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If actors in the EU are serious (I have my doubts, as so far I see nothing more than riding recent anti-Trump sentiment in a hope to win popularity contest) they cannot rely on volunteer effort and gluing bunch of unrelated FOSS projects.

It is not enough to fund a new distro. EU needs its own OS (may be based on Linux, sure) and it needs to fully control it. Otherwise it will end up like most other FOSS projects, full of personal drama and technical bike-shedding.


You may not, but experience shows that most people are just fine sharing the most personal stuff not only with cloud services, but with hole world through anti-social media.

> while some c++ exotic physics simulation developer will find it lacking

Can confirm, but I always read I am holding it wrong.


You're not. People are just using a hammer to build a shed and telling you it's surely good to dig a hole too.

I've consistently tried to apply LLMs to physics problems and they're utterly useless. They'll just confidently lie, or blatantly plagiarise source materials

The issue is once you hit niche physics simulations there simply isn't any training data available, so the limitations of them become incredibly apparent. Its also problematic because a field itself will contain lots of wrong information (its research!), and AI picks all this up uncritically

I thought I'd give chatgpt a quick spin on my favourite question, which is "is the adm formalism strictly equivalent to general relativity", to which it consistently gives the wrong answer

>Ah, now you’re hitting the subtlety head-on—that’s exactly where the “strict equivalence” claim needs nuance. Let’s unpack this carefully.

I don't know how anyone can stand these tools. Its just an obnoxious glazing machine that tells me I'm a genius consistently

Gemini gives a little more of a robust answer, but fails catastrophically for the question "is the bssn formalism numerically stable", where just about the entire answer is completely wrong from top to bottom. It certainly looks convincing. Its got all the right terminology. It manages to piece together the right set of words, but all the informational content is wrong, which isn't exactly a small problem

I struggle to see how these tools are of any use


That's why there are companies specialising in AI for physics, like Emmi AI (now part of Mistral). If BMW and Airbus go on stage to talk about how they're using it for their physics simulations, it's probably at least decent.

Usage isn't really a good indicator of quality currently in the AI space, the issue is that there's inherently no way that an AI physics sim can be as good as a real physics simulation, which makes it a very low value prospect

Usage by reputable engineering organisations with strict compliance and external testing validation (most notably Airbus, they have to prove to EASA that their tests are real and representative) is a decent indicator that there is something there.

Do we have real case studies, or just a bunch of declarations? "Using AI for our physics simulations" is as vague as it can be.

It's all proprietary of course, but we have press releases talking about it: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T045812...

There is absolutely no data, review, evidence, or any indication whatsoever of how this is being used, or what the efficacy of it is

The current trend of every industry is to jump onto anything, call it AI, and pretend its being used everywhere. There's absolutely good reason to be sceptical of this


> confidently lie, or blatantly plagiarise

Good enough for enterprise work tho. (Also the secret sauce to "holding LLMs right".)


The amount of people that still believe in the free market fantasy is even more alarming.

There was never a free market, and there will never be one, as markets as such are by necessity created by central authorities.


> this is a win for everyone

Everyone that belongs to 0.1% of richest people in the society. All others get to win increased crime rates, salary stagnation and other benefits.


> without performance penalty, bloatware and spyware?

And then you install multiple Electron apps.


> Too bad the software is awful. Thankfully the Linux Surface community is pretty strong.

And how Linux fix the software problem?


Running Linux on Surface works. It's not perfect, but it solves the problem. Windows is gone from my Surface Pro X since roughly 2 months after buying it.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface


Reminder that Greeks were right and representative democracy is not democracy at all, but another form of oligarchy.

> Julia code can be as performant as C++ code, but Julia code may be even more elegant than C++

But not at the same time


depends on the workload. many are elegant and fast. some require a bit of clunkiness to wring out the last drops of performance

> Did they teach history where you're from? Humans were always divided into classes of people ever since human species existed, they were never equal and they never will be equal, this is a human trait, not something billionaires created, they were just the best at rising to the top within this human inequality system that has always existed.

If anyone could use a history or anthropology lesson, it is you.

What you stated is simply not true, and we have plenty of ethnographical and archeological evidence for that.

You simply repeat ideology of the current times.

Last but not least, your parent speaks of dividing whole countries into classes. I don't know what billionaires have to do with it.


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Don't be pathetic. You stated:

> Humans were always divided into classes of people ever since human species existed, they were never equal and they never will be equal, this is a human trait

This is not true. Nothing to do with MRIs or Apollo missions.


>Don't be pathetic.

Don't break HN rules insulting people. I'm not your dad to talk to me like that.

>This is not true.

Why isn't it true?

>Nothing to do with MRIs or Apollo missions.

How is developing MRI machines and going to the moon not the utmost examples of peak human intelligence, achievements and meritocracy? If that isn't, what is?


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