Me wondering why I haven't been able to deploy cloud instances with the A100 for an actual useful purpose for the past month
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Already on the H100 bud
Babe wake up, new prime number just dropped.
To save you a click: 2^136,279,841^-1
Formatting is off.
2^136,279,841 - 1
2 to the power of something, then subtract one to make it an odd number.
I’m using Voyager and yours doesn’t work, but the person you responded to looks fine. Weird!
I'm pretty sure that's the telephone number of a flat in Islington where I once went to a party...
Yeah...they called but I told them it wasn't you.
Hope you hit him in his two heads
What Lemmy client are you using? Looks OK on the web and Jerboa.
Using Eternity and formatting was off for me. Second reply comment was good though
Sync for Lemmy.
Here's the source of their comment.
I also use sync but the formatting and a bunch of other stuff is unfortunately pretty broken.
I don't think we will ever get a fix either ;(
Sync still uses Reddit's markdown rules, Lemmy is a little different.
Well this was 8 months ago.
https://lemmy.world/post/12509081
Still outstanding on Github
https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/477
I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.
I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.
I guess so.
I was sorta waiting for Sync to become more fully featured before committing to an ad-free purchase, but I guess I should start looking for other clients again.
I use Jerboa out of habit because it's the first one I downloaded that more or less worked that also had the coloured bars down the side of the comments so I could keep track of what level of the comment thread Im looking at.
Heard good things about Thunder though.
Does it also have coloured usernames?
Back when I was still on Reddit I used Joey which, if a user commented more than once in a thread, their username would get the colour of the first "level" on subsequent replies. Any other username, including first comment, would be white/black (depending on night mode).
- (red) | User1 > Comment
- (orange) | User2 > reply
- (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
- (green) | (orange) User2 > another reply
- (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
- (orange) | User2 > reply
I've missed that feature on all alternative Reddit, and now Lemmy, clients I've tried.
No, never seen anything like that. Best we've got is the user avatars I guess.
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I don't know if this is a common feature of large primes, but the digits in the exponent (136,279,841) themselves represent a prime number.
that does happen to be one of the defining characteristics of mersenne primes.
And searching for mersenne primes happens to be the easiest known way to find extremely large prime numbers (via the Special Number Field Sieve I believe)
🤯
this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’
The first time since the 90's, before that all computer assisted Mercel primes found were found by super computers.
No first time ever. This isn’t a supercomputer, it’s a distributed cloud network that they’re referring to as a supercomputer because it has a lot of power. It’s not a supercomputer in any other sense of the word, as it’s set up on cloud providers around the globe rather than in one location in the same room.
Legit question: how is that different conceptually to the random individuals all running Prime95? Could that not also be referred to as a cloud supercomputer?
I don't know why Nvidia is mentioned at all, except the hardware. That's cool that this person found the number, but Nvidia didn't do anything except employ them once upon a time and make a product that does a thing. It's not justified to celebrate the maker of a stove when a soup kitchen feeds everyone.
This is a win for Luke and GIMPS in general, and I'm happy for them.
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Is it 3?
I bet it's 3.
Almost certainly a multiple of 2 minus one
Half-Life 2136279841-1 confirmed.
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