I bet they license a lot more than an ISA (which may actually be free to replicate, not sure) - ARM is an IP company and have modular hardware designs which Apple likely uses to a great extent, tweaking it here and there and adding or removing modules.
I think you're stretching your argument a fair bit (how? a random point out of many: you don't consider that by the time the 3-4x battery density becomes available _and_ economical for commercial flights, maybe solar coating will develop in the meantime and add negligible cost and weight, while their efficiency may go up in the decades of timeframe we talk about) just in order to shove in a personal insult at a random person, who didn't claim to have a clue to begin with. So, whatever personal plight you're experiencing now, I wish you come out of it stronger and wiser. I opt not to call you clueless for either or all of 1. thinking that a 2-3x battery density will happen in a couple of years, 2. you assuming that solar specs and costs will stay standstill over decades; 3. ignoring that commercial flights in some decades may in some part describe the type of traffic you talk about, incl. unmanned planes (commercial =/= passenger)
The fuel could probably be coaxed into the combustion chamber by a combination of pressure differentials (carburetor-style, or working with the much higher intake airspeed) and gravity. There are motorcycles and even some cars that don't need a fuel pump.
A 3-4 times multiple doesn't sound that bad, considering density achievements so far. Maybe it can be made better with solar cells all over the top of the fuselage and wings, solar input is predictable for most of the flight duration. A large fraction of commercial airline CO2 emission is incurred by short-haul flights. Of course, by the time it's feasible and economical, we all drive affordable electric cars with a range of over 1000km.
CPU and memory clock rates used to be identical, then CPU speeds grew way more rapidly than memory speeds, leading to the misnomer: memory multiplier. So the upside of what you note is that we're slowly moving away from ridiculously high multipliers. Yes, the end game would be processing integrated with memory.
> However, there's already one display that's better than anything on offer, and that's your own vision.
Since when is our vision a display?
> A person with great vision sees in an estimated resolution of 9,600 x 9,000 with a PPI density of 2,183
It's not measured this way. First of all I assume we talk about display resolution - which then gets focused onto the retina - rather than density of rods and cones on the retina which is way denser in the fovea. Second, the spatial, temporal and color resolution of human sight is hugely dependent on the part of the retina, so a matching display must either match (probably by a multiple of 2 at least) the foveal resolution, or foveated rendering must be implemented. Then let's not get started on color spectrum, temporal resolution and how all these depend on the actual input, eg. the eye can detect I believe a few photons in otherwise complete darkness, but isn't as sensitive when flooded with light.
Not contradicting your point, what you claim is equally true for (often illegally) enriched folks. If I got a dollar for every case of a rich, entitled, famous, powerful, drunk, drugged, and/or shadowy criminal killing or maiming innocent people, sometimes on a pedestrian crossing, deserting the scene and leaving injured person to die, and getting away with it unscathed. The OJ Simpson equivalents in traffic accidents or negligent manslaughters. If anything, a large corp has a HUGE incentive to continually invest in their tech because even sporadic accidents and kills - as this one is - get HUGE publicity - and not a positive one. While the untouchable or thug getting away with it will learn that, well, they can get away with it. Repeat offense in these circles are the norm, not the exception. Recently heard of someone who immediately sat back into another car, collecting speeding tickets in the city while their driving license was already revoked. They can do that.
> Norway is now a nuclear target due to the deployment of 330 US Marines in its borders, a senior Russian politician has warned.
330 US Marines, that's nothing. Also, Norway is a NATO country so what's new here. Yet Russia threatens 5 million Norwegians and their neighbors with nukes.
that all of the companies there that cause inequality there, ie. successful ones attracting highly paid employees are internet based businesses. The internet is a thing that allows remote collaboration and global reach to whatever, be it markets or talent.
It's shocking that as the internet grows, it's being eclipsed by the growth of Silicon Valley as its driver, a single-node dependency.
