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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    13 hours ago

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

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      710 hours 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.