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Missing a zero here for a realistic valuation of the indisputable market leader in the most important interface of computing.


I feel like mathematicians should be able to do a second doctorate level degree a few years after their first PhD, that must be in a adjacent field of their own, but not the same.


The purpose of a PhD is to certify that you're able to do independent research. Many researchers retrain (or just add a research interest) in adjacent fields during their postdocs or later. At that point it's just research.


It's possible! From somewhat famous mathematicians, at least Bela Bollobas has 2 PhDs: one in discrete geometry and one in functional analysis.

Try doing that in the modern academic environment tho..


Beside the habilitation example of rando234789 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44498702), in Russia (and Ukraine) there indeed exist two "doctorate levels": кандидат наук [Candidate of Sciences] and доктор наук [Doctor of Science].


I feel like most sciences should have this, it would accelerate science a lot via the cross-pollination of ideas and techniques.

But I can imagine that drawing connections between different branches of maths would be especially powerful, yes


check out the idea of a habilitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation at least in germany, it is pretty much what you describe


ERNIE 4.5, a new family of large-scale multimodal models comprising 10 distinct variants. The model family consist of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with 47B and 3B active parameters, with the largest model having 424B total parameters, as well as a 0.3B dense model.


Does anyone know if extensive genetic editing for construction wood optimization has been tried? Some planted forests have no food chain role whatsoever (like Eucalyptus in Brazil) so this seems super safe high reward endeavor.


Genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus is apparently actually growing in Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_tree#Acce... Still ongoing as of 2024: https://www.futuragene.com/releases/futuragene-receives-appr...


OpenAI knows that everyday someone uses Gemini their ChatGPT brand dies a bit faster. Wonder what Google has in storage for I/O now in May, would be a death sentence to just steamroll with Gemini-3.


> Wonder what Google has in storage for I/O now in May

"Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43906018


LMAO, like one hour after. And guess what, it is a coding upgrade .


Google IO in may? Guess we'll be getting a huge OpenAI release May 19th then.

Edit: Oh of course, it's the open weights model they've been teasing.


They launched a new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro today.

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2-5-pro-io-impro...


So soon after Gemini 2.5?


Open AI needed to spend $3B pivoting away from bigdata based AI. But instead they went for the most shorted sighted move possible of snapping up the "trendiest" company nobody has ever heard outside the Ycombinator echo chamber.

Typical VI-fallacy BS. If LLMs were actually good they would replace IDEs completely not be integrated.


There's an in between case, where LLMs are useful and give coders a (say) 20% speedup, and everyone has to use them. They don't have to be perfect to be a big industry!


Sharing here because it was really hard to dig this from issues on GitHub instead of official documentation...



Open source but my impression is that this contains verilog generated by another program?



Thank you, that's very helpful.


Could you point at some examples? It's not unusual for things to be code-generated and it doesn't necessarily impact the license.


All the RTL basically. It’s in a directory called gen_rtl (generated RTL?) and has remarkably few comments for such a complex code base.

Also although technically it's open source if it's generated verilog then isn't that a lot less useful than the code that was used to generate the rtl?


Nvidia doesn't have a monopoly on GEMM and GEMV. There will be dozens of hardware vendors. It is TSMC that should be the most valuable company in the world.


By that logic TSMC is not the only one capable of 5nm. ASML should be the most valuable company in the world?


Certainly one of the most valuable, but I would still say TSMC as there are lots of other steps in the production besides photolithography (etching, ion implantation, vapor deposition, packing, ...).


AtlasIntel did. I met Thiago (CTO) in Rio and Boston while he was doing his math PhD at Harvard, he is nice person and a fine mathematician: their methodology uses online polling on social media with micro-targeting. I only assume competitors are not leveraging social media as well as they are. Roman, the CEO, said they will donate all their raw data from the final polls to Roper Center at Cornell for academic research[1].

[1] https://x.com/andrei__roman/status/1854051400273244534


atlas intel has got so many elections correctly that i really don't understand why other pollsters are not copying their methodologies.

even nate silver called then the most accurate pollster during the 2020 race.



engraçado, eu acabei de ver esse post no reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fivethirtyeight/comments/1gkq7k7/at...


Isn't a more advanced/production version of this what the combo of couchdb and pouchdb do since several years ago?


Yeah this kind of thing has certainly been tried before, I feel like SQLite WASM plus WAL might be an interesting twist on the idea.


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