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.

How do the LEOs know what someone's intention is?

They only need probable cause, a threshold which can be less than 50-50 according to a 1983 Supreme Court decision.

From deep within the PDF (second link):

The two primary causes of increased fault rates at higher altitude are reduced cooling due to lower air pressure and increased cosmic ray-induced neutron strikes.

(Living in Colorado, I thought perhaps chips suffered from the same spurting newly opened toothpaste tube problem when manufactured at low altitude and installed into operation at high altitude, but it turned out the hypothesis was different, and, of course, left out of the Slashdot summary.)

When did a GPS jammer become a directed energy weapon?

It would take more than just stopping the wars. There would have to be a lot of trimming of federal agencies that have exploded, first with the New Deal, then with the New Society, and then with the GWOT. And a return to relying on excises and tariffs. The U.S. federal government survived before the imposition of the income tax to fund WWI, another war the U.S. should not have entered.