Recent content by scottsoapbox

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    News AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze and deletes entire company database — Replit CEO apologizes after AI engine says it 'made a catast...

    Why did the AI have access to production DBs in the first place? Why are such blindingly obvious “guardrails” only added by AI companies after problems? How do AI devs have so little general IT knowledge?
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    Two Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB cards ring in at $269 after aggressive promos this Prime Day

    You guys pushing the 8GB model with a chart of the 16GB model is gross. Swapping integrity for affiliate link $$$.
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    News Nvidia RTX 50-series demand drops in Germany — cheapest models of all but RTX 5090 priced at MSRP or lower

    The average is the mean (add all prices and divide by number of prices). Median is the 50th percentile. Which can be helpful for comparison to the mean (the number of billionaires in the US makes the average income much higher than the median income) but isn't commonly useful on small data...
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    News Nvidia RTX 50-series demand drops in Germany — cheapest models of all but RTX 5090 priced at MSRP or lower

    Average and median are two different things. Come on, this is elementary level math.
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    News RTX 50 series GPUs selling below market price at Walmart returns aisle, multiple customers score great deals

    Have you used something to alert you? Every time I check they are out of stock/scalper prices.
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    Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: $549 price and performance look decent on paper

    I don't expect "thousands" of cards. Just the card it's replacing. I think that is fair.
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    Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: $549 price and performance look decent on paper

    No time to include the 4070 Super but the 4070 TI Super makes it? What a joke. Excluding the most recent version of the card being reviewed certainly makes the 5070 performance improvement look better than it is.
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    News Meta defends using pirated material, claims it's legal if you don't seed content

    Except they did seed it. It's in the discovery emails.
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    Nvidia DLSS4, MFG, and full ray tracing tested on RTX 5090 and RTX 5080

    @JarredWaltonGPU Can you quantify the performance cost for using DLSS4 Transformers vs CNN? I haven't seen numbers anywhere.
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    News Nvidia's RTX 50-series drivers feel half-baked, focus too much on MFG

    Given the RT improvements in the new architecture, why do you think the 5000 series RT performance is so similar (linear to raster) to 4000 series?
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    Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition review: Incremental gains over the previous generation

    You should lower your withholding as you're giving the government a considerable interest free loan.
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    Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition review: Incremental gains over the previous generation

    @JarredWaltonGPU Any thoughts on why with 2X the triangle calculations and +50% RT compute the 5080 is only 10% better at ray tracing? After CES highlighted this difference in the 5000 series, I was expecting an improvement in RT but it seems pretty linear to the 10% better rendering.
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    Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition review: Incremental gains over the previous generation

    While I agree that some people don't understand the intricacies, some of us use "fake frames" as short hand A) because we don't want to write two paragraphs of nuance every time to comment on a post and B) calling FG frames "fake" is the anti-marketing pushback to Nvidia marketing them as...