Corps that happen to have significant production offices elsewhere also seem to drink the "work in person" cool-aid.
So in effect, a global network enabling remote collaboration spawned companies whose job posts are all "ah you must come to the office, share bathrooms, smell others' food, showcase piercings and tattoos, do a useless standup ritual every morning though we get work done on git repos, slack etc. because we're building out this global collaborative network!"
so then, if it's a tree of knowledge, maybe its structure could be clearer - it's often the case that there are circles in the graph where you keep clicking for explanations and get back to the page you started with, which, if you understood, would let you recurse and understand it.
The current practice of directly moving lowest entropy, precious energy to the highest entropy state - heat - will be considered immoral and eventually illegal. You won't be able to buy an electrical air or water heating system without that including compute units. Why heat with a dumb resistor when you can do it equally well with a CPU/GPU which does valuable computation, for which someone else would otherwise use up an equal amount of energy.
Not only that. It's always the dead who are widely reported. Injured - not so much. Reading the media, there are the 'critically injured' who are implicitly conveyed as being in a purgatory - either succumbing to their injuries, or leaving the hospital.
If you think about how many people died in Nice, London etc. and terrorist attacks in general, there's some kind of distribution curve going on. Sure, some of those injured will fully recover. I suppose that, at least as many people who died, if not some multiple of that, are left with permanent disabilities, lifelong medical conditions or unsolvable disfigurements.
Why is media obsessed with deaths exclusively, when just-not-fatal-enough, or life-altering injuries can be as horrific as, or sometimes even worse than death?
Where are the statistics and reports that say, X people died, Y people become permanently wheelchair-bound, lost limbs, vital organs or senses, have their face burnt or disfigured, or suffered brain injury, or in some cases, mental trauma, that ended their studies, career or even self-sufficiency? It's not like everyone injured is going home with some scratch wounds or perfectly healing bone fractures.
A more minor point is, there's initial score keeping of the dead, but as the count creeps up due to losses becoming known, and people dying in medical care subsequently, by the time the real count is known, the media interest subsided, i.e. there's a consistent bias that results in lower perceived impact than in reality. Also, there's shock and anger right then and there, but any interviews on (short)changed lives after the years either never happen or reach a minuscule audience.
Sure, media don't often artificially generate interest in things that are not of 'right now' time. But, when something like this in Stockholm happened, why don't media report back on outcomes of e.g. the attack in Nice? E.g. how many are still in hospital, or in rehabilitation, how many became wheelchair-bound?
Oh because there's currently equality in aging. In some current societies 40 is ripe old age if one is lucky to live that long, while in others, some kids go to school, do no work, have no spouse or kids, live on the support of their parents or take on huge debt till they're around 40. I.e. what's decrepit age one place is the start of social adulthood at another. Still, no war b/c of that...... though YES there are wars and they're often one reason why people there don't live that long, and wars are fought over control of resources which may lead to better economics so looking at it this way, there's ALREADY social consequences and it's well known, nothing new.
Yes differences will get even more pronounced within specific countries too, but there's already large life expectancy differences according to socioeconomic factors, many decades even in adjacent neighborhoods. There's also the proliferation of tech too, now almost everyone in 1st world countries can have a supercomputer in their pocket.
> "The team also saw improved organ health in normal mice but, because the mice are still living, could not yet say if longevity was extended."
Well, more accurately, perhaps the experiment hasn't been running long enough to even see if extended longevity kicked in. The animals don't actually need to die for the experiment to demonstrate life extension. In fact, the longer the animals are alive, the better:-)
Slightly related I'm always appalled at published life expectancy numbers. The only solid measure is obtained when a population dies out, and statistics can be calculated on that basis. But most people who die were born 50-90 years ago. Moreover, to get good statistics, it's worth looking at birth years for which there are few or no surviving members, i.e. going back around100 years. When we talk about life expectancy for younger folks e.g. at birth or even at 40, the life expectancy of people who were born 100 years ago is quite irrelevant - different diet, habits, wars, medicine etc.
