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Comment Quantum noise (Score 1) 10

Any article talking about qubit counts should reference the computers capabilities in terms of logical qubits.

Any article talking about error correction should provide a scaling law for the required fanout of correction circuitry as a function of logical qubit count.

Any article failing to do either of these things is a waste of time.

Comment Re:Won't happen in the Unted States (Score 2) 55

It doesn't matter if it is investor owned or publicly owned.

Probably not in California. Investor owned companies pay taxes into the system to help keep public utilities cheap. In return, they get favorable regulations to keep revenue up, competition out and taxes rolling in. As long as they don't squeal too much under the thumb.

It's really a merger of state and corporate power.
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing agaisnt the state."

Comment Re:Won't happen in the Unted States (Score 2) 55

The utilities lobbyists will see to that.

This.

It works in Africa because there are no incumbent producers whose market is being threatened.

It could happen in the USA, but for the structure of the utilities' capital financing. You may _think_ you are paying so much for a kilowatt-hour. In reality, a good chunk of utilities costs are fixed. And the rate structures are designed to recapture those, concealed as energy rates. Now here come the micro solar and wind producers, expecting to use the grid as their marketplace. Buying and selling energy across it and hoping to break even or possibly squeeze out a profit. But that won't pay for the system, so the utilities will rewrite their rate schedules to get people to pay for the infrastructure they use. Which means that your solar buy/sell rates drop to near zero. And most of your bill becomes a fee to connect to the system, independent of which way the net power flows.

Now calculate your ROI on solar panels.

Comment Re:You can shoot the messenger all you want (Score 1) 66

But everything I said was a fact.

You wouldn't know the facts if they hit you on the head. This is the source:
https://searchepsteinfiles.com...

From this you somehow manage to infer the following:

"So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.

Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?"

NONE of the shit you spouted above is anything even remotely resembling a "fact". FFS you even manage to get the speaker wrong. It was Jeffrey's brother who made the statement.

If that makes you uncomfortable what the hell does that say about you?

What makes me uncomfortable is coming to obviously absurd conclusions based on shit information and then proceeding to wonder "what the hell is wrong with our world".. Look in the goddamn mirror.

Comment Re: If Trump hadn't won (Score 1) 66

So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.

Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?

What the hell is wrong with YOU? Get some mental help or something dude... your rantings are completely unhinged.

Comment Re:This lays bare one of the problems with LLMs... (Score 1) 70

What too many people do not seem to understand with LLMs is that everything it spits out is simply a probability matrix based on the input you gave it. It will first attempt to deconstruct the input you provided and use statistical analysis against it's trained knowledge base to then spit out letters, words, phrases and punctuation that statistically resembles the outputs it was trained to produce in it's training materials.

LLMs are simple feed forward networks run in a loop. They make no use of "statistical analysis" nor is there a "knowledge base".

The just statistics statements are as useful as saying just autocomplete or just deterministic. These are completely meaningless statements that in no way address capabilities of the underlying system.

Until this version, ChatGPT obviously suffered from a lack of training materials within it's trained neural network to have it overcome the English language's typed grammar rules for it to be able to discern that em dashes are not typically used in everyday conversations and/or that the input to not use them needed to change it's underlying probability network to be able to ignore the English language's grammar rules and adopt it's output without the use of the em dash.

It's is shorthand for "it is" ... "change its underlying probability" not "change it is underlying probability". "adapt its output" not "adopt it is output".

This is a very difficult concept to train into a neural network as it needs to have been training on specifically this input/output case long enough to have that training override the base English grammar language model, which is a fundamental piece of knowledge a LLM requires to function and one of the very first things it is trained to handle.

This is gobbledygook. You are guessing and have no actual clue how the technology works.

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