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  Just to put a bit of context on those, OpenAI said they used 180,000 GPUs for training their GPT-5 model. As I understand it, each GPU has ~16,000 cores, and each of those cores does a couple billion operations per second. With that cluster, 2^65 operations takes a couple seconds, 2^90 takes many years, and 2^119 is off in “the sun has grown to surround the Earth” territory. The NSA is concerned with protecting their stuff against organizations with hundreds of billions of dollars, and a hundred...

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  I made paneer, following a recipe I've used dozens of times before. The resulting cheese was perhaps softer than usual, and even after squeezing it and dripping for hours, the slow drip of whey continued, unabated. I dared to try a bit. The texture was just as expected, with the familiar squeak as the cheese broke apart upon chewing, and just a hint of extra liquid. The flavor was also fine. I could have added more salt, but that's a problem I've run into before, and I usually cook...