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New comment by fuzzbazz in "TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology"

fuzzbazz — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:34:57 +0000

If the marketing naming is to be believed, in 1.4nm vs 4nm you'd be able to fit ~twice the transistors in your chip. That's twice the cores, twice the cache... That usually makes it faster.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Texas has banned talking on college campuses at night. Seriously"

fuzzbazz — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:54:41 +0000

> on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m

The intent may be also seen as pro-education: "they're free to protest elsewhere without annoying other students"

New comment by fuzzbazz in "XAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site"

fuzzbazz — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:21:44 +0000

Can't verify from the low quality photo in the article.

This [1] press release from the Southern Environmental Law Center hints to a possible reason - they may be migrating from small to bigger turbines:

> Aerial images obtained by SELC revealed 35 turbines at the site in March (...) while the company has removed some smaller-sized turbines, it has recently installed three larger turbines

[1] https://www.selc.org/press-release/elon-musks-xai-threatened...

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Air India crash points to systemic problems at Boeing that CEO Ortberg must fix"

fuzzbazz — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:48:22 +0000

It turns out 248.5 days is ~2^31 hundredths of a second.

Was this the uptime of the Air India plane? Or it's just speculation?

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book"

fuzzbazz — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:11:42 +0000

From a quick web search I can find that there are book review sites that allow users to enter and rate verbatim "quotes" from books. This one [1] contains ~2000 [2] portions of a sentence, a paragraph or several paragraphs of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Could it be plausible that an LLM had ingested parts of the book via scrapping web pages like this and not the full copyrighted book and get results similar to those of the linked study?

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4640799-harry-potter-a...

[2] ~30 portions x 68 pages

New comment by fuzzbazz in "I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]"

fuzzbazz — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:43:39 +0000

> won't hold up in court

Does that even matter? because at 4:50 on the video you can clearly read:

    "You agree to give up your right to go to court to assert or defend your rights under these Terms"

... in the "binding arbitration and no class action" terms that you need to Agree to.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Why DeepSeek had to be open source"

fuzzbazz — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:34:54 +0000

There is no way to decompile an LLM's weights and obtain a somewhat meaningful, reproducible source, like with a program binary as you say. In fact, if we were to compare both in this way that would make a program binary more "open source".

New comment by fuzzbazz in "OpenAI reveals why ChatGPT won't say "David Mayer""

fuzzbazz — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:16:26 +0000

These names show a "right to forget" notice when you google them. Crashing or completely bailing out when they're about to be generated by the LLM sure looks like a glitch, or somebody forgot that multiple people can have the same name. Anyways, these are now being Streissand efected due to this behavior, the opposite of the intended result of the legislation.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status"

fuzzbazz — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:17:54 +0000

Alternative title: Nobody with an email ending in .ru left in the MANTAINERS file.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Twitch blocks creating new accounts from Israeli IP's"

fuzzbazz — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:39:23 +0000

We'll know for sure the next time twitch's source code leaks

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

fuzzbazz — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:18:34 +0000

How can you even have democracy without freedom of speech?

How can you freely choose who to vote without free exchange of information?

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs"

fuzzbazz — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:56:30 +0000

Please can we rollback everything to scenario #1 already? I'm starting to think that #2 and #3 are actively counter-productive and the pendulum is going to swing back too hard.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders"

fuzzbazz — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:22:28 +0000

65173 rulings in 230 days by 11 people. That's 25.76 rulings per person per day if we ignore holidays and weekends.

They can't possibly read the cases, is this a kangaroo court?

New comment by fuzzbazz in "The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X Review: Flagship Zen 5 Soars and Stalls"

fuzzbazz — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:39:12 +0000

I mean, it works properly, but a bit slower. The driver just detects if the kind of application currently running (i.e. a game) needs to be confined to only one CCD.

The core to core latency between the two CCDs seems to have doubled from the 7xxx series according to some latency benchmarks I saw yesterday.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "WHO Declares Global Emergency over New Mpox Outbreak"

fuzzbazz — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:12:28 +0000

According to Wikipedia the virus is still called "monkeypox virus" and the disease "mpox disease". One reason for the change may have been to have different names for these different things.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Bipartisan consensus in favor of renewable power is ending"

fuzzbazz — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:40:49 +0000

Nuclear fusion is renewable.

Nuclear fission with breeder reactors is renewable.

Nuclear fission with conventional reactors and U-235 fuel is not renewable.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Want to pay cash? That'll cost you extra"

fuzzbazz — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:48:35 +0000

The butcher, the baker and the mechanic pay 35% income tax each. The original $100 turned into -$5 at the end.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "Tesla Owners Get Only 64% of EPA Range After Just Three Years: Study"

fuzzbazz — Sun, 26 May 2024 00:26:24 +0000

> The basic EPA testing protocol gets it wrong for all EVs.

> It doesn't factor in temperature changes or driving above 60 miles per hour

Well, there's the problem, drag increases with the square of speed and temperature affects battery capacity. Maybe they tested with the AC turned off too.

New comment by fuzzbazz in "El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour"

fuzzbazz — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:03:42 +0000

Cool, but it could be better if some of the paintings didn't have so much light reflected from the roof, like in room 12. Maybe the camera should have been higher?

New comment by fuzzbazz in "A data-driven case for why TikTok needs to be banned before the 2024 election"

fuzzbazz — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:39:16 +0000

In the democratic ones it's just a ban on campaign ads and opinion polls for the 24-48h before an election and on the election day.