e.g. the reason why x86 clobbered everyone else in the 1985-2005 period was that nobody else shipped enough units to keep ahead in terms of technology development. The slogan should be "Never bet against the CPU architecture that ships the most units" and today that translates to "Never bet against ARM"
Lately I've made making some AWS Lambda functions to do some simple things in Python and chose to use the ARM-based instances because there wasn't any reason not to.
Since you seem to be having fun but not a boomer and maybe even have a day job, don't mind grandfather. he has a vendetta against crackpots, but you don't fit that mold
I think the technical term is "idempotency", please look up fixed points[0] or "Lyapounov"..
(academia.edu feels scammy I did not click. Taleb uses it but I don't read his technical stuff tbh)
yes it is underappreciated..
Eg when applied to the Bethe-Salpeter equation this leads to a condition for the superconductor transition temperature.. (similar to the BEC condition which is much easier to compute)
I'd just like to know, did you have help from an LLM when writing that
you find a lot of things that are unsatisfying such as you never got a relevance score better than p=0.7 or so and that's very very rare. There are many specific problems in IR for which that kind of probability would be really helpful such as combining results that came from different sources or returning a stream of new documents from a collection but it was an early decision in TREC to not reward ranking functions that were good probability estimators or even that are good at the top-1 or top-3 positions but rather reward them for still being enriched in relevant results when you go deep (like 1000 results deep) into the results.
> Does Fusion produce radioactive nuclear waste the same way fission does?
> Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei; some of these are radioactive for millions of years. Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas. It also produces and consumes tritium within the plant in a closed circuit. Tritium is radioactive (a beta emitter) but its half life is short. It is only used in low amounts so, unlike long-lived radioactive nuclei, it cannot produce any serious danger.
> The activation of the reactor’s structural material by intense neutron fluxes is another issue. This strongly depends on what solution for blanket and other structures has been adopted, and its reduction is an important challenge for future fusion experiments.
Every day I like Mastodon more and I don't totally understand why. I think it helped that (1) some of the most inflamed and inflammable people from Mastodon moved on to Bluesky and (2) the algorithmic feed on Bluesky actually does filter the worst content if you are consistent with the "show me less like this button".
I think the quality of engagement I get on Mastodon is better than everywhere.
I don't buy into the "you have to be on one place" story though, I post my photos to a wide range of sites because it isn't that much extra work: I mean, I post to Instagram because that's what students at my Uni use [1] and posting those to Threads is just a flip of a switch.
[1] even if Instagram mostly shows my photos to people in India
"All I needed was patience but I didn't have time"
In the great fight between Covey (7 Habits) and Collins (Good to Great) I tend to agree with Collins that realized purpose is more important than structure, habits or technique. There are few ways I could serve you worse than to increase your patience or grit applied to the wrong task.
Back in the 90's I had an overclocked AMD486 machine which seemed OK most of the time but had segfaults compiling the Linux kernel. I sent in a bug report and Alan Cox closed it saying it was the fault of my machine being overclocked.
I dialed the machine back to the rated speed but it failed completely within 6 months.
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