"Think in math, write in code" is the possibly worst programming paradigm for most tasks. Math notations, conventions and concepts usually operate under the principles of minimum description lenght. Good programming actively fights that in favor of extensibility, readability, and generally caters to human nature, not maximum density of notation.

If you want to put this to test, try formulating a React component with autocomplete as a "math problem". Good luck.

(I studied maths, if anyone is questioning where my beliefs come from, that's because I actually used to think in maths while programming for a long time.)

"suggested masts are better as integral parts of ships rather than bolt on after thoughts."

It seems quite mad that we even need to debate this. Wind is free power and we have at least 2000 years of engineering to draw on how to use it.

Any propulsion unit needs to be effectively attached to a ship. Screws are attached longitudinally, low down and push. Sails are a bit more tricksy. A triangular sail mounted along the long axis will generally work best because it can handle more wind angles but a square sail mounted across the long axis will provide more power on a "reach" to a "run" (the wind is mostly from behind, so pushing).

The cutting edge of sailing ships that carried stuff are the tea clippers. Think "Cutty Sark" which is now a visitor attraction in London, Greenwich. Note the stay sails - the triangular sails at the front. Then note the three masts. Each mast has several main sails that are huge rectangles for "reaches" and additional extensions. There are even more triangular infill sails above the main sails.

It's quite hard to explain how wind and sails work but you need to understand that a sailing ship can sail "into the wind". Those triangles are better at it than those rectangles but those rectangles can get more power by being bigger. Even better, you can use the front triangular sails (stay sails) to moderate the wind to feed the other sails with less turbulent wind.

Wind is free power and it is so well understood. How on earth is this news?

Could someone explain every term in this subthread in a very simple way to someone who basically only knows "transformers are a neural network architecture that use something called 'attention' to consider the entire input the whole time or something like that", and who does not understand what "quadratic" even means in a time complexity or mathematical sense beyond that "quad" has something to do with the number four.

I am aware I could Google it all or ask an LLM, but I'm still interested in a good human explanation.

I also read in the XKCD thing that it might be up to about 50° so it's probably a bit uncomfortable for most algae type things.

I bet there's some good chance of getting wacky extremophiles though!

Is it worse than "Rich CEO expressing certainly over his hunch"

This has nothing to do with superintelligence, it's just the people that were working on the paper prior to the re-org happened to publish after the name change.

Though it is notable that contrary to many (on HN and Twitter) that Meta would stop publishing papers and be like other AI labs (e.g. OpenAI). They're continued their rapid pace of releasing papers AND open source models.

We provide the source code and weights along with a Docker environment to facilitate reproducing the experimental results. The original paper’s EXPERIMENTS section mentions the hardware configuration (8× RTX 2080 Ti).