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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)
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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Great satire. This is how you do it, folks.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Now I want to try too: The ultimate form of democracy is when people are voting with their wallets. Then they can have the freedom to express both what they want and how much they want it. That is why profitable = good and freedom, actually.