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Hi,

Notice Linus Torvalds still smiling into cameras as if
is still doing code review and ticket triage. 80% of
linux comes from payed developers from within big linux
stakeholders (like Intel, Meta, Google, IBM, and Red Hat).

So what happend to the "The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond" It framed open source as this magical,
self-organizing bazaar where "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow" and a decentralized swarm of

hackers would naturally polish any piece of software
to perfection. Now we have AI Swarms that automatically
pocke into software, even exchanging messages through
what ever channels they may find!

The early open-source pioneersrCothe ones writing
raw code in the 90s and early 2000s under the
banner of the "bazaar"rCoweren't building a utopia;
they were acting as the primordial soup. They pumped

the blood plasma, built the infrastructure cells,
and laid down the raw organic matter that allowed
the modern digital ecosystem to bootstrap itself
into a massive, self-sustaining organism.

And now, the nature of the beast has completely
changed. The "new cells" aren't romantic hackers
collaborating for the love of the game; they are
automated linters, security scanners, corporate

compliance bots, CI/CD pipelines, and AI triage
swarms acting as an aggressive white-blood-cell
network. They exist solely to hunt down vermin,
patch vulnerabilities, and suppress the infinite

chaos of low-quality human input. The basar isn't
dead . But it got a health police that takes samples,
and cancels out poison food. You can't just throw
toxic, unmaintained code-soup over the counter

anymore without the automated health police
quarantine-tagging it in five seconds.

LoL

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Hurry Rossy Boy, the blue bus is waiting.
There is a quite a hyperbole from here:

Tesla S1070 in 2008
700 Watts , 1 Terra Flop
SOLVE TOMORROWrCOS PROBLEMS TODAY https://www.azken.com/download/Tesla_DS_S1070_EU.pdf

To here:

Blackwell GPU in 2026
575 Watts, 104.8 Terra Flops ( RTX 5090 )
From Volta To Blackwell https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/nvidia-tensor-core-evolution-from-volta-to-blackwell

But somehow the S1070 had already Massively-
Parallel, Many-Core Architecture, and forms
of MIMD, since it had 960 / 240 = 4 cores.

960 scalar processor cores (240 per GPU).
But possibly more resticted inside work
groups, than later NVIDIA Volta ff

architecture with independent thread state.

Bye

Disclaimer: The above is only a very rough
RTX 5090 spec. Its doesn't say what value
format and what vector/matrics ops were

used. Also energy consumption may vary.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

You are still chewing on SIMD. LoL

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

Then the idea is that any of those can be found and matched in
one "run", i.e. a stall-less, branch-less, call-less list of less than >> -a> a few or less than a few dozens or less than a few hundreds
instructions, the results "findings" in data and corresponding
"matchings" of expressions, that runs in less than one microsecond.

You cannot make the mental translation that if you have:

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

So, the context then is for register state and stack contents, that
the indicators of the above as "positive presence" then is to make
for that the adjustments to the offsets and extents and the shifts
is according to those, otherwise no-ops. Then the idea is that a

As independent logical thread state, that automatically MIMD follosw?

Whats the problem to solve then?

Bye

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On 9/21/2026 5:33 PM, Mild Shock wrote:

Hi,

Dear Mild Shock,

Notice Linus Torvalds still smiling into cameras as if
is still doing code review and ticket triage. 80% of
linux comes from payed developers from within big linux
stakeholders (like Intel, Meta, Google, IBM, and Red Hat).

I notice you're writing in stanzas of four lines instead of
three. Did you change your internal background music?

So what happend to the "The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond" It framed open source as this magical,
self-organizing bazaar where "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow" and a decentralized swarm of

I presume this is meant to be a question, but the sentence
ends with a period below. What indeed happened to the "bazaar"
and did it ever exist in the first place? I was once taken in
by Eric's ballad, but now I suspect this /cathedral and the ba-
zaar/ never really existed in the first place. More on that in
a completely different post.

hackers would naturally polish any piece of software
to perfection. Now we have AI Swarms that automatically
pocke into software, even exchanging messages through
what ever channels they may find!

