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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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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 127 points 23 hours ago

Wake up babe, new prime number just dropped.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

Holy hell

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 22 hours ago

Is it 3?

I bet it's 3.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 20 hours ago

My money's on 4.

[-] RelativeArea0@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

Can I go with 6? I kinda like 6

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[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 22 hours ago

He must've been very anxious in order to count up to that...

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Size does matter, after all?

[-] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours 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 32 points 21 hours 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 19 hours ago

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

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours 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.

[-] TheOneCurly@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago

Primes are actually useful..

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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.

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[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago

Yeah. Stuff like this, work in medical treatments and new drugs, I'm on board.

Using it to replace human workers or steal their hard work to train them?

Fuck you sideways with a cactus, you corporate fucks.

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