In the register file or named registers?

And the critical matrix tiling size is often SRAM, so L3 unified cache.

Kudos for Rscript.

Score: 6 (LLM)

More like -6 =D

Congratulations on learning about distributed electronic computers. (This is worth tinkering with. This is how people actually get good at HPC.)

Pay attention to your SRAM (L3 unified cache), DRAM and swap space tilings.

[Snark] In practice: With memory access latency depending on both the square root of the memory size and the physical lengths of the wires in your cluster this sounds like a case for Adam Drake:

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...

This really depends on your data's geometry.

Just look at when SAS programmers are advised to use a merge or a format.

Even hash-join vs merge-join really depend on your data's cardinality (read: sizes), indices, etc.

EDIT: Other comments also point out that there are non-general joins that are already NP-hard to optimize. You really want all the educated guesses you can get.

This is what "chasing the next Google and missing" looks like.

Because the floor is invisible. Raising it will make a difference for many crazy values of "raising".

StackOverflow had a different take:

There was exponential growth in newcomers and with different languages and hardware becoming available. Each wave drowned out all of the previous field combined. Like colloquial "Moore's law".

As someone who has also been there (close enough):

What is your guess as to how this will be different from pocket calculators?

I'm not GP but I've been an external examiner for Danish CS students for longer than a decade. When I look at my previous gradings have matched the expected distribution nationally. There was a diviation during covid, but not compared to the national distribution which was lower all over the board. For the past year things have been very different. The trend is now that you see the same amount of good students, but you see almost no middle students. You have students who hand in great projects and a well written thesis. Who can't tell you very simple things about the work they've turned in. There is no real way to prove that these students cheat, but the study programme regulations are pretty clear when students can't answer questions about what they've written.

When I look at this january's results it's all near top mark or near bottom or failed. Almost nothing in between, and my grades match what has been reported by other examiners so far.

Separate political pressures have already forced some departments to turn a blind eye to stuff like this. Even before LLMs.

It already is different in the way teachers tend to care about. Kids learn the math that pocket calculators help you with before they have the capability and self-determination to find and use a pocket calculator. Pocket calculators aren't short circuiting any 7 year old's ability to learn basic addition.

The most frustrating part is that giving feedback on their essays or source code is a lot of work, which goes to waste if the student cheated.

Unlike calculators, making an assessment slop-proof often demands more resources to grade it, be it because the assignment needs to be more complicated, or because it needs more teaching assistants, or more time allotted for oral presentations. I also shudder at the suggestions to just come up with assignments that assume the students will use AI assistance anyway. That's how you end up with Programming 102 students that can't code their way around a for loop.

You can't be serious...

Am serious about asking for the opinion of someone affected by a problem or phenomenon.

Ya, sorry, I'm in a mood.

But logically, calculators only do math, and they have primitive inputs that aren't going to match exactly what is on the sheet for anything other than THE most simplest of equations. You can't talk to a calculator in natural language, you have to learn how to use one (kind of like a ahem programming language). I never found calculators helped me "cheat" at math, it was still hard.

FWIW, when I was studying, I trained on some decades old physics exams. Some of them were largely about calculating things by hand.

So, yeah, calculators did lead academia to change how exams had to be designed, because it solved some questions automatically.

I still think that LLMs are much worse, but I feel that the question is actually valid.

Most of the contemporary mathematical proofs from LLMs read like first-semester failings. Doesn’t really help to cheat there, either.

Interesting! Though I will hold out for the "you're prompting it wrong" comments.

I almost think at this point anyone attempting to make this absurd connection is a paid shill.

No AI it is not like calculators, looms, engines, or any other advancement.

If AI continues to improve we will need a complete reset of how human society works. That will not happen without mountains of bodies. There are 2 main ways civilization re-balances when work/worker ratio becomes untenable. War or famine. Hope you and you loved ones are on the lucky side.

The idea was to get insights into the difference that I may not have thought about.

Cunningham's Law?

Ok. Aside from the obvious things like , calculators can't be co-opted for undermining and exploiting their users? Calculators can't be primed with false information for manipulating its users? Calculators just offload some longform math, and lets be real a huge percent of people barely touched a calculator after school. AI is basically glued to 70% of the populations hand.

Even at its current level AI is diminishing the value of being someone knowledgeable.

At the core computers are a power consolidation machine. AI streamlines boring/slow aspects of consolidating that power to those that control the AI.

When did WebGPU become good enough at compute shaders? When I tried and failed at digging through the spec about a year ago it was very touch and go.

Maybe am just bad at reading specifications or finding the right web browser.

In Chromium it's been good for a good while, judges still out on when it'll be good in Firefox. Safari I have no clue about, nor whatever Microsoft calls their browser today.