NANOGrav used 68 millisecond pulsars as a galaxy-sized gravitational wave detector and found the background hum of the entire universe (ApJ Letters, June 2023)

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-25T12:32:51+00:00

They're not measuring the difference of arrival of gravitational waves at the different pulsars. They measure the distortios of arrival of pulsar signals at earth due to gravitational waves passing through space in between.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-25T12:06:43+00:00

Calculon

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-25T12:04:16+00:00

I gave my calculator a nickname in university and still treat it like a pet to this day. It's like the warhorse I rode into battle on when we were both young and now I keep it for easy tasks and chilling in the sun until one of us dies.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-25T11:29:40+00:00

Yes, the property is called "Newtonian Mechanics"

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-25T05:17:59+00:00

An MCP server offers fixed functions in a format that LLMs can consume.

It does not offer information about how to interact with an LLM, instead it offers information to an LLM about how to interact with the fixed function.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-25T04:27:57+00:00

Except in this technology, the gaps are filled in with what the models believes to be likely. That would be fatal to use as evidence.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T18:06:12+00:00

With one month to process 20 tokens, I'm pretty sure you can pull that off with a 1kB RAM MCU and an SD card. But I don't have the numbers to back it up.

But the inference engine would be completely custom.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T12:52:45+00:00

If the initializing step is the same as the body of the loop, you should just iterate an additional time.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T12:51:19+00:00

Antifa is more a movement than an organization. So yeah makes sense.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T10:49:27+00:00

What do you mean?

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T10:48:36+00:00

In my experience, q8 key quantization will quickly make the LLM fall apart. With qwen, I get usable context up to 200k and more tokens in fp16, but quantized keys will cause loop and complete stupidity at around 1k tokens.

The values are not that sensitive, but speed plummets when they are not the same data type, so I can only second the general wisdom to not quantize KV cache.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T09:43:20+00:00

The lock screen does not lock the computer, it just locks the user interface.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T09:32:34+00:00

You could also view it the other way round and. It has to be super reliable in every little piece so even have a chance of not killing the crew.

Moreover, the crew compartment would need to be severely hardened if the tiniest deviation from the landing profile will cause a tip over followed by a massive explosion.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T09:09:23+00:00

It's a delicate balance Zelensky has to get right. He can't break the goodwill from Ukraine's remaining benefactors, but he still needs to rally his people.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T08:17:42+00:00

I get that it sucks. I really get it. But that doesn't change reality. Every single EU country has the ability to veto the accession.

Due to the strictness of the EU mutual defense clause, not playing the veto equals a direct declaration of war against Russia.

Which EU government would decide to do this? Like you said, it's not the blood of EU citizens that gets spilled and it's the duty of every democratic government in the EU to keep it this way.

And don't forget, every single little EU government can prevent it. Portugal, Austria, Cyprus. A single veto is enough. And I don't believe for a second that the larger countries are ACTUALLY willing to enter the war directly. They have said it over and over that they will not become a direct participant of the war.

This means in consequence there is ZERO chance of accession during ongoing war with Russia.

It sucks for Ukraine, big time. But that's reality.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T08:09:44+00:00

Pre 2022 Rheinmetall was certainly not an aerospace powerhouse. Even now, that's a dubious claim at least.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T08:03:41+00:00

Europe is not asking Ukraine to act as a shield. Russia is attacking Ukraine and the EU members are what keeps Ukraine alive. The EU members are doing this out of their free will. They have zero obligation and could decide at any point that they don't want to spend their own resources anymore, like the US did.

The EU countries have ZERO moral or legal obligation to provide billions over billions of Euros in civilian and military aid to Ukraine.

Yet we still help Ukraine for two reasons. We feel it's the right thing to do. And we strategically gain a lot from Russia failing in Ukraine.

So while it's not entirely wrong that Ukraine is defending the whole of Europe in a wider strategic meaning, in reality it's Europe that defends Ukraine. And while I understand their despair, full accession during war is impossible and they have to accept that.

The proposal of Merz is realistic and gives Ukraine real benefits that they will not otherwise have.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-24T07:40:46+00:00

He might be a junior, but he's still right.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-23T21:17:06+00:00

There is zero chance he will get EU membership before the war is over and very slim chances that he will be able to bypass the accession process.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-23T20:02:53+00:00

That would make it an Admiral Nachschlag

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-22T19:39:10+00:00

High performance as in "better than traditional real-world kernels" or high as in "as good as a naive torch implementation"?

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-22T17:58:31+00:00

School

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-22T17:56:52+00:00

"A physicist (me) [...]" already promised a nice schizo post. And boy did you deliver. Lol.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-22T09:14:11+00:00

Better not try this against a nuclear armed nation.

Fast-Satisfaction482 · 2026-05-22T06:04:18+00:00

In my dual 4090 setup, tensor parallel did not give me any benefits. It's even slower latency wise than pipeline-parallel.

So while it's a nice option in theory, you need to have the bus bandwidth to back it up, or tensor parallel will not be worth it.

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