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		amelius on July 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its... I view the things you mention as incremental improvements on stuff that basically worked since the 60s.

itishappy on July 10, 2024 | [–]

If we want to get real pedantic, the Chinese invented rocket powered flight around 1000AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo_Che

dotnet00 on July 10, 2024 | [–]

They're only incremental improvements in the sense that developing LLMs is an incremental improvement on stuff that basically worked in the 60s.

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