The problem with the /hackers/ is that they have no sense of
a /finished product/, and keep repeating their own code over
and over, and over again, as if they're living the Groundhog
Day. For a good doze of reality, see all the current propa-
ganda about rewriting all of C in Rust.

The early open-source pioneersrCothe ones writing
raw code in the 90s and early 2000s under the
banner of the "bazaar"rCoweren't building a utopia;
they were acting as the primordial soup. They pumped

I've heard the theory proposed [1] that the open source code of the 90s
came largely from people who had already written the same code in a
commercial setting. They weren't inventing new things nor doing things
they struggled with.

All of these coders [2] are now gone, and have been replaced by people
who largely don't know what they are doing. That's independent off all
the /vibe coders/ out there today.

the blood plasma, built the infrastructure cells,
and laid down the raw organic matter that allowed
the modern digital ecosystem to bootstrap itself
into a massive, self-sustaining organism.

There are also serious flaws with this /digital ecosystem/, but more
about that some other time.

And now, the nature of the beast has completely
changed. The "new cells" aren't romantic hackers
collaborating for the love of the game; they are
automated linters, security scanners, corporate

You forget malicious adversaries intentionally poisoning the overall
organism. This happens for a variety of reasons, but the largest threat
I want to discuss is /organized crime/.

compliance bots, CI/CD pipelines, and AI triage
swarms acting as an aggressive white-blood-cell
network. They exist solely to hunt down vermin,
patch vulnerabilities, and suppress the infinite

I believe most of these efforts are causing more harm than good, no
matter how well intentioned.

chaos of low-quality human input. The basar isn't
dead . But it got a health police that takes samples,
and cancels out poison food. You can't just throw
toxic, unmaintained code-soup over the counter

Well, if the bazaar never existed, it's not there either today.

anymore without the automated health police
quarantine-tagging it in five seconds.

You finished your last stanza in two lines, so, this is your finale?
What does it sound like?


[1] As in, this is not my theory, but I believe it has a lot of ground
in reality.

[2] Well, most of them, anyway.
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:43:46 +0800
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> gabbled:

On 9/21/2026 5:33 PM, Mild Shock wrote:

Hi,

Dear Mild Shock,

Notice Linus Torvalds still smiling into cameras as if
is still doing code review and ticket triage. 80% of
linux comes from payed developers from within big linux
stakeholders (like Intel, Meta, Google, IBM, and Red Hat).

I notice you're writing in stanzas of four lines instead of
three. Did you change your internal background music?

He changed his LLM. Its clearly AI slop.

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boltar@caprica.universe spake the secret code
<118rjcb$3sbg$1@dont-email.me> thusly:

He changed his LLM. Its clearly AI slop.

AIs spell better than he does.
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Hi,

Lets define P(tao) as the probability that
Terrence Tao goes bonkers. The poor guy can
even not distinguish open source, open weights

and local AI. A total mess of Idiocracy:

Terence Tao: SAIRrCOs Open Math Model Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRb6NIki2w

Leonhard Euler was far from a similar Pussy, when
he instrumentalized a Swarm of natural intelligence,
in his later years, already blind, still producing

tons of publications. While modern mathematicians
are shocked when a Swarm of artificial intelligence
produces some output.

Trick Question: The NavierrCoStokes equations generalize
the Euler equations which only consider inviscid flow.
Why is the new NavierrCoStokes counter example to

boundedness, not found in nature? Ask you friendly
AI chat robot, there are like 10 reasons why it
might not exist in nature.

Bye

Leonhard Euler (1707rCo1783)
Schweizer Mathematiker und Universalgelehrter https://library.ethz.ch/sammlungen-und-archive/kurzportraets/leonhard-euler-1707-1783.html

Picture here

J. Ackeret: Untersuchung einer nach den EulerrCOschen
Vorschl|ngen (1754) gebauten Wasserturbine, in:
Schweizerischen Bauzeitung, Band 123 (1944), Nr.1, S. 3.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Notice Linus Torvalds still smiling into cameras as if
is still doing code review and ticket triage. 80% of
linux comes from payed developers from within big linux
stakeholders (like Intel, Meta, Google, IBM, and Red Hat).

