I found the Slashdot headline to be ambiguous to be ambiguous between "twin of Sol" and "binary star", and am glad the comments were able to disambiguate for me without my having to RTFA.

He was texting during the previews

You mean before the 3D cartoon advising to turn off cell phones? Then he was not given adequate warning.

Yes benefits is a verb, but in this context it is a transitive verb, meaning a direct object is required.

Cairo graphics? Why tie C++ to Windows 95?

Site is starting to get Slashdotted.

1+1 occasionally equaling 4

Are you referring to the lack of ECC RAM on consumer grade GPUs or are you saying you know of FDIV or overclocking style unreliability in the compute engines themselves?

Social media data (Facebook, LinkedIn), etc. will always be available. Even UseNet is still available as a 2.1GB download.

I wrote "introduced" not "invented". If you know of a commercial application of 16-bit floats that predate GPUs, I'd be very interested in learning about it.

GPUs have already introduced half-precision -- 16-bit floats. An earlier 2011 paper by the same author as the one in this Slashdot summary cites a power savings of 60% for a "an approximate computing" adder, which isn't that much better than just going with 16-bit floats. I suppose both could be combined for even greater power savings, but my gut feeling is that I would have expected even more power savings once the severe constraint of exact results is discarded.

It wasn't obvious in 2010Q3, pre-monsoon pre-LTO-6. 1.5/3.0 TB tape (LTO-5) was $110 and 2.0TB HDD was $70. And the tape price didn't include the price of the tape drive.

Makes me wonder how much longer the term "Cyber Monday" will be relevant if we're all continuously plugged into Amazon anyway and don't need to be at a desktop/laptop.

Also: this supermodell example is utter bullshit. Enough men just like an ordinary woman and enough women just want an ordinary man.

The problem is that photos, generally, look less attractive than people do in real life, in part because the photo becomes such a focal point in contrast to real life where there is a whole person.

i wonder if the algorithm is smart enough to offset male attractiveness based on bank account balance

The paper's approach is based not on AI computer vision of attractiveness, nor even "hot or not" scoring by some audience, but rather upon who receives "initial contacts" and from whom. These initial contacts comprise the edges of a bipartite graph.

So if a man's profile photo includes his Porsche or Rolex, or he mentions in his text copy how much "he loves living in [swanky neighborhood]", then, yes, this approach would reflect attraction towards wealth.

I'm just waiting for the first tax audits of BitCoin users who get dinged for not having paid capital gains tax. I give it a few years.

And the pun in the last sentence of the Slashdot summary is why there are not more.