hyuijk
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Comment · 4 years ago
If the customers stored .gz/.zip/... files you could transparently transcompress them to .zstd and back (with an added test of course)
Comment · 4 years ago
But who says the computer running the simulation must be exact?
We are using a lot of low precision computations in graphics, neural networks, ....
Pi also can't be calculated exactly to infinite precision, yet that doesn't stop us to compute circles and so on.
Comment · 4 years ago
My understanding is that one big reason so much money was invested in this lab is because the research has direct applications to nuclear weapon design. It's a dual use lab so to speak. The process they are studying is very similar to what's happening in the core of a thermonuclear bomb.
> 1978: This report reviews aspects of the military applications of the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) program at Sandia Laboratories
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6412035
> Today, research on inertial confinement fusion—the other leading approach—remains largely under the control of US national weapons labs. The military focus has had profound impacts on the development of inertial fusion energy.
https://thebulletin.org/2013/07/nuclear-weapons-the-death-of...