So what happend to the "The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond" It framed open source as this magical,
self-organizing bazaar where "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow" and a decentralized swarm of

hackers would naturally polish any piece of software
to perfection. Now we have AI Swarms that automatically
pocke into software, even exchanging messages through
what ever channels they may find!

The early open-source pioneersrCothe ones writing
raw code in the 90s and early 2000s under the
banner of the "bazaar"rCoweren't building a utopia;
they were acting as the primordial soup. They pumped

the blood plasma, built the infrastructure cells,
and laid down the raw organic matter that allowed
the modern digital ecosystem to bootstrap itself
into a massive, self-sustaining organism.

And now, the nature of the beast has completely
changed. The "new cells" aren't romantic hackers
collaborating for the love of the game; they are
automated linters, security scanners, corporate

compliance bots, CI/CD pipelines, and AI triage
swarms acting as an aggressive white-blood-cell
network. They exist solely to hunt down vermin,
patch vulnerabilities, and suppress the infinite

chaos of low-quality human input. The basar isn't
dead . But it got a health police that takes samples,
and cancels out poison food. You can't just throw
toxic, unmaintained code-soup over the counter

anymore without the automated health police
quarantine-tagging it in five seconds.

LoL

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Hurry Rossy Boy, the blue bus is waiting.
There is a quite a hyperbole from here:

Tesla S1070 in 2008
700 Watts , 1 Terra Flop
SOLVE TOMORROWrCOS PROBLEMS TODAY
https://www.azken.com/download/Tesla_DS_S1070_EU.pdf

To here:

Blackwell GPU in 2026
575 Watts, 104.8 Terra Flops ( RTX 5090 )
-aFrom Volta To Blackwell
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/nvidia-tensor-core-evolution-from-volta-to-blackwell


But somehow the S1070 had already Massively-
Parallel, Many-Core Architecture, and forms
of MIMD, since it had 960 / 240 = 4 cores.

960 scalar processor cores (240 per GPU).
But possibly more resticted inside work
groups, than later NVIDIA Volta ff

architecture with independent thread state.

Bye

Disclaimer: The above is only a very rough
RTX 5090 spec. Its doesn't say what value
format and what vector/matrics ops were

used. Also energy consumption may vary.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

You are still chewing on SIMD. LoL

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

Then the idea is that any of those can be found and matched in
one "run", i.e. a stall-less, branch-less, call-less list of less

than

a few or less than a few dozens or less than a few hundreds
instructions, the results "findings" in data and corresponding
"matchings" of expressions, that runs in less than one microsecond.

You cannot make the mental translation that if you have:

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

So, the context then is for register state and stack contents, that
the indicators of the above as "positive presence" then is to make
for that the adjustments to the offsets and extents and the shifts
is according to those, otherwise no-ops. Then the idea is that a

As independent logical thread state, that automatically MIMD follosw?

Whats the problem to solve then?

Bye

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Hi,

The Terrence Tao paper here is full of "right
and natural". Its a total deflationary philosophy
mess, that makes absolutely no sense:

"In a human-written proof, the parts of the argument
that the author found difficult typically retain
some natural friction: " [..] An excessively AI-polished
proof may sand away both the rCLartificialrCY friction
(typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the
rCLnaturalrCY friction, leaving a text that is easy to
read and hard to learn from."

Finally, even publication is not the last stage.
Key results should ultimately become part of the
definitive textbooks and reference material of
their subject, in the form in which they are taught
to the next generation of students. This process of
canonicalization rCo in which a result is restated in
its natural generality, given its right proof rather
than its first proof, connected to its neighbors, and
absorbed into the standard toolkit rCo
is the slowest stage of all.

Mathematics in the age of AI
https://arxiv.org/html/2608.16753v1

While tools like macsyma are already almost 80 years
old. Now the picture is current AI creates an oracle,
that can speak evil, creating a third grade artificiality

over the already existing artificiality of math.

The irony of all, the Navier Stokes counter example,
is even not a proof. But a model. Not everything
in math is "proof theoretically" explainable,

some things invoke "model theory". What a moron!

