fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 6 hours ago

CS and advanced statistics is what lots of applied math is anyway

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

does DSP count as maths, because there's plenty of that in radar design. or any other sensor with some double-use potential for that matter

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 10 hours ago

in this economy?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it can be bought in italy as a cleaning agent without going through entire process as for reagents purchase iirc

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

apparently ww1 era british soldiers figured out that cordite works like amyl but shittier (more specifically, nitroglycerin part) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/abaf/009c8713aadd8accbb03b2b40a93b5c3c77a.pdf

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago

Sr-90 that was involved in cases you mention is strong beta emitter, but Pu-238 isn't, it's mostly-alpha emitter, so it'll only get dangerous if somebody ingests it, but it's a piece of ceramic inside a strong case

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's not the type of plutonium that is fissile, 40% of it decayed by now, and it was formed into hard, chemically resistant ceramic in the first place

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

have you read the article

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it's hacky and wrong. or you could use different hardware, maybe from competition, because result isn't worth electricity it used

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

gpus as used for genai aren't really suitable for normal loads like aerodynamic simulations, genai uses low precision data like fp8, fp4, blackwells and such are optimized for it so hard that you can't really do anything else on this thing

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"article" is entirely too charitable, this is a substack post

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