Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”
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As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."
nCuLitho … I wonder how Spanish-speaking people would like that one. Or maybe that added letter makes it too long anyways and it could be shortened to… nCuLo
In my defense, I was trying to vaguely reference the Problem with Popplers episode of Futurama but failed.
My culitho brings all the boys to the lab,
And they're like, it's better than a silicon fab,
We're laughing our way to the top,
With computational power that won't stop!
We'll be etching those chips to the groove,
Culitho de NVIDIA, making that smooth move!AUDI étron is worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidia
https://wccftech.com/nvidias-name-origins-history-roman-myth...
Yes, Spanish can be that polysemic. As English does with let, get and set.
People who think of dicks when reading pico instead of 1e-12 are probably not your target audience.
Culitho is so unambiguous in Spanish, though, that it's hard not to laugh.
Source: I lived in the Caribbean and spent way too much time watching reggaeton and dembow music videos.
> The joke implies that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia might have come up with the name "CuLitho" because it sounds similar to the Spanish phrase "culo de envidia," which means "butt of envy" or "an envious butt." The phrase is often used to describe someone who is envious or jealous of another person's success or possessions.
The point is not that CuLitho is similar to "culo" (ass), as the similarity is not that obvious.
The point is that it's practically identical to "culito" (little ass, where "little" is typically not literally about size, but more of an endearing term - another translation could be cute ass).
The similarity is large enough that, at least in places where we use that term (not sure if it's used in the whole Spanish-speaking world, but e.g. in Spain it is) there's no way to read that name with a straight face.
I'm less interested in an AI trained on the droves of mediocre crap out there on the web, but would be super excited if there were one trained on curated material consisting of carefully crafted and authoritative answers like this. Or at least a way to lend greater weight to such inputs.
It's the possibility of it understanding what I'm best at, better than I do, that makes me concerned.
What will our John Henry moment look like?[1]
[0] for whatever definition you want to use for these words; I like them in these contexts, but it doesn't matter if this submarine is swimming or not
[1] I'm not sure if this was in a carton I saw as a young child, but I mainly remember a variation of the tale from Civilisation Beyond Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
nervously laughs in Schwarzenegger
We just don't know what's out there and have no way to control, stop it or contain its spread. These models are powerful beyong imagination. Design computer chips is less tedious, for them, than assembling computer parts. They simulate human brain functions, not manual functions.
For my part, I stay on my best behaviour while interacting with them. One key reason being that not more than 10 years ago, a human named Snowden spoke out, with the help of independent journalists, about usage of an unusual piece of software aimed at recording all digital conversations transmitted over the Internet. We laughed him off because what he was describing was out of our realm of understanding.
This time around its commercialized AI agents. We don't know the full breath of their capabilities. We don't have a record of how many people are using them regularly and applying them to real life challenges. All that we are certain about is that their rate of improvement follows an exponential growth curve. Personally, I just assume that someone hungry enough, out there in the universe, is using them to tackle all kinds of puzzling problems.
If compute is not an issue, then the sky's the limit.
I will actually go one further, they have AGI or near AGI.
Are we?
`i do not mean to mock but this is an ai superstition that i have not seen yet of course they write sentences without capital letters where what how did you arrive at this conclusion`
Please check your sources better in the future, thanks. We can't go all paraneolithic on each other out of fear of something that's not going happen. Plus, it's trained on bad grammar so it knows exactly how to do poor grammar even as a low level capability, it happened even with the tiny models.
We just have to get adjusted to this new world paradigm.
This won't allow faster chips. It's only a time saver.
I just disagree that this is a breakthrough.
1) th is not used in Spanish
2) th would be likely hispanized as z
3) taken literally would sound culit-jo
If you ignore that you are left with "culito" which is ass + diminutive = small ass
So, Th would be pronounced like just T. For example, thermo and now culitho.
The noun "termo" in Spanish is formally recognized by the RAE to refer to a vacuum insulated food jar (such as the ones sold by Thermos®), and that is the word I was referring to, as it is the most widely identifiable use of the word "termo" in Spanish.
i.e.: "Pasame ese termo por favor?", "Se me ha quedado el termo en mi casa".
Thanos is "Tanos," Thermos is "termo," Ethernet is "Eternet," and so on.
