Cool! How do you actually implement “Reverse-mode automatic differentiation with a tape-based computational graph” in rust?
Readit NewsSorry if this is obvious to Java experts, but much as parallel GC is fine for batch workloads, is there a case for explicit GC control for web workloads? For example a single request to a web server will create a bunch of objects, but then when it completes 200ms later they can all be destroyed, so why even run GC during the request thread execution?
Most web request cases where you care about performance probably have multiple parallel web requests, so there’s no clean separation possible?
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If they told you, it would be picked up in a future model's training run.
Don't the models typically train on their input too? I.e. submitting the question also carries a risk/chance of it getting picked up?
I guess they get such a large input of queries that they can only realistically check and therefore use a small fraction? Though maybe they've come up with some clever trick to make use of it anyway?
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I like the idea of an adjunct energy storage, and I can see why a salt tank, kept hot (like really hot. these things can be 500°C or more (even the cold tank is just below 300°C) and the "salt" is sodium or calcium nitrate type stuff) does the trick because heat exchanger back to working liquid for the turbine, thats well understood.
But I also would have thought a battery stack would perform exactly the same function as the salt tank: long duration storage of energy, available to supplement the nuclear power when required.
I believe there's some other reason this specific coupling of a reactor and a heat store makes sense which I didn't get from this article: Maybe it provides resiliency for thermal systems management overall?
If there’s an issue with the core then the salt tank can act as a heat sink in a way a battery can’t?
The boiling / pressure water reactors all have requirements on active cooling being maintained in emergencies - I’m not familiar with this design nor to what extent the salt is intended to fulfill such a function, but it’s plausible that it could buffer things for idk 1h-3d maybe?
The holy grail is the “walk away safe” reactor, I would hope / presume all the novel / modern ones fulfill that?
I agree in principle, but I disagree that it should be designed and mandated by a private gatekeeper
Isn't that how most web standards got their start? One of the interested parties pushed something, then things evolved through the standards process?
(And then it can of course get derailed, but that's a separate story)
Sodium leaks can be nasty, but they can be dealt with.
I love the promise of nuclear energy, and I understand that every single engineering decision has tradeoffs, but these tradeoffs just seem so bad? Are there really no better options?