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Re:4-bit floating point FP4 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:44PM (#47820182)
I think it is only a matter of time before HQQ / 1FP takes over. It's the logical conclusion. I hope to be using my 96-blade razor by then too
Re:4-bit floating point FP4 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:08PM (#47819936)
9 years ago, I shared this as an April Fools joke here on HN.

It seems that life is imitating art.

https://github.com/sdd/ieee754-rrp

Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:02PM (#40611791)
No it wasn't. It was powered by a jet engine. Specifically, a GE CF700.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle

Then the next year we had the Herald of Free Enterprise, and the year after Piper Alpha. It was a pretty scary time to be a young kid!
Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:57AM (#33998810)
But nobody is "constantly tracking and publishing his whereabouts".

The information published is not constant: it is published only when a plane takes off or lands.

The information is not a person's whereabouts - it is that of a vehicle

It could be argued that taking a flight in a private jet is just as much an example of what you term a public event as being at a sports event is, since private jets are required by law to broadcast their exact id and location whenever they are in flight.

Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:50AM (#33998733)
The GDPR only applies to businesses, not individuals. So, clearly in this case it does not apply at all since the person behind @ElonJet is acting in an individual capacity.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/who-does-the-eu-gdpr-apply-to...

Re:Chip Design Shifts as Fundamental Laws Run Out of Steam on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:36AM (#33421777)
No, because that would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
A counterexample to the Fosbury Flop was Tuariki Delamere's Front Flip in the long jump, which was immediately banned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe0zi_fkyts

Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:50AM (#33263939)
Source? I've not seen anything _anywhere_ about anyone other than ASML producing EUV lithography tools. DUV yes, but not EUV
The claim is that they have reached "a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth"

Haven't Tokamak Energy in the UK done better than this already back in 2019 with their 24T magnet based on similar HTS tape technology?

https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/tokamak-energy-exceeds-targe...

Not even gonna read it even though I might be interested, due to the patently false clickbaity headline