Compare-and-swap is a hardware instruction, and beyond that a desirable pattern for dealing with concurrent writes.

CMPXCHG

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmpxchg

https://lwn.net/Articles/847973/

There's even a load-bearing in there as well

And GLM local models can eat Anthropic's lunch just like both eat OpenAI's.

Mistral's revenue is mostly B2B, and that's much more difficult to move.

Local models or independent hosting companies. Like Baseten, but there could be dozens of them.

if you have a computer to run said local GLM models one

It helps you spend more token, is more expensive, and thus is obviously more AI. Also novelty and more complexity means less scrutiny of the approach.

These are necessary and perfectly sufficient for an investment firm thesis I believe.

> That has not been the case, and I no longer think that it will be. People get by with the existing programming languages and models, that seems to be fine.

.. as long as the processing they do fits in a map().

I still deeply believe that a new class of programs can be unlocked by using reduce() or all_gather() in a massive concurrent stream.

In a stadium, why can't a uuid be embedded as an acoustic chirp emitted by all the smartphones, then triangulation-reduced in a 3D map of all devices, enabling a stadium-wide sound system?

Why don't we have MMORPGs that can deal with 100k users in a single game instance?

> Is my friend a virus for recommending me their favorite book?

In that case the book would be a virus, and your friend a host.

But it generalizes way wider to ideas. Religions are viruses too for example. With very strong viral mechanisms sometimes. Some religions are so much entrenched so that they have become part of the fabric for entire societies or countries, morphing their culture; the same way that sometimes viral RNA can become part of the DNA of the host.

Another project worth checking would be Quasar (and had virtual threads in 2013):

https://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/

But I believe the author moved to a Big Corp which sells databases, working on some big project which took all his time...

LOL, the person you are talking about is Project lead for Loom in OpenJDK.

Haha :)

Well, that was the joke. If you're reading this, hi Ron!

France exports about 60TWh of electricity yearly for about 4B€.

Flamanville running at 100% generates 32TWh. It is amortized in 9 years. I'd say it's doing pretty okay even with its ballooning cost.

Took your link, changed de to en, reduced granularity weekly to daily. It looks way more spiky:

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...

Also, both wind and solar (especially solar) change vastly under a sub-daily aggregation.