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fuzzbazz··on TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology
If the marketing naming is to be believed, in 1.4nm vs 4nm you'd be able to fit ~twice the transistors in your chip. That's twice the cores, twice the cache... That usually makes it faster.
fuzzbazz··on Texas has banned talking on college campuses at night. Seriously
> on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m

The intent may be also seen as pro-education: "they're free to protest elsewhere without annoying other students"

fuzzbazz··on XAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site
Can't verify from the low quality photo in the article.

This [1] press release from the Southern Environmental Law Center hints to a possible reason - they may be migrating from small to bigger turbines:

> Aerial images obtained by SELC revealed 35 turbines at the site in March (...) while the company has removed some smaller-sized turbines, it has recently installed three larger turbines

[1] https://www.selc.org/press-release/elon-musks-xai-threatened...

fuzzbazz··on Air India crash points to systemic problems at Boeing that CEO Ortberg must fix
It turns out 248.5 days is ~2^31 hundredths of a second.

Was this the uptime of the Air India plane? Or it's just speculation?

fuzzbazz··on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
From a quick web search I can find that there are book review sites that allow users to enter and rate verbatim "quotes" from books. This one [1] contains ~2000 [2] portions of a sentence, a paragraph or several paragraphs of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Could it be plausible that an LLM had ingested parts of the book via scrapping web pages like this and not the full copyrighted book and get results similar to those of the linked study?

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4640799-harry-potter-a...

[2] ~30 portions x 68 pages

fuzzbazz··on I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]
> won't hold up in court

Does that even matter? because at 4:50 on the video you can clearly read:

    "You agree to give up your right to go to court to assert or defend your rights under these Terms" 
... in the "binding arbitration and no class action" terms that you need to Agree to.
fuzzbazz··on Why DeepSeek had to be open source
There is no way to decompile an LLM's weights and obtain a somewhat meaningful, reproducible source, like with a program binary as you say. In fact, if we were to compare both in this way that would make a program binary more "open source".
fuzzbazz··on OpenAI reveals why ChatGPT won't say "David Mayer"
These names show a "right to forget" notice when you google them. Crashing or completely bailing out when they're about to be generated by the LLM sure looks like a glitch, or somebody forgot that multiple people can have the same name. Anyways, these are now being Streissand efected due to this behavior, the opposite of the intended result of the legislation.
fuzzbazz··on Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status
Alternative title: Nobody with an email ending in .ru left in the MANTAINERS file.
fuzzbazz··on Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's
We'll know for sure the next time twitch's source code leaks
fuzzbazz··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
How can you even have democracy without freedom of speech?

How can you freely choose who to vote without free exchange of information?

fuzzbazz··on Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs
Please can we rollback everything to scenario #1 already? I'm starting to think that #2 and #3 are actively counter-productive and the pendulum is going to swing back too hard.
fuzzbazz··on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
65173 rulings in 230 days by 11 people. That's 25.76 rulings per person per day if we ignore holidays and weekends.

They can't possibly read the cases, is this a kangaroo court?

fuzzbazz··on The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X Review: Flagship Zen 5 Soars and Stalls
I mean, it works properly, but a bit slower. The driver just detects if the kind of application currently running (i.e. a game) needs to be confined to only one CCD.

The core to core latency between the two CCDs seems to have doubled from the 7xxx series according to some latency benchmarks I saw yesterday.

fuzzbazz··on WHO Declares Global Emergency over New Mpox Outbreak
According to Wikipedia the virus is still called "monkeypox virus" and the disease "mpox disease". One reason for the change may have been to have different names for these different things.
fuzzbazz··on Bipartisan consensus in favor of renewable power is ending
Nuclear fusion is renewable.

Nuclear fission with breeder reactors is renewable.

Nuclear fission with conventional reactors and U-235 fuel is not renewable.

fuzzbazz··on Want to pay cash? That'll cost you extra
The butcher, the baker and the mechanic pay 35% income tax each. The original $100 turned into -$5 at the end.
fuzzbazz··on Tesla Owners Get Only 64% of EPA Range After Just Three Years: Study
> The basic EPA testing protocol gets it wrong for all EVs.

> It doesn't factor in temperature changes or driving above 60 miles per hour

Well, there's the problem, drag increases with the square of speed and temperature affects battery capacity. Maybe they tested with the AC turned off too.

fuzzbazz··on El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour
Cool, but it could be better if some of the paintings didn't have so much light reflected from the roof, like in room 12. Maybe the camera should have been higher?
fuzzbazz··on A data-driven case for why TikTok needs to be banned before the 2024 election
In the democratic ones it's just a ban on campaign ads and opinion polls for the 24-48h before an election and on the election day.
fuzzbazz··on 525 Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended
> PFAS were found in the majority of the straws tested and were most common in those made from paper and bamboo, found the study, published in Food Additives & Contaminants. [1]

I would prefer not to consume this with my drink [2].

Not every seemingly positive action is actually positive. Second order effects must be always considered.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2023-08-paper-straws-environment-plast...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...

fuzzbazz··on Russian troops use Starlink licensed and imported from Dubai
Instead of obtaining the enemy coordinates or sniffing their transmissions you're suggesting to waste ammo on shooting down 5000+ LEO satellites?
fuzzbazz··on X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation
It seems like the CTO was made aware of the situation and 15 minutes later the accounts were un-suspended. [1] https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1744766353494376749 Probably some automated system or mass report (speculating, of course).
fuzzbazz··on Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
The demand in the housing market will fall soon, according to the population pyramid.
fuzzbazz··on Website search hurts my feelings
After disabling the web search capability it seems to work properly, for me.
fuzzbazz··on You don't need analytics on your blog
Some (most?) of them announce they're bots with their user agent.
fuzzbazz··on Grindavik [video]
It went from 100 quakes per hour at the moment of eruption to 1 right now.

I wish Youtube live had chat replay to see people's reaction, it doesn't seem to work when the stream is still live.

fuzzbazz··on Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
If they make a version with only three photodiodes this patent will not apply.
fuzzbazz··on Origin of mysterious green 'ghosts' in the sky has been discovered
Even on a 1080p monitor the 2160p version of that video is much clearer than the 1080p version, the timelapses look blocky, compressed.
fuzzbazz··on Why Are So Many Americans Dying Early?
higher on average and lower in some eastern Europe countries
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