Agreed. And Trump is just one person in a long history of this problem. You can call him a symptom of a greater problem if you like. The President of the United States is not the sole leader in the nation, there are many other people in the legislature that a problematic as well. We operate a representative democracy, so I question each of my fellow Americans' decision making abilities of the last, oh, fifty years.
A great deal of the US's innovation is made by foreign researchers working in the US. The US used to be open about grant money. The US used to fund education and research. The US used to give green cards to the world's best and bright. We used to bring in the best people to our great Universities, and keep them here by having great opportunities after graduation.
If we shift to a society driven by anti-intellectualism and xenophobia, we can expect the world to pass us by and our prestige and leadership to fade away. Acting like a bully is not going to make us great again. Having brilliant people come to our universities then go home immediately after graduate school is not going to bring innovation to our nation. We can expect to continue or descent if we keep electing based on ignorance, populism, and isolationism.
GlobalFoundries has a presence in the US and is pushing out 60,000 wafers a month outside of Albany, NY with process at 14, 22 and 28 nm. (that's a lot, the largest in the world are pushing about 150,000 wafers/month)
Tower Semiconductor has US foundries, although it is not a US company, dealing with some more exotic ICs for mixed signal and high performance analog. They're frequently making special purpose ASICs for telecommunications, so there's your "high bandwidth Internet" right there.
Does the US manufacture the most ICs? No way, not by a long shot, the tiny Island nation of Taiwan has the big United States beat by an order of magnitude. But the US still operates cutting edge silicon foundries, so it's premature to say "The best the US can do is 80s/90s era ICs"
If no defects were found in the autopilot system, then why did the car crash?
If Volkswagen can cheat at environmental tests for about 8-10 years, then I'm not confident that complex autopilot systems are throughly examined. As far as I know they aren't even using formal verification to prove the correctness of the autopilot software or even its subsystems.
Oxygen - the ultimate gateway drug. Once you start inhaling oxygen in a few years you'll move onto the smell of frying bacon, stopping to smell the roses, and eventually crack.
Point is that California is too large to sum up as desert and coast. Having my cabin in the Sierras buried in 15 feet of snow and lodgepole pines so thick that I consider them to be weeds such that I have to cut back the new growth every year has me annoyed with these over simplifications.
Places like Davis and Vacaville which are in kind of an intermediate zone halfway between coast and inland and hard to categorize and some people even consider Vacaville to be part of the Bay Area, but the climate is most like Sacramento. In the summer time you can see lots of brown hills with green scrub on them, this is not the same thing as a desert. The humidity alone should tell you that. And not like LA at all, of course LA would fit in with the "coastal" categorization and not really the topic here (topic being my challenge of the proposed [false] dichotomy).
I could see about a mile down from the ridge line. The trail head started about half way up. Altitude was 7100 ft (2100 m) above sea level. I've never hiked anywhere that was more than a 3 hour drive from where I live. So I haven't been to the Himalayas, and I'm not sure I could afford to go.
Designing the architecture and logic is fraction of the engineering effort necessary to design and build a modern high end microprocessor.
Sure. I can go into those details if you'd like, I was part of a team that brought up possibly the largest SoC design to date (300mm2). It's an 8x ARMv8.2 (64-bit) SoC, and designed for high performance. I mainly participated in the very large engineering team that tested the design from the software side, to insure that SW doesn't turn up any holes in the HW verification or to test more complex interactions between multiple IPs. (it's kind of like how a pure SW project would have unit tests, but also test the fully integrated package with black box QA)
In the end it's time and money. If you want you can hire contractors to do all the work, or you can be like my company and do it entirely in-house at great expense.
There are several dozen teams designing RISC-V implementations. And many ASICs have RISC-V cores buried in them today. With a handful of designs being open. The main barrier for ordinary people and software developers to have a proper R5 workstation is for there to be a market for such a chip. Right now the market is driven by the needs of ASICs, and that's not really what people are asking for when they say an "Open" processor.
The rural half should keep Sacramento too. We'd have a rich half and a half that was like Nevada but with a significant agriculture industry (about 12% of the US's ag revenue). I'd be curious to see if the coast would still be so rich if not supported by the top agricultural state in the nation. (California is #1 at $46B, Iowa is #2 at $26B)
Habeas corpus was suspended(or rather didn't exist) for 4 million black southerns through the institution of slavery.
A clarification I'd like to make is that Lincoln's primary goal was reunification of the Union, by any means necessary. That includes: a war with the South, as well as emancipation of some slaves, all slaves or none of them. Clearly from Lincoln's own statements and letters, human rights was not something Lincoln was looking to solve on his own. It wasn't even the primary thought on his mind.
The saner thing would have been to dissolve slavery after much discourse and peaceful persuasion and acceptance on all sides. But the political climate of 19th century America has too many factions that dug themselves into a position they could not extricate themselves from without being disowned by their own faction.
