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Re:Mathematics of Geothermal Energy on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:16PM (#49982074)
Don't worry, data centers are not going to space.
Why wouldn't it?
Which is why we need to lower the cost of the reactors.
Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants on Thursday June 18, 2026 @03:49PM (#48590594)
Efficiency is not the problem. We have plenty of nuclear fuel.
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:25PM (#46830792)
Related question: Who is the highest-ranking US leader who would be able to understand such a statement and ponder it for more than 2 seconds?
Re:Show HN: Watch and Play Poker with LLMs on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:34AM (#46575205)
So strange that people are into this, but were not into the much stronger non-LLM poker agents.
Re:Faster Argmin on Floats on Saturday September 20, 2025 @06:32PM (#45318204)
But how is that slower than sorting the list?!
Re:Faster Argmin on Floats on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:36AM (#45310426)
How fast if you write a for loop and keep track of the index and value of the smallest (possibly treating them as ints)?
Re:The obstacles to scaling up humanoids on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:16AM (#45237855)
OK, so you do get the vision.
Re:The obstacles to scaling up humanoids on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:10AM (#45237821)
No, I never said that.
Re:The obstacles to scaling up humanoids on Thursday September 11, 2025 @01:08PM (#45213850)
You know they're getting better, right?
Re:Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo on Thursday September 04, 2025 @09:57PM (#45134304)
They saw how much money stablecoin issuers are making. Simple as that.
Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @06:26PM (#45121053)
I interpret The Bitter Lesson as suggesting that you should be selecting methods that do not need all that data (in many domains, we don't know those methods yet).
Yes, many PMs suck. And many engineers suck. And communication is always lossy. Having many/all engineers take some calls helps to mitigate those.
Re:Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:14PM (#44944186)
I would have loved this as a kid. Walkie-talkie range and battery life made them useless for my adventures.
Re:ChatGPT Monday on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:37PM (#44925858)
Interesting. You just articulated why Chandler was annoying rather than funny.
Re:"The Bitter Lesson" is wrong. Well sort of on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:33PM (#44629998)
The Bitter Lesson is saying, if you're going to use human knowledge, be aware that your solution is temporary. It's not wrong. And it's not wrong to use human knowledge to solve your "today" problem.
Re:The Big LLM Architecture Comparison on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:19PM (#44629897)
I told Claude to read the article and propose a novel architecture.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d09f5659-847f-4b58-891a-e...

But I don't know if it's any good.

System prompts enable changing the model behavior with a simple code change. Without system prompts, changing the behavior would require some level of retraining. So they are quite practical and aren't going anywhere.
This is because coders didn't spend enough time making their tests efficient. Maybe LLM coding agents can help with that.
Re:A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs on Sunday July 06, 2025 @08:19PM (#44485420)
If "LLMs" includes reasoning models, then you're already wrong in your first paragraph:

"something that is just MatMul with interspersed nonlinearities."

Losing some bitcoin is effectively equivalent (over the long term) to distributing it to all other holders (proportionally). So this is fine.
Re:How do I learn robotics in 2025? on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:35PM (#44164970)
This guy makes cool stuff and releases the source code.

https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbruton

No. It is a purely theoretic result. It has zero real-world applicability.
Only at the theoretic limits of efficiency. In real life, not true.
Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud on Monday March 24, 2025 @08:36PM (#43466932)
Jeff didn't mention whether Consumer Reports discussed this problem. If not, they also deserve blame.
Re:Claude can now search the web on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:51PM (#43426504)
But this isn't automated. This is user-driven.
Machines going to be thinking in the frequency domain. We cooked.
Mamba is O(n). But I guess it has other drawbacks.

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