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		atomic128 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction... See discussion of "capacity factor" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858892 It's the same as when we talk about the efficiency of a GEMM kernel on a particular piece of hardware. As efficiency approaches 100% the kernel is saturating the hardware's capacity to perform multiply/add.

howenterprisey 8 months ago [–]

The term "capacity factor" should generally always be used for that concept, because "efficiency" has its own, different, meaning for power plants.

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