I was pretty specific about Sokal's paper and what was in it. I'm not wrong in the literal sense. I also didn't state that it was about "liberals don't do science", I only stated it was a form of culture jamming. Feel free to interpret the paper to be more about the submission and review process of papers than about the claptrap that come out of some small minority of humanities academics. (I make the distinction rather than use your term liberal, because I don't think you know what that word means)
It's OK if you didn't understand the reference, but it's not necessary for you to go into personal attacks and false accusations of my political views.
Reading list for you (summary/abstract/cliffsnotes are fine, I don't expect you to invest a lot of time): The Two Cultures - C. P. Snow The Science Wars Sokal Affair - very funny and kind of depressing. Hoax paper proposed that quantum gravity has progressive political implications. And goes on to link ZF set theory and axiom of choice to feminism. Real hilarious garbage and right up there on what I consider great culture jamming. And a perhaps easier to digest is a YouTube video that asks Is Science a Social Construct? with a bias towards the answer being "No" and "those people are stupid" (my words, but that's the feel I got. I don't remember the exact insults they used)
And once you absorb a bit of The Two Cultures, you can find all sorts of nonsense from the humanities trying to make sense of science. Or at least pull it into a context they understand, even if it is not the context that science understand itself.
I think my main complaint is that individuals haven't improved their bullshit filters as quickly as technology has ramped up content distribution and flow rate of said bullshit. Not an easy problem to solve either. But I'm well in my right to demand improvements even if I don't wish to be the architect of a new society.
Maybe this explains the Fermi Paradox. Advanced civilizations eventually invent Social Media and rot from the inside before they can develop interstellar travel.
Next we can take down science as it is a social construct with a bias toward western culture and straight white men specifically. We instead can have a plurality of accepted "facts" and have equally valid viewpoints that we label as science. Instead of logical arguments, a western concept that reeks of colonialism, we can operate based on consensus building and equal time for all sides. Democratic science and culturally sensitive "facts".
Total bullshit of course, and perhaps an early signal that society is descending into madness.
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We have been on this downward slide for decades.
Agreed. And Trump is just one person in a long history of this problem. You can call him a symptom of a greater problem if you like. The President of the United States is not the sole leader in the nation, there are many other people in the legislature that a problematic as well. We operate a representative democracy, so I question each of my fellow Americans' decision making abilities of the last, oh, fifty years.
We're #1 in insurance premiums. And GDP spent per capita on healthcare. Lots of things make us so great.
A great deal of the US's innovation is made by foreign researchers working in the US. The US used to be open about grant money. The US used to fund education and research. The US used to give green cards to the world's best and bright. We used to bring in the best people to our great Universities, and keep them here by having great opportunities after graduation.
If we shift to a society driven by anti-intellectualism and xenophobia, we can expect the world to pass us by and our prestige and leadership to fade away. Acting like a bully is not going to make us great again. Having brilliant people come to our universities then go home immediately after graduate school is not going to bring innovation to our nation. We can expect to continue or descent if we keep electing based on ignorance, populism, and isolationism.
The best the US can do is 80s/90s era ICs. Modern ICs drive the high bandwidth of the modern Internet. Welcome.
Approximately 75% of Intel's semiconductor fabrication is performed in the USA.. That includes 14nm and 10nm foundries, with a 7nm foundry planned to open in the US as well.
GlobalFoundries has a presence in the US and is pushing out 60,000 wafers a month outside of Albany, NY with process at 14, 22 and 28 nm. (that's a lot, the largest in the world are pushing about 150,000 wafers/month)
Tower Semiconductor has US foundries, although it is not a US company, dealing with some more exotic ICs for mixed signal and high performance analog. They're frequently making special purpose ASICs for telecommunications, so there's your "high bandwidth Internet" right there.
Does the US manufacture the most ICs? No way, not by a long shot, the tiny Island nation of Taiwan has the big United States beat by an order of magnitude. But the US still operates cutting edge silicon foundries, so it's premature to say "The best the US can do is 80s/90s era ICs"
I read Rocannon's World last November, the first I've read of Le Guin and was very impressed. Sorry to hear that she's passed away.
If no defects were found in the autopilot system, then why did the car crash?
If Volkswagen can cheat at environmental tests for about 8-10 years, then I'm not confident that complex autopilot systems are throughly examined. As far as I know they aren't even using formal verification to prove the correctness of the autopilot software or even its subsystems.
Oxygen - the ultimate gateway drug. Once you start inhaling oxygen in a few years you'll move onto the smell of frying bacon, stopping to smell the roses, and eventually crack.
Ukraine's GDP is about $108B, which is surprising because you'd think they'd see some of that $172B of hacker funds.
My systems also don’t reboot spontaneously.
You're going to love these patches then. Life is full of new experiences. :(
Point is that California is too large to sum up as desert and coast. Having my cabin in the Sierras buried in 15 feet of snow and lodgepole pines so thick that I consider them to be weeds such that I have to cut back the new growth every year has me annoyed with these over simplifications.
