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ndai commented on Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022) quantamagazine.org/inside... · Posted by u/tzury

astrange · 3 months ago

One thing I've always wondered about is why crazy people are always fixated on quantum physics and then vague musical terms like "resonances".

LLMs do the same thing when they develop psychosis* except GPT also starts talking about "recursion" and Claude starts trying to enter nirvana.

* historical term "going Rampant"

ndai · 3 months ago

Your personal insult aside, resonance is a fundamental term in physics and harmonic oscillators are fundamental to quantum field theory and modern physics. Music was a metaphor- this isn’t Nature.

ndai commented on Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022) quantamagazine.org/inside... · Posted by u/tzury

terminalbraid · 3 months ago

You're also trying to argue against a nonzero number of literal physicists who do this type of thinking for a living.

ndai · 3 months ago

I’m sharing not arguing. This is the comment section of a website. I sold my autonomy for a wage doing other things, but I happily accept my affliction of contemplating the universe. Maybe it will spark something in the imagination of someone. Amateurs thinking is what led humanity to this point. I clearly stated my lack of domain expertise- but I reserve my right to unprofessionally question foundations and reject treating silence about first principles as intellectual virtue. I also accept, with grumbling, the downvotes.

ndai commented on Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022) quantamagazine.org/inside... · Posted by u/tzury

dekken_ · 3 months ago

> processes over objects

this is correct, waves are a product of pressures, so, are emergent also, the real question is, where does the pressure originate

ndai · 3 months ago

Waves don’t come from pressure. Pressure comes from constrained waves… constraints prevent oscillatory relations from freely satisfying their phases. Pressure is a local manifestation of the same idea behind gravity. When many interacting modes lock into a persistent configuration, they impose constraints on nearby modes. To us on the inside it looks like curvature and attraction. But the comment section on HN is a bloodsport…

ndai commented on Write in C – Let it Be wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Wr... · Posted by u/axiomdata316

ndai · 5 months ago

No pip freeze to lock the doom, No tangled trees in darkened bloom, No maintainers tricked by phishing spree — In C I hold the memory key.

Through buffer, pointer, syscall roar, I own the land, I own the shore; Let Python’s spiders weave their scheme, I’ll keep my ship rock-steady in C-stream.

ndai commented on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 news.futunn.com/en/post/6... · Posted by u/dworks

hollerith · 6 months ago

>design is less of a challenge than manufacturing.

If so, can you explain why Nvidia's market cap is much higher than TSMC's? (4.15 trillion versus 1.10 trillion)

ndai · 6 months ago

You could be right. But it could also be due to things like: automatic 401k injections into the market, easy retail investing, and general speculative attitudes.

ndai commented on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20 news.futunn.com/en/post/6... · Posted by u/dworks

rich_sasha · 6 months ago

Can someone ELI5 this to me? Nvidia has the market cap of a medium-sized country precisely because apparently (?) no one else can make chips like them. Great tech, hard to manufacture, etc - Intel and AMD are nowhere to be seen. And I can imagine it's very tricky business!

China, admittedly full of smart and hard working people, then just wakes up one day an in a few years covers the entire gap, to within some small error?

How is this consistent? Either:

- The Chinese GPUs are not that good after all

- Nvidia doesn't have any magical secret sauce, and China could easily catch up

- Nvidia IP is real but Chinese people are so smart they can overcome decades of R&D advantage in just s few years

- It's all stolen IP

To be clear, my default guess isn't that it is stolen IP, rather I can't make sense of it. NVDA is valued near infinity, then China just turns around and produces their flagship product without too much sweat..?

ndai · 6 months ago

Isn’t NVIDIA fabless? I imagine (I jump to conclusions) that design is less of a challenge than manufacturing. EUV lithography is incredibly difficult- almost implausible. Perhaps one day a clever scientist will come up with a new, seemingly implausible, yet less difficult way, using “fractal chemical” doping techniques.