New prime just dropped. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a group of volunteers who search for prime numbers that are (2 to the...

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

  • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, fuck those assholes that pursue science for the benefit of humanity! I do not see why anyone should be allowed to be creative if I do not see the benefit for me in particular.

    • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      We need to decide democratically what science is, with everyone getting a fair vote, so wasteful science like this can finally be stopped.

        • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 years 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.