fauxneme
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language & mind-ish things (mostly fun sometimes sin), interested in what science is and does, pretend stoic but for-real epicurean (but for-real-real hedonist), we're in this together, la do la si, &c &c
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tryna be drunk (comme Baudelaire)
i'm sorry this orb has angry sci-fi pimples and it distresses me
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
i'm sorry this orb has angry sci-fi pimples and it distresses me
hmm...assume (generously?):
- approx 100 trillion synapses
- each spike --> a FLOP at a synapse
- approx 100Hz mean neural firing rate (surely high for avg) average)
you're looking at like 10 petaflops which is well inside the FLOPS ranges of today's big clusters, no?
- approx 100 trillion synapses
- each spike --> a FLOP at a synapse
- approx 100Hz mean neural firing rate (surely high for avg) average)
you're looking at like 10 petaflops which is well inside the FLOPS ranges of today's big clusters, no?
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
hmm...assume (generously?):
- approx 100 trillion synapses
- each spike --> a FLOP at a synapse
- approx 100Hz mean neural firing rate (surely high for avg) average)
you're looking at like 10 petaflops which is well inside the FLOPS ranges of today's big clusters, no?
- approx 100 trillion synapses
- each spike --> a FLOP at a synapse
- approx 100Hz mean neural firing rate (surely high for avg) average)
you're looking at like 10 petaflops which is well inside the FLOPS ranges of today's big clusters, no?
[citat^H^H^H^H^Henvelope needed]
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
[citat^H^H^H^H^Henvelope needed]
aww man how did I not know about this! looks cool as hell
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
aww man how did I not know about this! looks cool as hell
I...think they forgot to mention something about that video
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I...think they forgot to mention something about that video
I think maybe asserting both
"performative means [sincere performance of X]"
and
"performative has a *common* derogatory connotation of [insincere performance of X]"
in the same post maybe highlights (and hopefully legitimizes) the issue some readers are having with OP's post
"performative means [sincere performance of X]"
and
"performative has a *common* derogatory connotation of [insincere performance of X]"
in the same post maybe highlights (and hopefully legitimizes) the issue some readers are having with OP's post
October 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I think maybe asserting both
"performative means [sincere performance of X]"
and
"performative has a *common* derogatory connotation of [insincere performance of X]"
in the same post maybe highlights (and hopefully legitimizes) the issue some readers are having with OP's post
"performative means [sincere performance of X]"
and
"performative has a *common* derogatory connotation of [insincere performance of X]"
in the same post maybe highlights (and hopefully legitimizes) the issue some readers are having with OP's post