Comment by varjag
19 days ago
LLMs are not "comparably complex" to LHC, they are perhaps 0.1% of the complexity from engineering POV. By any metric, from system design to physical infrastructure to run them.
19 days ago
LLMs are not "comparably complex" to LHC, they are perhaps 0.1% of the complexity from engineering POV. By any metric, from system design to physical infrastructure to run them.
Yeah the bar to entry for LLM is far far lower.
CERN is a scientific marvel.
They had to design a reference standard quality nanovoltmeter because HP/Agilent could not keep up with volume & cost. And it was only one among scores of side quests.
https://hackaday.com/2021/02/26/homebrew-metrology-the-cern-...
The fallout from CERN is incredible. It really shows what's possible with these kinds of multiple decade projects.
Reminds me of the Civilisation Wonders you could build.