Would it be feasible to burn into the chip only a few layers of a transformer, for instance the first layers, and then train the rest? In this way you pair some speed-up and some trainability.

I'm not an expert, but as far as I know there are contexts where basically only training the outer layer gives you a decent-enough neural network.

It's important we dress our astronauts smart and classy, for when we find aliens. We want to give a good first impression when we shake their tentacle.

<blockquote>Seizing names just makes it harder to find sites, but if users are expecting to have to find the current site name, then it starts to get more futile.</blockquote>

And then helpful Wikipedia editors conveniently document for posterity the current site name, so users always know where to look.

Why would it be illegal to give them a discount? I understand not wanting to undermine the relationship with the other vendors, but illegal?

Why would you want to forbid them? Who are you, the hostname police?

This cannot be legal in the EU, right? Or even if only one of your employees works remotely from EU?

Well it's an answer; no one said the answer is correct.

How good are mitigations to speculative execution attacks (Spectre, Meltdown) on the new Apple processors?

Do they beat Intel in this respect, too?

Microsoft is rebranding every one of their products "Copilot", so at this point it seems hard to avoid using it.

Can someone ELI5 what they are trying to build? Is it something similar to Android's verified boot + attestation or Play Integrity?

Because it's trivial to circumvent this security feature with a Faraday bag.

If you block Cloudflare, you block about 25% of the internet. Good luck with that.

Can't you do the same in a more standards-compatible way with CTRL+c, CTRL+v?

They have no need for it, when they always have a phone in their pocket. Are we also surprised people can't use a slide rule, ride a horse, or light a fire with a flint stone?

Oof I forgot that Slashdot is stuck in the second millennium ASCII era.