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Comment Re:East China Normal University? An old translatio (Score 1) 53

If this was an obviously expensive process then would there be so much excitement about it?...I find it strange to conclude that there's an obvious flaw that escaped mention

Look at facts, look at what was mentioned. Look at what wasn't mentioned. The article says it has real world potential, it doesn't say it's inexpensive (or even ready for the real world). There's no analysis at all of the drawbacks.

Right now, the CCP is in the process of formulating its next five year plan. Groups are hyping up their accomplishments in order to justify the funding they've been given and ensure continued funding in the future.

Comment Re:East China Normal University? An old translatio (Score 1) 53

Saving my biggest point for last... This is a clear "violation" of the claims I have thrown at me that there could never be an economically viable means to synthesize hydrocarbon fuels.

This is a strange conclusion to make, since you don't know how much the process costs. (Note: literally begging the question).

Comment Re:Knowing middle managers... (Score 1) 24

Why do managers have to "defend" their reports? If the team is performing, then everyone on the team should get better ratings.

It's really common in medium-to-large companies for all the managers to get together every year, and discuss who will get a raise/promotion and who will not. The number of raises available is limited, so if the manager wants to get a raise for someone on his team, he/she has to know how to fight for it.

The number of raises/promotions is limited in order to keep payroll as small as possible.

Comment Re:Russia... (Score 1) 125

Is it NATO or just Trump who is saying that?

Do a search for "security guarantee ukraine" or "coalition of the willing ukraine" and you will have your answer.

This isn't Kuwait after we trounced Iraw into dust in 1991, this is a nuclear armed nation still in an active ground war.

Russia will be trounced like Iraq, and nuclear weapons are something we will have to deal with.

The Trump strategy on this war now is...

Read a newspaper, stop saying ignorant things.

Comment Re:Isn't this admitting.... (Score 2) 125

Your point was "Russia doesn't have any real technology of its own," and "ethnic Russians had a deep hatred of science and technology." To prove that conclusion, you need to show more than "Dyatlov was an ethnic Russian."

To argue that point effectively, you'd need to pretend people like Dmitri Mendeleev and Alexander Popov didn't exist. But they do, so you're wrong.

Comment Re:Russia... (Score 1) 125

The absolutely fascinating question will come in a few years: Russia's next obvious targets are the Baltic countries. They are tiny, and geographically easy to attack. They are also full NATO members. Will Russia attack? Will NATO really defend?

NATO is planning war against Russia right now in Ukraine. They've been talking about it using "security guarantees" and "coalition of willing" as code words, but there's a high probability they will move soon.

Also, Ukraine has been putting the hurt on Russia recently, even pushing back in places. Russia seems to have culminated offensively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Performance (Score 1) 84

Previously, I worked on a more-or-less DSP project that for legacy reasons had a Python driver at the top level. We optimized the lower levels quite a bit, but it took us a long time to realize why we couldn't get rid of a ~10% overhead in the heap allocator: the Python code was creating and destroying a boatload of objects every time we broke out of the core event loop to run "application layer" logic. That project too ended up needing weak scaling rather than strong scaling to take advantage of all the cores a decade ago -- a single Python instance couldn't manage the parallelism through its multiprocessing module.

It would be interesting if you profiled that with the old Python and these new updates, see how it performs. Get some good data.

Make sure you time it though, otherwise you don't know.

Comment Performance (Score 1) 84

There is a massive upside to this as well. I'm currently writing this on the cheapest Apple Mac Mini M4. This computer comes with 10 CPU cores. That means until this change manifests in Python, the maximum performance I can get out of a single Python process is 10% of what my machine is actually capable of.

The author might be surprised how short a time your 10 core machine can actually run at full performance without overheating.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 53

by phantomfive (#65606366) Attached to: Meta Freezes AI Hiring
Myspace made billions of dollars and the product category (social networking) is still here today.

OpenAI might fail but the product (slightly less braindead chatbots) are going to be here for a long time.

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