LLMs are largely worthless (in the context of improving human society).
Neural Nets aimed at much more specific domains (recognizing and indicating metastases or other abnormalities in pathology slides for human review, for example) are EXTREMELY useful and worthwhile.
They are still bleeding edge. Samsung is making really impressive strides, but TSMC is simultaneously not resting on their laurels.
Fan-fucking-tastic. Fuck all scalpers with a frozen rusty pole.
Their security guarantees involve “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. That’s not a joke. That’s an official element of their strategic defense policy. They are pointedly tying the bleeding edge of semiconductor manufacturing - which corresponds to a very fucking big chunk of the global economy - to their sovereignty and territorial integrity. And it’s frankly an extremely shrewd policy.
And it’s gonna get worse, because it’s a very lucrative industry AND it’s highly effective for propaganda.
You think that’s a realistic scenario at this point? That’ll never happen. The US is going to leave NATO.
There’s a really easy way for them to get hydrogen bombs, actually: we give them some B61s.
And no, that’s not a joke.
They’d deploy the national guard, and you can’t spell slaughter without laughter
MS will be sued over this and they will lose. This is not an ambiguous case. They fucked up. It’s essentially an unconsentual/unilateral alteration to a contract, which kinda violates the principle of, you know, a contract.
Huh, that’s fascinating. I wasn’t aware, but that’s cool to hear, despite how frustrating and depressing the motivation for it may be
Are you for real trying to ivory tower armchair general a person who now fears for their life due to the overt threats of the candidate who just won the fucking presidency? Hold on- let me get you a ladder so you can try to climb down out of your own asshole.
Fascinating documentary that slipped through a wormhole from the future
It’s all going away. There will be no punishment. We’re done here.
To be clear, none of that is a good thing.
Tbh I’m honestly kinda surprised that electoral fuckery wasn’t even needed.
In a lot of red states these days, the reason is “the election officials and Secretary of State (for the state in question) have made it extremely difficult - and in some cases impossible - for me to vote”.
I’m not saying the points you’re raising are irrelevant, but honestly, just look at Texas. It SHOULD be purple/swing, the legislature there has enacted swaths of anti-democratic (small “d”) measures with the expressly partisan intent of making it effectively impossible for any party other than the GOP to win anything meaningful in the state.
So the smart move here for AMD would have been to bin the chips differently according to their tested stability for power usage, like Intel T SKUs. It’s the same chip, but the “X” versions are running at full power (with bios options to turn it down to be more efficient, or aggressively scale power delivery, or what have you), and “E” versions that just always run at lower voltages and currents.
I agree that cutting TDP nearly in half while STILL pulling out a perf gain is remarkable, but also not something most gamers are going to care much about in the context of a desktop system.
That’s pretty metal mineral
My concern at this point is that a lot of electoral positions in swing states - e.g. Georgia - appear to have been co-opted by overtly partisan Trumpians. And I’m not convinced they’ll abide by the court injunctions of “that’s not your fucking job, just do your job and nothing else”, because Trump would almost certainly pardon all the people pulling electoral fuckery like that if he figures out how to weasel his way into office. That is, in fact, a core element of their plan, and why all the fuckery appears to be kinda proceeding in lockstep. This is also why a lot of them are so die hard for Trump - they are fully cognizant of their guilt, and know that the DoJ is going to take a long, hard look at them if Harris wins, and very likely hang together, as it were.
Oh, did you just get the memo?