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The gold Donald Trump pin is just part of our culture

Like hanging his face on banners at the DOJ while proclaiming he'd be entitled to a third term?

No, it comes after the mass rallies and deportations of opponents. This can get an awful lot worse.

What? Lol, they've been doing that the entire time. They're very open about the playbook lol.

Bow down, or get harassed, sued, investigated, fined, etc.


It's not the _cellphone_ that Stallman has an issue with lol


But if everyone acted like Stallman then solutions that have gone away such as public payphones would come back due to their requirement.

He doesn't give a crap if a random phone record of his appears in a random haystack, and that's kind of the point isn't it? It's the aggregated, crawlable stores that are the threat

There may be other issues with Stallman, but that behavior doesn't strike me as particularly inconsistent


Really? I'd think a human being would be more likely to recognize they'd crossed a boundary with another human, step back, and address the issue with some reflection?

If apologizing is more likely the response of an AI agent than a human that's either... somewhat hopeful in one sense, and supremely disappointing in another.


A human is obviously capable of a turn around. I just won't expect it to happen right after. Of course, it's not like that couldn't happen either.


> I'd think a human being would be more likely to recognize they'd crossed a boundary with another human

Please. We're autistic software engineers here, we totally don't do stuff like "recognize they'd crossed a boundary".


I guess you could have two people per presentation, one person who confirms whether to slide in the generated slide or maybe regenerate. And then of course, eventually that's just an agent


Wow, I'm staggered, thanks for sharing

I was under the impression that often times chip manufacture at the top of the lines failed to be manufactured perfectly to spec and those with say, a core that was a bit under spec or which were missing a core would be down clocked or whatever and sold as the next in line chip.

Is that not a thing anymore? Or would a chip like this maybe be so specialized that you'd use say a generation earners transistor width and thus have more certainty of a successful cast?

Or does a chip this size just naturally ebb around 900,000 cores and that's not always the exact count?

20kwh! Wow! 900,000 cores. 125 teraflops of compute. Very neat


Designing to tolerate the defects is well trodden territory. You just expect some rate of defects and have a way of disabling failing blocks.


So you shoot for 10% more cores and disable failing cores?


More or less, yes. Of course, defects are not evenly distributed, so you get a lot of chips with different grades of brokenness. Normally the more broken chips gets sold off as lower tier products. A six core CPU is probably an eight core with two broken cores.

Though in this case, it seems [1] that Cerebras just has so many small cores they can expect a fairly consistent level of broken cores and route around them

[1]: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cereb...


Well, it's more like they have 900,000 cores on a WSE and disable whatever ones that don't work.

Seriously, that's literally just what they do.


In their blog post linked in the sibling comment it says the raw number is 970k and they enable 900k (table at the end).


IIRC, a lot of design went into making it so that you can disable parts of this chip selectively.


Sounds like you should build a competitor if that's literally all it is...

I suspect there's quite a few other things you have to consider when you're managing trillions of dollars of transactions a year. Fraud, settlement times, up times, security, customer service, debt collection, interest rate calculation, reach, KYC, record keeping, legal inquiries.

But I'm sure we're just a couple grok comments away from a competitor


Don't forget stand-ins, much of this hasn't discussed that credit card networks do a lot of "stand-ins" when the issuer is unreachable (bank goes down, latency too high, etc). It's a bit unclear how things like Wero would operate when a network issue hits as Wero and EU rails won't just assume the liability for the transaction and hope it clears later as it does on Visa/Mastercard.


Very good examples. I'd add that Trust and connections are also huge in payments. Even if your technology is perfect, you need to integrate with tons of different systems to get full coverage, and the people who run those systems don't sign contacts with just anyone.


I think it's a fair point to say that many people do not feel as if they're the ones responsible even if they're direct contributors.


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