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Well, the code that was published alongside the article is written in Python and CUDA, so you're not looking at the right kind of processor to start.

My 5-year-old, consumer-grade GPU does 1.5 MHz * 2300 cores, whereas the equivalent released this year does 1.7 Mhz * 8900 cores. Granted, not the best way to measure GPU performance, but it is roughly keeping pace with Moore's law, and it's going to be a better indicator of the future than Intel CPU capabilities, especially for machine learning applications.

The interest rate gets changed every 6 months depending on the CPI. The $10k limit is per year - so if you hold on to those bonds you can potentially have $300k invested in total.

As the parent comment stated - this isn't meant to get anyone rich. This is the government providing a service that allows (working-class) individuals to keep a rainy-day fund relatively insulated from risk. If you're able to save more than 10k per year, you're not the primary target for this service.

Better than an alternative? Probably not. Worth using at all? Sure, if the data supports that conclusion. In particular, a lot of labs have been trying a wide variety of drugs to see if any have efficacy against covid. Ivermectin... just doesn't.

Here are three meta-analyses indicating that an SSRI with an expired patent (fluvoxamine) is potentially effective at reducing hospitalization rates for covid:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.17.21268008v... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35118917/

I don't know whether this is actually money laundering, but here's how it would work if it was:

1) Get some money illegitimately (scam people, do credit fraud, sell drugs, whatever). End up with some cryptocurrency.

2) You or a partner sets up an NFT for some ludicrous amount of money. An anonymous buyer (the wallet with your dirty money, or some cryptocurrency tumbler) purchases the NFT at asking price.

3) Now you have clean money. Once you pay taxes on it, you can buy regular goods and assets without much scrutiny. If law enforcement asks where your 8 figures came from, you can point to the sale of this NFT, and say that the buyer was anonymous and that this is standard practice for NFTs/cryptocurrency trades.

If you're not careful, law enforcement might be able to prove that you (or your friend) owned the illegitimate money from 1), but with proper precautions it's much much harder to track.

IIRC spoken Latin is taught differently in continental Europe, so that it sounds much closer to modern Italian. The pronouncing "v" like "w" rule is mostly an American (or at least Anglophone) thing.