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New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer (sherwood.news)
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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

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[-] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

It feels like people are celebrating this but hating on ai developments. not sure if these people are hypocritical or if that's two different groups of people.

[-] xep@fedia.io 34 points 9 months ago

Do you mean to say that this achievement had something to do with AI?

Fermat PRP testing with proofs instead of Lucas-Lehmer testing with full double checks

Looks like pure mathematics to me.

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I think they're comparing the huge amount of computing power used for both AI and finding primes.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Yes but when we use power to find new primes then we know them and can use them in cryptography, but if we use power on AI then we dilute current knowledge with fake knowledge. So it's a pretty stark contrast imo.

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can dislike corporate hype around ai and celebrate someone finding a legitimate use case for ai.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, you really can't. Same cycles are wasted either way and have zero benefits except for bragging rights. Fucking dumb.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Primes are useful for unique combinations in cryptography, for securing and encrypting connections and communications as well as storing sensitive data such as account ledgers.

AI is the opposite of useful, it creates fake information to dilute real information.

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Watch me, jabroni. I'm doing it right now.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Jabroni. So cool...

[-] irmoz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

So now you're concerned with "looking cool". Your priorities are very strange.

[-] TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

Primes are actually useful..

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Cryptography is moving away from primes. Given the theoretical danger of quantum computer over them.

Latices is what will theoretically be used in the future for cryptography.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Picking the largest known prime number feels like setting your password to password lol.

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