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Comment Baking in the wrong kitchen (Score -1, Troll) 49

When life on Earth was the most abundant, is when CO2 was substantially higher than it is now, and it was also much warmer.

That depends on the layout of the continents of the time. When in the "wrong" spot, we had vast deserts, not jungles.

And humans from Northern latitudes are not well adapted to jungles. It would be ironic if Caucasian's own pollution makes Caucasians obsolete.

Comment Re:Not powers of 2? (Score 1) 51

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks! Seems kind of like how RISC chips result in bigger EXE binaries, but as a trade for speed and/or power efficiency.

But do (traditional) CPU's also struggle with slightly more resolution per node?

I wonder if a new kind of CPU can be designed around smallish resolution AI nodes yet still do its regular CPU work relatively well. Thus, juice up its AI abilities with little or no penalty for ordinary calculations.

Comment Not powers of 2? (Score 1) 51

TFA: Bitnets quantize weights into just three values: -1, 0, and 1. In theory, that makes them far more efficient [on limited hardware]

Why 3? If the resolution is whatever one chooses (at the expense of more nodes), then wouldn't powers of two be more efficient on a regular CPU? "3" wastes numeric real-estate it seems.

Does it need an odd number in order to have a zero, a "central" value? Even then, it seems higher resolution nodes would have to sacrifice less to get achieve that.

Comment Cat Fight (Score 1) 33

Steve Bannon and Elon had a cat-fight over visa workers.

Looks like Elon mostly won, as Don still allows them, but wants to make sure they are quickly booted after their stay is up.

It's not that Don trusts Elon more, it's probably that Elon has more cash and donates bigly. Don used to claim he "can't be bought" because he's rich. But Elon's far richer. The biggest fish in the sea met a whale.

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