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Comment What do you want us to do about it. (Score 1) 58

I'm not going to be one of those people who say humans didn't play a role, but seriously. Good luck fixing this. How much energy is needed to raise the world's ocean temperatures by 0.1F TLDR# It would take 3.00e+23 joules to raise the temperature by 0.1F, or 3.42 trillion "Fat Man" Nukes. Or 239 Billion of our new Modern Minuteman III nukes. Calcs to raise ocean temps 0.1F mass_oceans = 1.35e21 # in kg specific_heat_water = 4000 # in J/(kgC) temperature_change = 0.0556 # in C (0.1F to C) # Energy calculation energy_required = mass_oceans * specific_heat_water * temperature_change energy_required Result 3.00e+23 joules How many "Fat Man" nukes would that take? # Energy of one "Fat Man" bomb (in joules) kiloton_to_joules = 4.184e9 # in joules per kiloton fatman_yield = 21 # in kilotons # Energy of one Fat Man bomb energy_fatman = fatman_yield * kiloton_to_joules # Number of Fat Man bombs needed num_bombs = energy_required / energy_fatman num_bombs Result 3.42 Trillion Fat Man Nukes

Comment Re:A bit overpriced compared to the human competit (Score 1) 112

Why do people assume you'd keep it for a whole year like a person? It's a tool. You just have to learn how to plan the workload. Get everything together and let it chew through your workload for a month or so and be done with it. A person cannot compete with how long and continuously these models can run.

Comment Give it time (Score 2) 76

Who are they comparing the AI to? A 50-year veteran of coding or someone one just the most basic understanding? Let's say you have a master coder they have a perfect score of 100. The AI is what 20, 30, 50? Where was it when it first came out? How much has it been improving month to month? I know that the last 10% will be tough with diminishing returns but at what point is it better than 50% or 75% of coders? And I don't want another programming language but aren't most languages written so we humans can wield them? What if there was another language that was more suited for AI coders? Or does it even matter?

Comment Re:A dangerous game (Score 1) 27

I think so, because I'd like to know why people don't like him without mentioning his wealth or parroting Reddit rumors of what he might do in the future. Are there any past crazy scandals I'm unaware about. And no I don't care about how he came to this country, our immigration system is broken. At most he would have filed an extension or gotten a new visa and vacationed at home while they waited for it to be active again. I'm no expert on visas but it sounds like work for a lawyer and they move at the speed of money.

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