It was Elden Ring with a reskin. Fuck that Shit.

LOL. Chinese Americans are trash. Copycats and spies.

This is a good time to remind everyone that when government fucks with markets 40 years ago, they make it hell on everyone for the next 200 years.

I could readily point you to quite a few biologists studying the brain who use LLMs extensively as comparison points in their research (and spiking ANNs are the gold standard model in the field, though they're not as computationally efficient), but thankfully we have TheMiddleRoad on Slashdot to tell us what's what.

And for the last time, either read the actual paper or shut up.

Spinning power does that quite well.

Nuclear is not "spinning power" because it runs at basically 100% all the time except when down for maintenance, as capital costs are so high but operating costs are low. It can't "spin up" because it's either already up, or down for maintenance. If you want to have it down for most of the time, then you have to multiply its already insanely high costs severalfold.

. As for dispatchable power for peaking, renewables are quite capable of doing that,

No. For god's fucking sake. You CANNOT DISPATCH WIND AND SOLAR. They're on when they're on, and off when they're off. When they're on, you never want to have them disconnected, because they're giving you free power. And you don't have shortages when they're on. You have shortages when they're off. And you cannot make them go on, because you can't make the sun start shining or the wind start blowing.

The shortages that require peaking are when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. You cannot use wind and solar for that. For god's fucking sake.

It's not even that the Chinese aren't capable engineers. They are.

Nah. They're barely competent as copycats. It's why the only way China "competes" on the international market is corporate espionage and IP theft.

The last time the CCP paid a shit-ton of money to market a game as "first class" it was that giant steaming turd Black Myth Wukong. And then the CCP troll they sent to "get awards" had a hissy fit when it rightly didn't win any.

Maybe Russia's gamers should tell their shit-eating KGB Pedophile President to get his dirty shitass troops out of the Sovereign Nation of Ukraine then. Fucking terrorist warmongering shitass country with an ego problem.

I wasn't talking about the intro video, I was talking about the paper that article is about. Can you literally not read past seeing a video on your screen?

Peaking is, by definition, dispatchable power, which can be created precisely when you need it to fillin gaps, and shut off when you don't. The gaps under discussion of which created by the lack of available wind and solar power at those times.

Stop calling nondispatchable highly-variable power "peaking". It's just plain wrong, and it just makes you look profoundly ignorant on the topic you're insisting on discussing.

...or they could use more efficient lasers.

Whereas NIF’s 1990s-era technology is only 0.5% efficient, Campbell says that modern lasers can get as high as 20%.

-Physicsworld

** Can compliment

However, you can run the nuke as base load for grid stability and peak with renewables.

Renwables (wind and solar) are literally the opposite of peaking. They are entirely nondispatchable.

And I'll repeat: renewables do not need base load. Renewables provide incredibly cheap, but unstable, power. They need peaking. Which is not nuclear.

Yeah. Just trying explaining to France that their nuclear energy production shouldn't realistically exist.

Yeah, I know they don't like to hear that nuclear has suffered from a negative learning curve (the more we've learned, the more expensive it's gotten to build nuclear plants, not vice versa) and that it was subsidized by low capital costs through EDF, and that because of the long lead times with nuclear and the need for scale, they got their forecasts wrong and overbuilt, leading to a temporary electricity that encouraged inefficiency in the French energy system that has since come back to bite them once the energy glut subsided.

The low-cost financing trick is a favourite of nuclear people, treating it as if it's some irrelevant side note, when - for a primarily capital cost project with long lead times - it is an immense subsidy. The fact that nuclear also doesn't have to pay its own catastrophic liability coverage is just the icing on the cake.

Don't get me wrong... I actually *like* nuclear power, conceptually. I really wish it *were* economical. I hope that some day it might be. But I'm not going to pretend that it is now just because I want it to be.

Which is why nukes are for base load, not peaking.

Renewables don't need "base load", they need peaking.