I think Disney is nicer in other countries these days. Could still make a good trip elsewhere.

So doing the clinical trial publicly for the rest of us…

Hardware requirements? I think I can hit the memory bandwidth building from parts I have in my house. Maybe even 2x. Asking for fun not profit.

I'd love to visit your house then. You have 768-1400 GB DRAM with 6000 GB/s memory bandwidth? Nice house.

In my house I currently have almost 900 GB/S memory bandwidth in aggregate but only 132 GB total DRAM.

I’ve got a terabyte of DDR4, and a bunch of old thread rippers. They can take 256 each and 8 channel.

Yep, that's the right stuff. Now simply cross-connect all the free PCIe lanes of all thread rippers and you have a nice cluster for LLMs.

Sadly I don’t think French fries have the same effect.

Potassium is a chemical element, frying it won't change the potassium level.

you can most definitely change the levels of components in a fried food.

the oil gets 'dirty' from extended use in frying. Why is it dirty? It's not dirt, and it's not oil breakdown (in most cases).

The oil is drawing components from the food into itself.

Forget the frying for a second; most fries are parboiled or blanched -- this also leeches material away from the vegetable, this time it leaves with the water used for blanching.

A french fry is delicious, but it's different than a potato -- even if it's made from one.

I don't know about the case of potassium specifically, but in general I thought that the bioavailability of elements can vary with different types of cooking?

Why would something being an element mean that heating it as part of a food wouldn’t act as a catalyst for some chemical interaction?

There would still be potassium in there, unless it’s pulled out by the frying oil.

Elements can’t get lost in a chemical reaction. You can only change the molecule they’re part of, so it might not be processable by the human body, but the potassium isn’t going to disappear.

It's not going to dissappear, but it could dissolve into the cooking oil, leaving less in the finished product. This happens with boiling as well.

The fact that the element cannot physically vanish into thin air is not really relevant here

It is relevant because I replied to this:

> Why would something being an element mean that heating it as part of a food wouldn’t act as a catalyst for some chemical interaction?

It sounds like the person thinks that chemical reactions can make elements change/disappear, which is not the case. And I specifically mentioned the Oil removing the potassium as an option.

I guess that depends how hot you fry it.

How hot would it need to be do fission a stable isotope of Potassium?

A temperature so hot that the atoms of the potato would violently collide into each other, probably at least tens of millions of degrees and you would need something to confine the potato plasma!

> confine the potato plasma

And once that's done, The Sims has almost loaded.

Maybe it’s fusion and potassium content increases?

Or you fuse potassium atoms into something heavier.

Psilocybin has always made me not want to drink for extended periods of time after use. Always saw that as a great benefit.

We already have more % population in jail than any other country. Mostly for drugs. The social cost is much less for getting in trouble for drugs in the US, but the incarceration rate is really high.

I want to replace my 5950x, but that’s a huge TDP jump. Be interesting to see how well it down clocks.

If your typical workloads are covered by Phoronix tests, take a look at their energy consumption results. In LLVM compilation, for instance, 9950X does run at higher average power (188W vs 140W for 5950X), but because it finishes the task much faster, its energy consumption is actually lower at 58500 joules per run vs 78700 joules per run for 5950X, so it should be more efficient.

Also tons of places that interview then say they don’t have a slot.

Seems too easy to be abused.

Wow that is great. I’ve been told that was impossible by several cards and ended up reissuing.

I’m looking for an ultrasonic cleaner. Did you settle on a brand or model?

I use https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075FQJ995 and https://www.walmart.com/ip/Purple-Power-Garage-and-Automotiv...

You really need a think enclosure tho. Every maker youtuber has a thick box around their ultrasonic cleaner (Eg https://youtu.be/qT62D-sWNE4?si=v-zub1ke9uriCGvZ&t=674) and I never realized why until I heard the ear-piercing shriek of this thing.