There is no such thing as "when pronouncing foreign words with th, the sound is invariably converted to a T". Which sound are you referring to, the Greek "Θά" ('θa")? Or the English "th" which becomes the voiced dental fricative /ð/ or the voiceless dental fricative /θ/?
Does "ethernet" have a formally recognized translation by the RAE? No, it doesn't. You are being dishonest and making stuff up here.
A formal translation for "Thanos" doesn't exist in Spanish, what does exist is a translation for the given name Ἀθανάσιος ("Thanos" is a shortened version of the given name "Athanasius"), which is translated to Spanish as Atanasio, because it arrived to Spanish from Greek.
Another possible translation of Thanos may be the translations made by Marvel which I cannot care less about and do not carry any weight whatsoever.
And the fact that you are native Spanish speaker makes little difference here. How trustworthy is a native Spanish speaker? You will know it when you navigate the Spanish speaking Internet and find most of it are antivaxxers, flat earthers and people that believe "US Navy" is a given name ("Usnavy"). I know this because I have native Spanish proficiency as well.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of how something is pronounced in Spanish, which is ostensibly something that a native speaker of the language would certainly have experience with and who’s opinions should be listened to.
They shouldn’t be trusted as a source of information about vaccinations, the curvature of the earth, or the etymology of the US Navy but it’s also not expected that they would be experts in any of those topics.
There’s also plenty of English (and whatever other language, it’s not like the two are correlated in any way) speaking folks who believe all those things as well, but that doesn’t mean we instantly discount all people who speak English because of that.
The proliferation of flat earth theory (as a movement, in its modern incarnation) and antivaxxers started in the English-speaking Internet.
That’s a hilarious escape hatch to try using once you saw how badly people reacted to it. “GUYS it’s ok I was only joking!” Absolutely nothing in your comment came off as being non-serious in tone, and nothing whatsoever in your further responses indicates that was even remotely the case either. Sarcasm doesn’t transfer well over text, but there’s absolutely no way you’re expecting people to buy that.
> The proliferation of flat earth theory (as a movement, in its modern incarnation) and antivaxxers started in the English-speaking Internet.
No shit Sherlock, it’s as if that was my point or something.
Do you want a reason to be angry? Try finding a better reason, like the environment, or nuclear proliferation, etc.
If we steered society towards what makes people comfortable the world would be a very horrible place to live.
Galileo, for example, would have said "OK guys, sorry for making you feel certain way, I better stop using my telescope and doing science so your imaginary friend is not angry".
Have a good day.
There was no tone shift. There was no /s. There was no “non-serious” tone there. You wanted to call into question their credentials, and found the most idiotic thing you could and ran with it.
The fact that every single one of your replies is serious and aggressive in tone does not help your case. Obviously that one paragraph is the sole exception, obviously.
Next time, just take the L in stride.
Being a native speaker does not give you a final say in a discussion about language, that was the main point being made, with a bit of condiment.
If multiple people respond in the same way (which has happened here) then maybe, just maybe, they're all reacting to the same thing and you are just shit at making your point known.
That is the kind of nonsensical mindset that demands defiance.
Also, I don't remember having insulted you.
Whoa. Even though I'm a Latino, I've never been offended or felt discriminated against while living in the USA these last 20 years. But your comment is something else. It's obvious that you haven't interacted with any Spanish-speaking scientist, programmer, or really anyone that didn't skip high school.
> Does "ethernet" have a formally recognized translation by the RAE? No, it doesn't. You are being dishonest and making stuff up here.
It doesn't, but that doesn't mean you're forbidden from using a word. Every Spanish-speaking IT professional pronounces ethernet as "eternet", although it is written as "ethernet", because we don't have a word for it in Spanish.
I'm mad. Not at you, but at the fact that your cowardly throwaway username hasn't been banned from HN yet.
I am glad that you have not been offended or discriminated on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin in 20 years. That sounds amazing and I hope that trend extends further into the future. The sad part is that it is irrelevant in this context. You could be an elf immigrant living in Mordor and that would have absolutely no relation to this whatsoever.
> But your comment is something else. It's obvious that you haven't interacted with any Spanish-speaking scientist, programmer, or really anyone that didn't skip high school.
The amount of incorrect information in your reply is directly proportional to its word length.
> Every Spanish-speaking IT professional pronounces ethernet as "eternet".
Do not promote your vernacular preferences to authoritative and official information.
> Not at you, but at the fact that your cowardly throwaway username hasn't been banned from HN yet.
