Comment Re: wtf is JPEG-XL (Score 1) 41
Here's a little sticker for knowing what Firefox is tho. You must be good at computers.
Comment Re: wtf is JPEG-XL (Score 3, Insightful) 41
There have been numerous articles about it recently. You have the internet. No need to stop the class just because you're the only lazy ignoramus around here.
Comment Re:What can possibly go wrong (Score 3, Insightful) 38
you're an old and bitter man, and you've only yourself to blame
and I'm old too and a loooong time c++ professional dev (and still am) and somehow the idea of change or the word 'Rust' doesn't make me shit my pants
I feel bad for you
Comment Re:Safer? (Score 4, Interesting) 76
Patents, buddy. Developers know things better than you do. Plus other reasons, but I suspect you'll just handwave them all away because you're very very smart. It's definitely not vastly better than JPEG XL.
Comment Re:Safer? (Score 1) 76
There's no possible way you're a programmer.
Submission + - Leak-Proof AI Benchmark Posts Biggest Gain in 20 Years, on One CPU Core (spasim.org)
Baldrson writes: The Hutter Prize for lossless compression of human knowledge has paid out nearly €50,000: its largest advance in 20 years: three entries together cut the record for compressing a 1GB Wikipedia snapshot by nearly 10%: a compression ratio of more than a factor of 10. Every entry ran on a single CPU core, in about 50 hours and under 10GB of RAM, so the gain came from algorithms.
Unlike most AI benchmarks, the prize requires no validation data, so a leak can't inflate a score. The full file is public, and the size of the decompressor counts against the entry, so anything memorized is paid for in bits. Vladimir Ivanov's fx2-cmix-T now holds the record, after earlier 2026 gains by Ibrahim Marcouch and Kaido Orav (cmix-lex) and David Freelan (cmix-obias). Sponsor Marcus Hutter, who advised DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg's 2008 thesis "Machine Super Intelligence," calls it "the largest progress in its 20-year history." With trillions riding on claims of AI progress and data-center power demand, is a leak-proof, energy-limited benchmark the yardstick the industry should be watching?
(Disclosure: the submitter is on the Hutter Prize committee.)
Unlike most AI benchmarks, the prize requires no validation data, so a leak can't inflate a score. The full file is public, and the size of the decompressor counts against the entry, so anything memorized is paid for in bits. Vladimir Ivanov's fx2-cmix-T now holds the record, after earlier 2026 gains by Ibrahim Marcouch and Kaido Orav (cmix-lex) and David Freelan (cmix-obias). Sponsor Marcus Hutter, who advised DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg's 2008 thesis "Machine Super Intelligence," calls it "the largest progress in its 20-year history." With trillions riding on claims of AI progress and data-center power demand, is a leak-proof, energy-limited benchmark the yardstick the industry should be watching?
(Disclosure: the submitter is on the Hutter Prize committee.)
Comment Re:Ask it questions (Score 1) 115
Its reply to me:
"Yes, in large part."
Comment Re: Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen (Score 1) 57
But that is mostly caused by NVidia's lackluster driver support in Linux.
Uh, sure.
Comment Re:Governments and AI (Score 1) 67
Governments are people.
Comment Re:80% and nonusers still have to foot the bill? (Score 1) 90
"These fuckers are why you are seeing less physical switch games as an example"
Buwhaha
Comment Re:Nintendo Digitech 2.0 (Score 1) 119
Yeah, I know what you mean. I just did it the easy way - dropped out of university, eventually move to Montreal where it was almost *difficult* to be a programmer and not end up at a game studio. Thankfully the industry grew in Toronto as well and I was able to move back after some lovely years there.
Comment Re:Nintendo Digitech 2.0 (Score 2) 119
I'm an oldhead programmer (still) in the games industry. You're thinking of DigiPen. (I didn't go there.)
Comment that doesn't bode well for the future (Score 1) 119
it's just a pipeline for techno-oligarchs
Comment and more (Score 3, Informative) 260
"a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming"
How is this not an indictment on America's ability not to raise incredibly dumb voters? I mean
Comment truly the steward America needs (Score 1) 260
"We need to call it Super Intelligence!" Trump demanded, waggling a finger at an iPod.
Lol, this is the president some people are willing to tolerate for a party that promises you'll have lower taxes (while only giving them to the upper class) and less thinking about trans people or something. Communism! Boo! It's quite astounding.
