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nerpderp82on Astrophysics Source Code Library

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nerpderp82on Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE

And arrested at gunpoint with helicopters flying overhead. This is only the start.

nerpderp82on R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

There can be more than one intelligence. Nature has shown us that there are many. And many which can "outsmart" a human.

nerpderp82on R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

Thank you for your mature intelligent answer.

nerpderp82on iPhone Air

The thin phone is engineering prep for Apple Vision Air.

nerpderp82on New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care

Can you spell it out with math?

nerpderp82on AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86

Isn't that still true for high perf chips? We don't have ways to use all those transistors so we make larger and larger caches.

nerpderp82on AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture)

The P6 is arguably the most important x86 microarch ever, it put Intel on top over the RISC workstations.

What was your favorite subsystem in the P6 arch?

Was it designed in Verilog? What languages and tools were used to design P6 and the PPro?

nerpderp82on Interview with Geoffrey Hinton

His unhinged attacks on Chomsky are comical at this point.

nerpderp82on Google's new AI mode is good, actually

> cultural purity test among left-leaning people

Calm down with taking the rhetoric to 11, and don't project some sort of simple left/right numberline on this.

nerpderp82on OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart

The endgame for all AI companies is to replace all of labor. Everyone's use of AI through their chat and api endpoints is training those replacements right now.

nerpderp82on 'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

Relating transformers to models and neural representations of the hippocampal formation

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Relating-transformers-...

by the same authors as the TEM paper

nerpderp82on TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

WASM !

nerpderp82on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Why does it matter? Some will become Eloy and some Trogs.

nerpderp82on Nearly 600 economists sign letter, defend independence of the Federal Reserve

Abdicating your responsibility should require a constitutional amendment. All these laws where congress hands over power to someone else are unconstitutional and should be voided.

nerpderp82on U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

> sacrifice a functional ....

Who said we are sacrificing anything? We only gain, and we gain a distributed, diverse, < $1watt of generating capacity.

Your comment makes no sense.

nerpderp82on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

> significantly less confident that an LLM is going to be any good at putting a raw source like a court ruling PDF into context and adequately explain to readers why

You should play with LLMs this week.

nerpderp82on Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines

Could you do page table walks in RVV?

nerpderp82on Nearly 600 economists sign letter, defend independence of the Federal Reserve

Maybe the Fed should run tariffs as well, at least something with a wavelength longer than 6 weeks.

nerpderp82on U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

There is a great book on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

But you have to know enough statistics to be sneaky with it.

nerpderp82on U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

And China makes all of our stuff. Instead of putting tariffs on solar from China, we should have dropped a trillion dollars on it and put it everywhere.

nerpderp82on U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

Continue on this path and we will look like Russia in 10 years. Sorry aboot the invasion Canada.

nerpderp82on U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%

US Noped out of Paris Accords and is on the path to unregulate greenhouse gas emissions while the article talks about the INCREASING US emissions while China's falls.

The US outsourced massive swaths of its manufacturing to China and with it, the emissions from those industries.

Talking in absolutes without context, nor the trajectories is rigorous at best and disingenuous or worse.

From the article

> International Energy Agency (IEA) figures show Chinese coal consumption falling 2.6% in the first half of the year, largely due to a boom in solar that saw the country add 92 gigawatts of capacity—that’s 92 billion watts—in a single month in May, compared to all-time U.S. installations of 134 GW.

So in one month, China added 68% of our total solar capacity to its grid.

nerpderp82on Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?

Not if your spending all the time to make the money. Lots of folks can't go on vacation because their job will throw them under the bus when they are away.

nerpderp82on Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

If you can get 1.7MW service, then you are paying utility rates, or around 100-150 per MWh, or as you quoted 4-6k per day. In Seattle, running this off peak would cost one about 104$/hr before the other fees.

I would be neat if a subset of this could be made operational and booted once in awhile a computer history museum. I agree that it doesn't make sense to actually run it.

https://seattle.gov/city-light/business-solutions/business-b...

nerpderp82on Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model

Is Worsel in The Pile?

Total aside, but I appreciate your arxiv submissions here. Just because they don't hit the front page, doesn't mean they are seen.

nerpderp82on Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model

Looks like they aren't targeting DRGN24 as one of their benchmark suites.

nerpderp82on Ask HN: How to improve PCB prototyping iteration time?

You haven't given us enough information to make a recommendation.

nerpderp82on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes

I'd say the number of patents filed and granted by practicing entities of small to mid-size would be a pretty good measure of innovation. I think patent fees and complexity should be progressive, esp if you have working hardware and don't just flip the patent to a troll.

nerpderp82on FTC announces rule banning noncompetes

Total aside, but I think it is ridiculous that CoC larps as a quasi governmental organization. When in actuality it is a Union of Capitalists.