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Similar CUDA core counts for most SKUs compared to last gen (except in the 5090 vs. 4090 comparison). Similar clock speeds compared to the 40-series.

The 5090 just has way more CUDA cores and uses proportionally more power compared to the 4090, when going by CUDA core comparisons and clock speed alone.

All of the "massive gains" were comparing DLSS and other optimization strategies to standard hardware rendering.

Something tells me Nvidia made next to no gains for this generation.

The way to 'beat' the system's hard testing requirements is to make the interdisciplinary programs more involved, more quantitative, and just be more thorough and engaging, including soft skills elements.

I think the best outcome is to have such students crush their standardized tests by outperforming them due to having a higher baseline because of the interdisciplinary program's curriculum.

It's actually embarrassing to Vancouver's organizational culture that this is where the Peter Principle was identified using case examples. In many ways, that prevailing set of attitudes that were identified as deeply problematic and inefficient have exploded into a city-wide culture problem. There are so many firms that just muddle along, it's a miracle they do as well as they do.

The upside is that small and efficient firms, grounded in meritocracy, can do a decent job competing with these companies (provided they can get any ins with vendors, clients, etc.)

Tens of billions? Sama has been talking about how their ask can be for over a trillion dollars invested. What "we"? That trillion is going to come out of our pockets one way or another, either as costs passed down, as government handouts from our tax dollars, as redirected investments that dry up opportunities for SWEs elsewhere, etc.

Praising one doesn't mean condemning another.

OpenAI's engineers: brilliant, A+, A* even.

OpenAI's C-suite: Well, they earned the C, but it was a letter grade.

What a profoundly unimaginative strategy. No matter the industry, a large-scale diversion of resources towards a moonshot goal will likely get you to that goal. They haven't made an argument as to why we should do that just for them, especially with all of the other alternatives.

And no, advertising your previously secret testing models (e.g. o3) as if they were market competitors is not how to prove they should have our money.

Sometimes, I like watching the narrated movies meant for the visually impaired. It feels almost like an audiobook. Changing the content to make it more radio-like -- that's not something I'm a fan of. It's the whole "abstraction layers vs. tight coupling", except this time it's content.

It may not seem like much since it's only Apple right now, but their 3nm SoCs are stunning. I can only imagine what the industry is going to look like when this tech becomes the standard. The miniaturization potential alone can transform many other technologies, let alone its value for low-power edge compute.

The difference isn't revolutionary, but noticeable. Whoever has it will have a competitive advantage.

Many advancements in science have happened because we stopped for a second, and then looked to generalize our assumptions. Consider,

e.g.

Euclidean geometry -> non-euclidean geometry; Classical analysis -> nonstandard analysis; Linearity -> non-linearity; Homogeneity -> inhomogeneity; Flat spacetime -> curved spacetime; Singular probabilities -> superposition.

All of these were loosening of certain criteria that opened up many possibilities. It is certainly erroneous to assume we must, by necessity, have a homogeneous cosmology.

Black holes can survive a Big Crunch scenario? That can go a long way to explaining many things. Can you please provide a paper with more references to this, and potentially one with an example mechanism?

Yeah I don't think any of them spent even so much as €8 on everything, mostly coffee, some ice cream, literally a beer and that's all they needed.

I live in the PNW, but come from Croatia. When I went back after a long time away (about 7 years) and having grown up, I observed something with complete disbelief:

My friends from there, would go to their friends' ice cream parlour, grab some coffees and a beer at 8 PM. For the next four hours, they would do nothing but tell funny stories and laugh until they couldn't laugh any more. These guys literally spent 4 hours laughing together.

They did this the next day, and the next, and many more until I had to reluctantly go back to the airport and fly back to the PNW.

Nothing even remotely like this has happened since last going back. Every time I think back to it, it seems like some impossible other reality.

Sumerian Spreadsheets. This means only one thing: the History channel will find a way to attribute the creation of spreadsheets to aliens.