I mean, you don't need to delve very far into academia or lefty twitter to find extremist people saying exactly this, that defund does actually mean abolish, or is the first step to it. And the extremists are important in this case, because they are the ones put in power, or writing the text books for next generation in power.

So either, you're a fool & a useful idiot mindlessly parroting this Motte, or you're the deviant waiting to implement the Bailey.

automatic6131··on Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs
But Control is one of the most graphically intense games of the pre-Unreal 5 era. And it was the demo game for Nvidia's latest graphics features - raytracing, DLSS.

They didn't neglect the style and art direction, but it absoutely required graphical horsepower. Maybe - though - you need top tier art direction to sell the sizzle of top shelf graphics.

automatic6131··on Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs
A friend of mine self hosts a teamspeak server and REFUSES to use discord. Absolutely won't have it. I play along, I respect the self hosting. And it works, we can chat and game.
automatic6131··on The Compiler Is Just Ignoring All My Comments
I see Mr Yudkowsky is trying to repeat his only professional success, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
automatic6131··on Cortex X2: ARM aims high
>No one seems to have a decent plan for how to balance local memory resources with cache-coherency over CXL

I have seen a patent application for a technology from {big hardware company} addressing exactly this. Dunno if the approach will work, but there are definitely plans

automatic6131··on How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation
Peak HN comment
automatic6131··on Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto
Well, if any of Satoshi's wallets move after Paul Le Roux is released in 2045 or so, we'll have a smoking gun ;)
automatic6131··on Nvidia and Foxconn to build 'AI factories'
Graduated too late to explore the blockchain. Graduated too early to experience fully automated luxury space communism. Graduated just in time to work in an AI factory
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