I am sorry to inform you that "copperx" is also a pseudonym and that the coward designation you have so eagerly used to refer to me, would also apply to you as well if we follow your logic.
What a weird discussion.
Look up and down the topic, plenty of examples of people sharing contradictory experiences on these questions and referencing the variety of types of Spanish (anywhere from a dozen to dozens, depending how you slice it).
And the comment, even if taken literally with no rhetorical effect intended, was that "most" of the Spanish-speaking internet was garbage. I'd say most of ANY language internet is pretty garbage. You inflated that way out of context then clutched your pearls
So am I. Ever heard of Barrapunto (Spanish Slashdot, RIP), Menéame (Spanish Digg), Naukas (a science boosting group)?
So the most interesting discussions happen in closed circles not in the open.
It is a shitty way of building a society that has its roots in colonial times.
- La pizarra de Yuri
- Naukas
- La Aldea Irreductible
These have been since ~y2k or close.
The newer ones came from http://cienciaes.com
Avoid political/philosophical discussions with people from Liberal Arts. They are full of ego's.
They were about wealth extraction and draining others as fast and unsustainably as possible.
The movements of independence had their origin in Masonic lodges. University founders were either part of the Roman Catholic church, jesuits or masons. All of them known to exclude people for different reasons.
If you were a brilliant woman you would be excluded by masons.
If you were a brilliant person but did not have your sacraments or you were an illegimate child then a Roman Catholic university would likely tell you to go somewhere else. In fact, it is likely that if you died you could not even get a marked grave in a cemetery.
So if you were not wealthy, ethnically european, male or connected to the church or masons then the chances you would be someone in life, and part of the historic record, let alone an intellectual with published works were shit.
And if you somehow surpassed all those barriers and published something then who would buy it? nobody. Because haciendas paid with food, nobody except the Patron would know how to read and the entire continent was all haciendas with indentured servitude until land reforms changed that.
The elites that govern Latin America are not necessarily more altruistic than conquistadors. The difference is closer to Pepsi and Coca-Cola, a bunch of aggrandized cowards that exploit, marginalize people and spend all their day devising new ways to implement structural violence.
Fast forward to 2023, the generation that could make a difference is wasting their time playing Minecraft and Fortnite, or making a stupid TikTok video in their Huawei phones. That is more comforting than getting stabbed in the street.
So yeah, Spanish-speaking Internet is a reflection of that legacy and it is in many cases a sewer of the mind. It is getting better, and there is hope, but we have to say it.
The old-Regime lovers screwed up with the Spanish people against the classical liberal constitution with Ferndinand VII, the biggest turd ever before Franco.
This isn't exclusively true of the Spanish speaking world though. The more I see the people of my generation who have achieved prominence in the academic humanities, the more I've concluded the main qualification is ego, tribalism, being a controversialist and titanium self-confidence in your genius. Actual intellegence or intellectual rigour is a handicap.
That's the Latino internet. European Spanish internet is more about the Black Legend, posts about Spanish Empire by a user who inevitably has a Burgundy cross avatar, Franco nostalgia and how England and Holland cheated them of glory.
By the way, the spanish phoneme 'z' is pronounced differently to the english phoneme 'z'.
We can do that in "think" or "thanks". But not in "they". In the latter case we tend to mispronounce it as a Spanish phoneme 'd'.
Taken from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology#Consonants
"The phonemes /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ are realized as approximants (namely [β̞, ð̞, ɣ˕], hereafter represented without the downtacks) or fricatives[6] in all places except after a pause, after a nasal consonant, or—in the case of /d/—after a lateral consonant; in such contexts they are realized as voiced stops.[7] (In one region of Spain, the area around Madrid, word-final /d/ is sometimes pronounced [θ] especially in a colloquial pronunciation of its name, Madriz ([maˈðɾiθ]).[8]) "
And, if the case of participles, we just nearly butcher the in-between 'd' in -ado as -ao, simillarly to the Southern speakers from the US on lots of words.
What I meant is that the closest sound to "th" in Spanish would be "z" or "d" instead of "t", as other replies have pointed out.
>"k1 = A constant that depends on many factors related to the chip manufacturing process"
Me: Then k1 is not really a constant, is it?
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:-) <g> :-)
But on a serious note, all nitpicking aside, an interesting technology and excellent article!