Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.
https://youtu.be/Y28JQzS6TlE
@dgerard @JFranek
His nostril yeast is the secret sauce.
Pivot to bio-computing
Trad wives exchanging starter cultures for artisinal CPU wafers
@dgerard @JFranek
āIf youāre having yield problems,
I feel bad for ya, sonā
Everything about this screams vaporware.
Extropic have been burning their runway, this is 100% an investor pitch. āWe have a thing! please give us more money? we swear weāre still Nazisā
Whatās the elevator pitch for Extropic again? Thereās no human description in the video and Iām not turning sound on for that.
What if quantum but magically more achievable at nearly current technology levels. Instead of qbits they have pbits (probabilistic bits, apparently) and this is supposed to help you fit more compute in the same data center.
Also they like to use the word thermodynamic a lot to describe the (proposed) hardware.
āwhat if computation was more wrong but on the other hand was faster and used less powerā?
If you get under all the hype slop, itās an analogue computer using quantum to go faster [citation needed].
This can allegedly be used to do AI computations (so matrix math?) with lower energy.
At least they donāt claim to be doing qubits.