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Lets define P(tao) as the probability that
Terrence Tao goes bonkers. The poor guy can
even not distinguish open source, open weights

and local AI. A total mess of Idiocracy:

Terence Tao: SAIRrCOs Open Math Model Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRb6NIki2w

Leonhard Euler was far from a similar Pussy, when
he instrumentalized a Swarm of natural intelligence,
in his later years, already blind, still producing

tons of publications. While modern mathematicians
are shocked when a Swarm of artificial intelligence
produces some output.

Trick Question: The NavierrCoStokes equations generalize
the Euler equations which only consider inviscid flow.
Why is the new NavierrCoStokes counter example to

boundedness, not found in nature? Ask you friendly
AI chat robot, there are like 10 reasons why it
might not exist in nature.

Bye

Leonhard Euler (1707rCo1783)
Schweizer Mathematiker und Universalgelehrter https://library.ethz.ch/sammlungen-und-archive/kurzportraets/leonhard-euler-1707-1783.html

Picture here

J. Ackeret: Untersuchung einer nach den EulerrCOschen
Vorschl|ngen (1754) gebauten Wasserturbine, in:
Schweizerischen Bauzeitung, Band 123 (1944), Nr.1, S. 3.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Notice Linus Torvalds still smiling into cameras as if
is still doing code review and ticket triage. 80% of
linux comes from payed developers from within big linux
stakeholders (like Intel, Meta, Google, IBM, and Red Hat).

So what happend to the "The Cathedral and the Bazaar
by Eric S. Raymond" It framed open source as this magical,
self-organizing bazaar where "given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow" and a decentralized swarm of

hackers would naturally polish any piece of software
to perfection. Now we have AI Swarms that automatically
pocke into software, even exchanging messages through
what ever channels they may find!

The early open-source pioneersrCothe ones writing
raw code in the 90s and early 2000s under the
banner of the "bazaar"rCoweren't building a utopia;
they were acting as the primordial soup. They pumped

the blood plasma, built the infrastructure cells,
and laid down the raw organic matter that allowed
the modern digital ecosystem to bootstrap itself
into a massive, self-sustaining organism.

And now, the nature of the beast has completely
changed. The "new cells" aren't romantic hackers
collaborating for the love of the game; they are
automated linters, security scanners, corporate

compliance bots, CI/CD pipelines, and AI triage
swarms acting as an aggressive white-blood-cell
network. They exist solely to hunt down vermin,
patch vulnerabilities, and suppress the infinite

chaos of low-quality human input. The basar isn't
dead . But it got a health police that takes samples,
and cancels out poison food. You can't just throw
toxic, unmaintained code-soup over the counter

anymore without the automated health police
quarantine-tagging it in five seconds.

LoL

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Hurry Rossy Boy, the blue bus is waiting.
There is a quite a hyperbole from here:

Tesla S1070 in 2008
700 Watts , 1 Terra Flop
SOLVE TOMORROWrCOS PROBLEMS TODAY
https://www.azken.com/download/Tesla_DS_S1070_EU.pdf

To here:

Blackwell GPU in 2026
575 Watts, 104.8 Terra Flops ( RTX 5090 )
-aFrom Volta To Blackwell
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/nvidia-tensor-core-evolution-from-volta-to-blackwell


But somehow the S1070 had already Massively-
Parallel, Many-Core Architecture, and forms
of MIMD, since it had 960 / 240 = 4 cores.

960 scalar processor cores (240 per GPU).
But possibly more resticted inside work
groups, than later NVIDIA Volta ff

architecture with independent thread state.

Bye

Disclaimer: The above is only a very rough
RTX 5090 spec. Its doesn't say what value
format and what vector/matrics ops were

used. Also energy consumption may vary.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

You are still chewing on SIMD. LoL

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

Then the idea is that any of those can be found and matched in
one "run", i.e. a stall-less, branch-less, call-less list of less >>>> than
a few or less than a few dozens or less than a few hundreds
instructions, the results "findings" in data and corresponding
"matchings" of expressions, that runs in less than one microsecond. >>>>

You cannot make the mental translation that if you have:

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

So, the context then is for register state and stack contents, that
the indicators of the above as "positive presence" then is to make
for that the adjustments to the offsets and extents and the shifts
is according to those, otherwise no-ops. Then the idea is that a

As independent logical thread state, that automatically MIMD follosw?

Whats the problem to solve then?

Bye

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