Places like Davis and Vacaville which are in kind of an intermediate zone halfway between coast and inland and hard to categorize and some people even consider Vacaville to be part of the Bay Area, but the climate is most like Sacramento. In the summer time you can see lots of brown hills with green scrub on them, this is not the same thing as a desert. The humidity alone should tell you that. And not like LA at all, of course LA would fit in with the "coastal" categorization and not really the topic here (topic being my challenge of the proposed [false] dichotomy).
I could see about a mile down from the ridge line. The trail head started about half way up. Altitude was 7100 ft (2100 m) above sea level.
I've never hiked anywhere that was more than a 3 hour drive from where I live. So I haven't been to the Himalayas, and I'm not sure I could afford to go.
Designing the architecture and logic is fraction of the engineering effort necessary to design and build a modern high end microprocessor.
Sure. I can go into those details if you'd like, I was part of a team that brought up possibly the largest SoC design to date (300mm2). It's an 8x ARMv8.2 (64-bit) SoC, and designed for high performance. I mainly participated in the very large engineering team that tested the design from the software side, to insure that SW doesn't turn up any holes in the HW verification or to test more complex interactions between multiple IPs. (it's kind of like how a pure SW project would have unit tests, but also test the fully integrated package with black box QA)
In the end it's time and money. If you want you can hire contractors to do all the work, or you can be like my company and do it entirely in-house at great expense.
There are several dozen teams designing RISC-V implementations. And many ASICs have RISC-V cores buried in them today. With a handful of designs being open.
The main barrier for ordinary people and software developers to have a proper R5 workstation is for there to be a market for such a chip. Right now the market is driven by the needs of ASICs, and that's not really what people are asking for when they say an "Open" processor.
That was the elevation change for my 10 mile hike.
So you haven't seen Yosemite, Tahoe, or the central valley of Sacramento and Fresno ? Maybe you should get out a bit more.
The rural half should keep Sacramento too. We'd have a rich half and a half that was like Nevada but with a significant agriculture industry (about 12% of the US's ag revenue). I'd be curious to see if the coast would still be so rich if not supported by the top agricultural state in the nation. (California is #1 at $46B, Iowa is #2 at $26B)
Habeas corpus was suspended(or rather didn't exist) for 4 million black southerns through the institution of slavery.
A clarification I'd like to make is that Lincoln's primary goal was reunification of the Union, by any means necessary. That includes: a war with the South, as well as emancipation of some slaves, all slaves or none of them. Clearly from Lincoln's own statements and letters, human rights was not something Lincoln was looking to solve on his own. It wasn't even the primary thought on his mind.
The saner thing would have been to dissolve slavery after much discourse and peaceful persuasion and acceptance on all sides. But the political climate of 19th century America has too many factions that dug themselves into a position they could not extricate themselves from without being disowned by their own faction.
Why not empty your wallet into the ocean too. If you're so keen on giving up valuable things, like 20% of the GDP.
I was pretty specific about Sokal's paper and what was in it. I'm not wrong in the literal sense. I also didn't state that it was about "liberals don't do science", I only stated it was a form of culture jamming. Feel free to interpret the paper to be more about the submission and review process of papers than about the claptrap that come out of some small minority of humanities academics. (I make the distinction rather than use your term liberal, because I don't think you know what that word means)
It's OK if you didn't understand the reference, but it's not necessary for you to go into personal attacks and false accusations of my political views.
Reading list for you (summary/abstract/cliffsnotes are fine, I don't expect you to invest a lot of time):
The Two Cultures - C. P. Snow
The Science Wars
Sokal Affair - very funny and kind of depressing. Hoax paper proposed that quantum gravity has progressive political implications. And goes on to link ZF set theory and axiom of choice to feminism. Real hilarious garbage and right up there on what I consider great culture jamming.
And a perhaps easier to digest is a YouTube video that asks Is Science a Social Construct? with a bias towards the answer being "No" and "those people are stupid" (my words, but that's the feel I got. I don't remember the exact insults they used)
And once you absorb a bit of The Two Cultures, you can find all sorts of nonsense from the humanities trying to make sense of science. Or at least pull it into a context they understand, even if it is not the context that science understand itself.
He smelled super bad. And I didn't want to tussle with a someone who obviously had nothing left to lose.
You're free to identify Pi with as many decimal places as you find comfortable. Like opinions, all values of Pi are equally valid.
I think my main complaint is that individuals haven't improved their bullshit filters as quickly as technology has ramped up content distribution and flow rate of said bullshit. Not an easy problem to solve either. But I'm well in my right to demand improvements even if I don't wish to be the architect of a new society.
Maybe this explains the Fermi Paradox. Advanced civilizations eventually invent Social Media and rot from the inside before they can develop interstellar travel.
We now can select our facts by majority opinion.
Next we can take down science as it is a social construct with a bias toward western culture and straight white men specifically. We instead can have a plurality of accepted "facts" and have equally valid viewpoints that we label as science. Instead of logical arguments, a western concept that reeks of colonialism, we can operate based on consensus building and equal time for all sides. Democratic science and culturally sensitive "facts".
Total bullshit of course, and perhaps an early signal that society is descending into madness.