The sugar could kill you in the long term, but I think here it’s the caffeine you should worry about.

Nah, just a TI-84 and teach them programming in BASIC

I’d like to invoke my 42nd amendment right to not debate fascists and punch them instead.

No that’s been banned for a while at this point. They get allocations for components on the car, in the case of the combustion engine 3 for the season.

F1 teams 3D print (laser metal sintering more specifically) their pistons these days, so I’d say at the bleeding edge of the tech you can create pretty strong parts. But indeed, anything which a consumer is likely going to be able to afford won’t be nearly as strong.

But it can be sold as good enough to credulous management, thereby still doing damage by getting people laid off in the short term.

There’s this famous quote about investing which goes: “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. I think that equally holds for the labor market. Just because you and everyone around you knows your job can’t be replaced by AI, doesn’t mean there won’t be an attempt to replace you which lasts long enough for you to lose your house.

Doesn’t Mon Chou traditionally come as a block?

They undoubtably have the engineering talent to do it, just not the managerial talent

Yeah Stalin was like “You want to see totalitarianism with socialist window dressing?”

I think this is mostly a symptom of the gerontocracy. Most elected officials have not grown up with computers, which is already likely to make them incurious about them. Couple that with being in office so long, likely developing a very high opinion of themselves that they know best. I would guess a significant minority is actively hostile to learning anything about computers, so you can hire any professional to explain stuff with baby talk, it won’t work on them. Combine that with the rest of the technologically illiterate politicians just being indifferent, and you get this kind of policy.

It makes more sense if you read it as a threat.

Under a very strict interpretation, that should mean any LLM trained on GPL code should be GPL as well. To prove that is the case seems tough though, just like artists you would need to make the LLM produce a substantial part of the licensed work to prove said work was part of the training data.

If that would hold up in court is a completely different question though, and then there is also the question of what organization is willing and able to cough up the legal fees to litigate this.

Yup, just look at what happened to De Blasio. Mild criticism and they kidnapped his daughter.

Why is it so hard to accept that not everybody can stay awake while reading a scientific article?

I’m a PhD researcher and even I struggle staying awake sometimes.

No seriously, I fully agree, scientific articles are written for a specific, niche audience, i.e. not the general public. But science should be communicated to the public, in as accessible a format as possible. If you fail to do that, you get people saying “science is boring”, or worse, mistrust of science like it exists today.

And another thing: this shouldn’t be either-or between watching a video and reading an article. Watch the video, get a general understanding of the topic, see if it interests you. If you want to know more, dive into the article to deepen that understanding. I guarantee you’ll get a better understanding that way, because watching the video has already given you a general structure of the topic. Reading then serves to add details in that structure.

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In other news: violence against Jewish people is on the rise.

Why? Because of the chat control stuff?

Those laptop cores are kerbstomping the zen1 cores according to these benchmarks. Double the performance for single-core geekbench, which matches what I observed as well.

To your point of how far new zen cores have come, I have a fun story from work. In short, in my specific use case, my 7840HS (8 zen4 laptop cores) was at parity or outperforming a 1950X (16 zen1 desktop cores), in a fully multithreaded task. The workload was essentially a bunch of RISC-V simulators running independently in parallel through a makefile, so the individual tasks benefit greatly from increased IPC. I’m not sure the entire gain in performance comes from IPC, but it’s probably the majority and that is still very impressive.

Also it’s mostly security through obscurity. It is just difficult enough to dissuade most people, but not actually secure because that costs money.