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by Zenst 1mo ago
This is not just about the Sun. As we progress towards developing nuclear fusion reactors, a better understanding of the underlying physics may have practical implications for reactor design and could even reveal factors currently being ove
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by Zenst 1mo ago
Subsidies (via tax or lack thereof) on aeroplane fuel is one that really does get overlooked. Yet on the other hand, use a few gallons in a car and you're demonised as a climate villain in name and taxes. Nobody factors in life of th
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by Zenst 1mo ago
Having experienced a customer support AI today that whatever option you picked initially led to the AI, which had the rigid helpfulness of a McDonalds script of "Would you like fries with that", having already said you do not want
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by Zenst 1mo ago
Reminds me of a company (FTSE100) in the early 2000s that had an internal network IP range that used the same IP range as another company, turned out the person who did the networking originally brought a book and the examples used in that
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by Zenst 1mo ago
With AI models like Mixture of Experts, many of those experts will be the real target here, as polished, refined and little to no change, they become fine candidates for being locked into silicon. Who knows, add some SRAM in there and smal
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by Zenst 2mo ago
Whilst these coding models improve, they seem to cater for multiple languages, and for many, a trimmed-down LLM that supports just one language would be fantastic. This would be smaller, more able to run on the hardware people have at home,
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by Zenst 2mo ago
Which is why N-version programming is often used for systems that need to work (like plane software) and even then, as we know today, it can not be perfect. Google "plane software bugs history" for an insight into that.
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by Zenst 2mo ago
Whilst true, it's not without its gotchas, and I saw a video the other day that elegantly highlights this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6MAZW-joCo . A false sense of confidence is bad; one that is offloaded onto som
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by Zenst 2mo ago
Having worked in COBOL extensivly in the 80s and 90s, as well as working for a software house that did migrations (Craziest was Plan assembler to Dec Vax C). I do wonder how an ambitious AI would handle the maths. COBOL is renowed for its
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by Zenst 2mo ago
My ironic humour hopes https://www.roba-kids.com/en/collections/sandpit appears as an advert with them.
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by Zenst 3mo ago
Trident 2 (article says used 8 of these chips), and google says around 400-424 made, so easily would have soaked up 4000 of these CPUs with spares alone. So if anything, the production run seems light. I read they had their own fab, so the
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by Zenst 3mo ago
That number was probably shaped by minimum production-run requirements, alongside the need for software development units, along with other factors, like the use in Trident II and other quests we may not know about.
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by Zenst 3mo ago
Process-intensive, but higher compression has clear strategic value. Distant satellites such as Voyager, where bandwidth is severely limited, could transmit more data using such capabilities. Equally, for long-term archival storage, improve
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by Zenst 3mo ago
As it is, scalpers/bots have been cashing in for a while, coining it from cashed-up people, so flipping that would make sense by a company and taking advantage of that to help reduce/fund a lower price down the line quicker. Anoth
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by Zenst 3mo ago
Interesting, as it sounds like a lottery reservation system, which is kinda a neat way to deal with many issues. I'm always supprised that companies don't do a tiered price release, offer it at 200% price, you get it, 150%, you lo
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by Zenst 3mo ago
They produce drugs whose patents have expired; drugs still under patent are something they mostly avoid. The term for 3rd party versions of these drugs are often referred to as `generics`, which sees the same drug, but a different name(nam
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by Zenst 4mo ago
Saw this and does seem the screen tipped the balance here, which is understandable. Maybe if framework had a better screen without the touch overheads as an option(which I'm sure they could do being modular and upgradable)
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by Zenst 4mo ago
All set for a perfect storm with a single exploit down the line. Which could take out so much and OpenAI with it. What a way to burst the bubble, not an if, more a when as so many eggs in that basket and they have yet to invent a solid li
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by Zenst 4mo ago
I contracted for ICL around the time it was acquired by Fujitsu, working opposite the Post Office developers, some of whom were still learning C++ as they went. I later worked at the Department of Health during the Blair-era restructuring,
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by Zenst 5mo ago
Good article. I particularly like the line, "early exposure to experts reduces delusional confidence", which is very true. It helps prevent a flawed Occam’s razor mindset, where people mistake the simplest visible explanation for
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by Zenst 5mo ago
Does feel like OpenAI are on a - too the moon or bust direction currently and equally does also feel they are too big to go bust as if they wobble, the enture stack of bubbles colapse to the stage that the fallout would be greater than the
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by Zenst 5mo ago
Sora was a loss-loss-leader to a loss-leader product with added liability exposure ontop. Was wise to bail on it as the resource demands are crazy for video gen with AI, and to get longer clips, you need more and more memory. Upside is, t
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by Zenst 7mo ago
like Neo from the Martix, it has only one interface port of real use.
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by Zenst 7mo ago
https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/an-update-on-ou...
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by Zenst 7mo ago
https://bsky.social/about/blog/01-17-2025-moderation-2024 "In 2024, Bluesky submitted 1,154 reports for confirmed CSAM to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Reports consist of the
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by Zenst 8mo ago
The Huawei ban in the European Union (EU) has been a gradual, uneven process, shifting from voluntary guidelines in 2020 to increasingly mandatory, country-specific, and EU-wide restrictions by 2025–2026. Here is the timeline of Huawei&#x27
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by Zenst 8mo ago
Wouldn't such a rumour make people think that if they brought Tesla shares, they could get a share of SpaceX if they merge, given their public stock and the later two are not. So such reports, in such situations, will be interesting if
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by Zenst 8mo ago
If you take it to the max (rate, speed) with 0 melt, let it fill up, then turn melt to the max - you get reverse snow falling up.
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by Zenst 8mo ago
Imagine, it's not just making sure your code is secure, but your also counting on all those libraries's being secure. Let alone all these frameworks as you say - payment, advertising, analytics... You could have the most secure c
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by Zenst 9mo ago
Maria Corina Machado (nobel peace prize winner) is purported to be their new leader. So all the signs so far are looking up.

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