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New comment by slashdave in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

slashdave — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:23:56 +0000

Um... cofolding?

New comment by slashdave in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

slashdave — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:39:09 +0000

M4's GPU does not support 64 float. So, yeah. No hardware support, so what are you expecting? The fact that it comes close is pretty impressive.

New comment by slashdave in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:08:20 +0000

I mean... who has control over OpenAI's web page? No self-respecting PR firm would do something like this. And Counsel must be hopping mad.

New comment by slashdave in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:06:44 +0000

Please don't assume the entire AI industry behaves like OpenAI

New comment by slashdave in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:05:40 +0000

Why do think they would want to be vindictive? The point is to prevent leaks, leaving lapses is exactly counter to that goal.

New comment by slashdave in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:02:49 +0000

It's not hard if you are honest

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:00:05 +0000

Those that claim their opponents are in denial are most likely in denial themselves

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:56:22 +0000

Since when does realism become hope? (It's the other way around)

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:55:52 +0000

Shh! Don't upset the hype train

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:16:20 +0000

No, we do this kind of thing regularly. Optimizations often depend on the model that is using them. Namely, fusion techniques.

New comment by slashdave in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

slashdave — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:52:14 +0000

Indeed. Compilers do have to make compromises, and it is not possible from code alone to understand the tradeoffs.

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:50:28 +0000

This SV mentality that technology can solve all problems is rather tiring, really.

New comment by slashdave in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

slashdave — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:36:22 +0000

Have your agent take care of it

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:06:26 +0000

> We only know how to do it by means of considerable sacrifice

Little sacrifice actually

> Solving the issue would be doing it without sacrifice

So... you are expecting magic?

LLMs cannot create resources out of thin air.

New comment by slashdave in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:53:18 +0000

Yeah, a corner case (streaming) and good developers working very hard.

The original SSE (SIMD) extensions were actually written with this use case in mind. When they first came out, the compilers were awful. They've since caught up.

New comment by slashdave in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:49:44 +0000

Except for some odd corner cases, it is very hard for a good engineer to beat compilers these days (they are very good now). Not to mention, tuning depends on the platform, and often the exact model of chip.

New comment by slashdave in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:46:13 +0000

Show it the disassembler...

New comment by slashdave in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:45:09 +0000

I'm... confused. Don't we use macro assemblers anymore?

New comment by slashdave in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:43:33 +0000

Is AWS listening?

New comment by slashdave in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

slashdave — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:39:55 +0000

Seriously?

We already know how to solve all of these issues. What we lack is collective political will.