It turns out that the hardest part of this project wasn't designing the model or training it. Instead, it was hunting down the peripheral equipment to transcribe it onto paper tape so that it could be loaded onto the FAA's Sperry Rand mainframe running in a basement somewhere in Maryland.

I like to think the delay is justified by the fact that IF you think in terms of 1800s tech, America is huge and it can take a while for horses to pull a wagon from sea to shining sea.

It's November 1860 and you just won your election to be the new Senator from Oregon. You have two months to get to DC. Can you do it? (Yes, you can do it in a "mere" 3-4 weeks thanks to rail. But before rail? No way two months is enough.)

The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances.

Are you seeing a lot of support for the "people should be forced to use a data center to run AIs, instead of being allowed to do it at home using solar power" position?

What I saw last week, is that "think of the children" means that no one should ever fucking ever let a Republican anywhere within ten feet of a child, rather than it meaning we need to give data centers a monopoly on running AI.

The RAM crisis is it. This is the high-water mark on suppressing competition. It was a clever move, but the consumer market isn't going to tolerate electronic gizmos and video games being expensive forever. As soon as someone decides they want money and opens another RAM factory, the AI companies are in trouble. They have this brief pre-Personal-Computer-Revolution situation going on like 1960s IBM, and the 1970s are coming to fuck their shit up.

Yo dawg, I heard you like DMCA, so I sent you a DMCA notice (Title 17 Section 512) about DMCA-prohibited circumvention (Title 17 Section 1201).

Dating people at work is generally OK as long as one doesn't report to the other directly or indirectly.

HR usually wants to know so that they can rearrange the corporate hierarchy to avoid such unseemly conflicts of interest. It's their business because it's unfair to everyone else under that dating boss if one of their colleagues is exchanging "special favors" with the boss.

Not all of the UPSes need to be doing their test at the same time, just some of them. Mine, for example, tests every large handful of days (somethig like every two weeks). It's sufficient that a fraction will be doing their testing synchronized to a reasonably accurate clock and thus will be creating a load that is in lock-step, and have a detectable result.

You've obviously never held a real job.

Every company that I've ever worked for over the decades made this kind of policy 100% clear to new hires, and some of them repeated it at least annually (along with other boring annual training on things like not sending sensitive tech to places like China).

When I was working for a startup in the early 2000s, we had our own servers. We were growing, so were adding servers at a pretty good clip. After one particular expansion, all of a sudden, Saturday night at 3 am, we blew breaker. No one had a good explanation, but the sysadmins were not happy about needing to go to the office in the middle of the night to fix things up.

A week later, the same thing happened. I suggested that it was the RAID check kickoff that might be doing it. And, indeed, it was. A couple of dozen servers all seeking their drives at once was too much for the circuits they were on. Staggering the startup time fixed it.

Coherence can be good, like when you're rowing crew, or bad, like when you have dozens of drives all drawing max power. Or, from the summary, gazoober UPS systems doing a battery check.

That is turbine efficiency and not reactor efficiency. While the HALEU reactor designs have higher uranium efficiency than 3rd generation reactors, within the same design you always end up with higher potential efficiency with a larger reactor. I'm not certain if the uranium efficiency in the HALEU would be as high if you consider the additional enrichment energy input though. HALEU's primary benefit seems to be longer refueling cycle times.

What you wrote is exactly true. But I would not use the word "cytotoxic", as it's too opaque. Instead, I'd suggest using "intentionally poisonous" to reach a larger audience. Chemotherapy kills cancer cells just a little faster than the patient. If given correctly, the cancer dies, while the patient can (somewhat) recover -- that's what non-specialists need to understand.

I'm just super impressed that he could generate any kind of video at all with his VIC-20.

The SMRs are less thermodynamically efficient and really look to struggle in getting a meaningful percentage of plant cost down to a competitive level. Reactors cost needs to drop by an order of magnitude but projections are closer to 20% at scale. Maybe you can save another (portion of) 20% on containment by ganging the units, but again no order of magnitude. Turbine? Switchgear? Operating cost? Where do you save enough for it to be meaningful?

That still puts construction cost around $0.10/kWh. If we are optimistic, operation andmaintenanc add another $0.10/kWh. Then you have the inherently high transmission and distribution cost for centralized generation. Oh, and some allowance for decomposing should be made as well, and a reasonable set-aside is about 25% of construction cost, or another $0.025.

PV in comparison is around $0.12 for capital plus operational costs. When stored it gets close to the cost of nuclear, but still slightly lower and with the potential for significantly lower transmission and distribution costs.

The law doesn't explicitly define the term repeat infringer, nor does it say how many piracy accusations it takes before a subscriber can be cut off.

[emphasis mine] Surely they mean convictions, no?

Why would accusations be relevant? I accuse every single member of the Mexican government of having violated the copyright on my work, four times each. They all did it four times. No, I can't prove it, but the accusation stands.

Pretty sure the $100MM is gross margin, not gross sales.