Imagine not being able to understand that new software optimization techniques are continuously being discovered. 🤦

Indeed, most people don’t realize what a monumental challenge it is to reindustrialize an economy.

It appears you’ve missed the point here, which is that it turns out you can use older GPUs in creative ways to get a lot more out of them than people realized. Having latest chips isn’t the bottleneck people thought it was.

Good news is that US has now outsourced so many essential industries to China that they might not be physically capable of going to war.

Batteries are increasingly used for large scale storage now, especially with renewables becoming more prevalent.

That’s not that long to build out this kind of infrastructure basically from scratch.

There’s a whole range of 9000S, 9020, and 9100 of chips now, with 9100 being 6nm. It’s clear and steady progress on display here. Meanwhile, there’s really nowhere to go past 1nm chips using silicon substrate. So, it’s not like western foundries have no path forward now.

There are two paths towards improving performance going forward. First is to start using new substrates the way China is doing with carbon nanotube based chips. This requires phenomenal level of investment that can only really be done at state level. Another path is to improve chip designs the way Apple did with M series. And these aren’t mutually exclusive obviously as better chip designs will benefit from faster substrates as well.

It’s weird to claim there’s no actual change when the change is very visible. China is now making their own chips domestically that are only a generation or two behind the bleeding edge. Also, why does it matter whether they’re subsidizing chip production or not?

The visible progress that you’re asking for will happen when all the pieces of the puzzle come together. China has to develop performant RISCV based chip designs that’s what XiangShan project is doing. They also need to physically build the EUV machines, which is what this article is talking about. Then they will start pumping out chips that are competitive with bleeding edge TSMC chips.

You can look at how other industries like rail, electric vehicles, clean energy, and so on developed in China previously. It’s always the same pattern where there’s a few years of build up, and then there’s an explosion of this tech on a scale nobody has seen before.

the agile Torment Nexus

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Chinese scientists developed a chip using carbon nanotubes and a ternary logic system for faster, more energy-efficient computing than traditional silicon chips. CNTs, made from rolled-up sheets of graphene, offer superior electrical characteristics and ultra-thin structure, making them a promising material for next-generation semiconductors. Other advantages include higher carrier mobility, lower power consumption, and the potential for even smaller transistor sizes.

I regularly use Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, and Lemmy.

You can’t solve what’s fundamentally a social problem with technology alone. Technology is simply a piece of the bigger picture where it can provide forums like this where genuine organic communication can happen without it being mediated by corporate interests. However, the shift in the Overton window is ultimately driven by the material conditions. As the standard of living continues to deteriorate in the west, more and more people end up falling out of liberal mainstream. We see this process happening at an ever accelerating rate now.

I fully expect bluesky to go the way of twitter eventually. Even though the protocol is somewhat decentralized, the reality is that there’s already one main instance and that’s where majority of users will end up. It’s still an oligarch owned and profit driven platform at its core.

I do think the situation with the fediverse is fundamentally better because the profit motive isn’t the driving factor. And yes, we do have big liberal bubbles here too, but that’s just an artifact of the fact that liberalism is still the dominant ideology in the west. It’s not surprising that they will be the majority on any western social platform.

I find Mastodon is avoiding this problem at least so far. Pretty much all the instances are run by volunteer efforts and they’re community funded, avoiding the problem with the profit motive. The federation aspect of Mastodon also makes it commercially unappealing because content doesn’t propagate as easily and this makes it difficult for people to build up huge followings the way they do on centralized platforms.

My view is that Mastodon or Lemmy approach works pretty well in practice. You end up with fairly small hubs of thousands of users that can create their own social norms, and then these hubs loosely federate with each other.

turns out that racism has a price

Indeed, and if it gets there then I imagine it will start outpacing proprietary architectures because the whole world will be contributing to it.

It’s true for me. I generally don’t read through the think part. I make the query, do something else, and then come back to see what the actual output it. Overall, I find it gives me way better answers than I got with the version of R1 I was able to get running locally. Turns out the settings do matter though.

Ultimately what matters is whether it gets the correct answer or not. It’s interesting that yours wasn’t able to do the strawberry test while mine did it with very short thinking cycle.

Yeah mine does not do this, here are the toggles I have on mine which might make a difference

<think>

Alright, let me figure out which number is bigger between 9.21 and 9.1999999999. Hmm, okay. Both numbers start with 9. so the whole number part is the same. The difference must be in the decimal parts.

First, I’ll write them down to compare digit by digit after the decimal point:

• 9.21 is the same as 9.2100000000 if we extend it to match the same number of decimal places.

• 9.1999999999 has more 9s in its decimal places.

Starting from the first decimal digit:

• The tenths place: both have 2 and 1 respectively. Wait, no—hold on. Let me check again.

Wait a second, maybe I messed up. Let’s parse each number correctly:

For 9.21:

• Tenths place (first after decimal): 2
• Hundredths place: 1 The rest are zeros beyond that if we need more places.

For 9.1999999999:

• Tenths place: 1
• Then, the hundredths is 9, followed by all those 9s up to the tenth decimal digit?

Wait, actually let me clarify the positions properly. Let’s write both numbers with enough decimals:

9.21 can be written as 9.2100000000

9.1999999999 is already given.

Comparing digit by digit after the decimal point:

• Tenths place: 2 vs. 1 → Here, 9.21 has a higher tenths digit (2 > 1).

Since the first differing digit at the tenths place is already larger for 9.21, there’s no need to look further into the other decimal places because even if all subsequent digits in 9.199… are 9s, they can’t overcome the difference in the tenths place. For example:

The first number has 0.2 in tenths vs the second having only 0.1. The rest of the decimals add up to less than 0.01 for the second number (since it’s 0.09 + 0.009 etc., which sums to 0.09 repeating, approaching but never reaching 0.1).

Therefore, even with all those trailing 9s in 9.199…, its value is still less than 9.2 (since it’s like 9.1 plus almost 0.1 but not quite), so 9.21 is larger. </think>

The number 9.21 is larger than 9.1999999999.

Here’s why:

1. Compare the tenths place (first digit after the decimal):
   • 9.21 has a 2 in the tenths place.
   • 9.1999999999 has a 1 in the tenths place.

Since 2 > 1, 9.21 is already larger at this stage. Even though 9.1999999999 continues with many 9s afterward, they cannot overcome the difference caused by having only 1 in the tenths place compared to the 2 in 9.21.

Final Answer:

\boxed{9.21}