For those who didn't follow it, it's not that it's a contact binary that is so neat in and of itself, it's that when they modeled it, they determined that, the collision that formed it was less than 5 meters per second (less than 11 mph / 18 kph). Like a parking lot fender bender, but with the cars being ~750 billion tonnes.
Sure, and we are looking for thing that cannot.
We are? We're talking about somebody using the term "quantum material", not looking for evidence supporting quantum physics.
Even so, you should be able to pretty easily notice deviations from Maxwell. It's a pain in the ass with film but pretty well any modern CCD or CMOS sensor should be able to detect shot noise from a double slit, crossed polarizer or just plain old light source experiment at tabletop scale. If not, add an ND filter.
'd be very careful about interpreting QM as "how it works".
Yeah, I didn't say that. It's pretty easy to show that both quantum mechanics and Maxwell are not how it works. Your claim that a polarizer is not a "quantum material" because you can explain it's behaviour with a classical theory (in very limited circumstances) really is assuming "that's how it works" though.
Or Slashdot will tell you you need 10 terabytes of the fastest VRAM and a few dozen of the very latest processors from Nvidia.
There it is!
You don't need any RAM at all. You can read each weight from an SSD, a hard drive or a stone tablet. If it's an SSD it's not necessarily "incredibly slow" if you're just playing around and aren't ready to spend fifty thousand dollars on your chatbot. There are benchmarks for running big models on Raspberry Pis for example.
The 50 B generally means you're going to be able to do things like hold most or all of the matrices in memory while you multiply them, which is usually a pretty big performance increase.
Convenience comes before the rare occasions when it's actually pleasurable to drive a standard day to day. I do not miss a clutch crawling along in traffic or cruising on the highway. And for the in-between bits my car has both a shift by wire stick and paddle shifters if I want to make vroom vroom noises and pretend I'm in F1.
Nah. Learn Chisanbop, Korean finger math, instead. An abacus you'll always have with you. Hopefully.
Indeed "driving" as an active pastime is really gone in North America. It's been a real problem for car makers in the last couple of decades. They used to be able to advertise to and appeal to the driving lifestyle people. But recent generations just don't care that much about driving, other than being a means to an end. One car is very much like another. There's no lifestyle branding that works anymore. The number of teenagers getting drivers licenses has been falling for years.
Maybe not an abacus, but definitely a slide rule!
I have a friend who has driven a manual most of her adult life yet really doesn't know how to correctly run a manual. Or at least has a lot of bad habits. But hey it keeps the mechanics in business changing clutches.
Quantized to 2 bits you might just about be able to run it with 512GB of RAM and 24GB of VRAM. But it would lose a lot of its intelligence.
However, there are people who've been running big models on consumer hardware by streaming data from an SSD rather than keeping it all in RAM. Significantly slower but doable.
It depends what you want to do. Minimum requirement is something able to multiply numbers and with (probably) about 3 terabytes of storage space.
You're probably actually going to want something that can at least hold those 50 billion parameters in some sort of reasonably fast memory. That's probably about 50 GB.
Or Slashdot will tell you you need 10 terabytes of the fastest VRAM and a few dozen of the very latest processors from Nvidia.
Give it a bit though. Whenever an open weight model is released there's a very active community that boils it down to something almost as good in a lot smaller space.
> I don't think there's evidence of either of these statements.
You're claiming that Western countries haven't imported millions of low-trust people and haven't put low-trust people in positions of power? Are you living in a VR simulation of the 1980s or something?
> They say on yet another story about the current admin of homegrown Americans getting into politics to make their family and tribe rich.
"Homegrown Americans" often now come from low-trust immigration. Somalians, Haitians, Irish and Italians can now be "homegrown Americans."
It's just another Boomer phrase that's been redefined until it's meaningless.
Late-stage democracy will always end with the elected leaders looting everything they can. Because why wouldn't they? No-one is going to stop them and they may only have a few years to loot before they get voted out.
Sure, it's a problem that oligarchs can just buy politicians, but that's a feature of democracy, not a feature of capitalism. Kings usually won't sell out their country because they own it and want to keep it. Elected politicians are just renters and don't care what happens to the country after they're gone.
I am talking about a standardized drop in compatible PACK, not the individual base cells.
Yes, and you pointed out yourself that nothing is really standardized like that across cars. When you go to your autoparts store and ask the guy for pretty much anything from transmission fluid to windshield wipers he asks you the make, model and year, then looks up the correct part because none of it is standardized.
Let me just go on rock auto and order a Tesla compatible battery pack - um nope.
https://greentecauto.ca/produc...
I'm not an AI lawyer, but isn't it a legal requirement to not delete documents that may be related to a court case once you're informed that you may have documents related to a court case? If so, they could end up in court themselves if they do delete them and aren't friends of powerful political figures who will protect them.
You don't get high-trust behaviour in a low-trust society. And you don't get a high-trust society when you import tens of millions of low-trust people and put them in positions of power.
Political grift is the norm in most of the world and governments have imported it into the West en masse. People in low-trust countries don't go into politics for the good of their country, they go into politics to make their family and tribe rich.
Some people have a great ambition: to build something that will last, at least until they've finished building it.
