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That sounds bad, here's a first-hand description of an encounter with this in english
It seems quite plausible that one of the winning entries came out of GPT-4/Bing, but if it makes you feel better, it's only a finalist, not the winner.
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Apparently it's something about avoiding the 'law of perpetuities'?
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In a follow-up he shows what happens when an API call fails.
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Any time someone worries about how much lithium we would need to mine to make all cars battery powered, remind them of these photos of coal mining. We mined 100k metric tons of lithium in 2021, and that's projected to grow 10x over the next decade. On the other hand, we mined 7 billion metric tons of coal in 2019.
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• Thread of interesting takeaways from an article in Wired about TSMC. TL;DR: they're pretty intense about continuing to make progress on lithography at TSMC.