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We already know that specialist systems, such as those tried in the 80's are not very good in modeling reality, either. The thing is, using LLMs as knowledge bases or as a sort of modern oracles seems to me like using a powerful tool for something they are horrible at.
They are good enough (but not perfect) text summarizers, text translators and text transformers, but are far from the so expected "AGI" some seem to be expecting them to be.
Implementing the code for the simulation and analysis of the data? four months, at most. Running the simulation? almost three years until I had data with good enough resolution for publishing.
The microVM emulates the minimal possible set of devices needed to run, such as disks and network devices, and in the specific case of firecracker, through the use of the virtio model. So it can theoretically use huge amounts of memory of a large vCPU count and still be a microvm.
If this is accurate, those 40% under 18 are driving, but not buying. It's probable that parents are buying those cars for their teenage children.
I've been developing a podcast hosting solution that parses the xml feed, generate static pages and prebuilds a lunr index, and for ~100 posts, it takes around 30 seconds to build server side and less than a second to download and and load on the client.