The set of real numbers is continuous and uncountably infinite. Any attempt to fit it into a discrete finite set necessarily requires severe tradeoffs. Different tradeoffs are desirable for different applications.
Almost All real numbers are non-Computable, so what we're most commonly reaching for is only the rationals, but the thing is DEC64 can't represent lots of those, it seems like a very niche type rather than, as the author asserts, the only numeric type you need.
It's not a real issue, but it's truthy enough to generate real opposition to datacenter buildout and catalyze AI hate. So definitionally avoiding it from the get-go might end up being worth it.
It really depends where they get the water. If they're pumping an aquifer fry and doing evaporative cooling they could be just boiling an entire areas water source. If they could figure out how to use salt water it'd be ideal.
Thanks, fixed. I intended the 5090 indeed but haven't had a coffee.
Anyway, even the 145W of a 5060 are... an ugly challenge to meet. The 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro for example can happily guzzle 90W when you max out the i9 CPU and the dGPU and gets uncomfortably warm after a few minutes once the aluminium case goes into thermal equilibrium.
Add in even just a 60W CPU to match with a 5060 and you're looking at double that heat to be dissipated!
Weren't those MacBooks relatively thin – the same as the OG retinas of 2012-2013?
A friend of mine has an Asus with some Nvidia GPU (3070? not sure), a 5th gen ryzen 9 and a 200+W power brick.
That thing is twice as thick as my 2013 MBP and the case is plastic. It also has more vents than my mbp, each of which has more surface area than all those on the mbp combined. I also suspect the fans are bigger.
He actually bought it to play games on it and never complained about performance dropping after a while. So I suppose it manages to move the 200 W of heat somehow.
Which is where we come to my original post saying "without making people uncomfortable".
I'd guess that under full load that Asus thing (probably ROG series) sounds louder than your vacuum. Just had a look though, even their most powerful G835 [2] that you can get in a variant for ALMOST 9000€ [3](it's 8.400, but wanted to reference the meme) comes with a 5090 "laptop" GPU variant - that's barely half as powerful as the "desktop" 5090 [4].
The charger options are also ... nuts. 330 watts [1] - they're pushing 16 amps through that connector. A tiny amount of dirt, rust or other contamination and you got yourself a nice fire.
Between Kissinger, Obama, the Myanmarese CIA asset, etc., it's basically the Nobel Crimes Against Humanity prize at this point. I'm surprised they didn't give it to the Orange Thing.
>What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid viewpoint steelmanning any positives they can think of.
Revealed preferences. Keep giving the people exactly what they want (not what they claim to want), in unlimited quantities, until the message is received or we're all dead.
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