I'm wondering if there are models and estimates for life expectancy in a forward-looking way, perhaps with alternative scenarios for future medical advances.
Rural Africans etc. will install satellite tracking dishes and there'll be a half minute interruption every few minutes as satellites fly by? Or it doesn't need line of sight?
> Without Russian, China, and India going along with it, it would probably fail.
Why, any non-participating countries can just be throttled as the source country is known and participation in the DDoS is known (if it isn't, the agreement is useless anyway).
1. so there WAS internet to begin with (in the gov't building) 2. he installed a pringles can type directional wifi antenna, like my father and thousands elsewhere 3. he worked out some network for further sharing 4. pirating, etc. source known? 5. somehow fiber optics then just appered and later on some T1? How is this *not* being served by telecom, and who absorbs network usage costs?
I agree with the contents of your post but it's AI, not "AIs". People who heard of AI earlier than the last 2-3 years use it in singular, so it gives a noob appearance.
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I bet they license a lot more than an ISA (which may actually be free to replicate, not sure) - ARM is an IP company and have modular hardware designs which Apple likely uses to a great extent, tweaking it here and there and adding or removing modules.
> (he didn't literally mean home, but rather personal-computers)
Thanks for the clarification!!!
I think you're stretching your argument a fair bit (how? a random point out of many: you don't consider that by the time the 3-4x battery density becomes available _and_ economical for commercial flights, maybe solar coating will develop in the meantime and add negligible cost and weight, while their efficiency may go up in the decades of timeframe we talk about) just in order to shove in a personal insult at a random person, who didn't claim to have a clue to begin with. So, whatever personal plight you're experiencing now, I wish you come out of it stronger and wiser. I opt not to call you clueless for either or all of 1. thinking that a 2-3x battery density will happen in a couple of years, 2. you assuming that solar specs and costs will stay standstill over decades; 3. ignoring that commercial flights in some decades may in some part describe the type of traffic you talk about, incl. unmanned planes (commercial =/= passenger)
The fuel could probably be coaxed into the combustion chamber by a combination of pressure differentials (carburetor-style, or working with the much higher intake airspeed) and gravity. There are motorcycles and even some cars that don't need a fuel pump.
A 3-4 times multiple doesn't sound that bad, considering density achievements so far. Maybe it can be made better with solar cells all over the top of the fuselage and wings, solar input is predictable for most of the flight duration. A large fraction of commercial airline CO2 emission is incurred by short-haul flights. Of course, by the time it's feasible and economical, we all drive affordable electric cars with a range of over 1000km.
CPU and memory clock rates used to be identical, then CPU speeds grew way more rapidly than memory speeds, leading to the misnomer: memory multiplier. So the upside of what you note is that we're slowly moving away from ridiculously high multipliers. Yes, the end game would be processing integrated with memory.
> However, there's already one display that's better than anything on offer, and that's your own vision.
Since when is our vision a display?
> A person with great vision sees in an estimated resolution of 9,600 x 9,000 with a PPI density of 2,183
It's not measured this way. First of all I assume we talk about display resolution - which then gets focused onto the retina - rather than density of rods and cones on the retina which is way denser in the fovea. Second, the spatial, temporal and color resolution of human sight is hugely dependent on the part of the retina, so a matching display must either match (probably by a multiple of 2 at least) the foveal resolution, or foveated rendering must be implemented. Then let's not get started on color spectrum, temporal resolution and how all these depend on the actual input, eg. the eye can detect I believe a few photons in otherwise complete darkness, but isn't as sensitive when flooded with light.
Not contradicting your point, what you claim is equally true for (often illegally) enriched folks. If I got a dollar for every case of a rich, entitled, famous, powerful, drunk, drugged, and/or shadowy criminal killing or maiming innocent people, sometimes on a pedestrian crossing, deserting the scene and leaving injured person to die, and getting away with it unscathed. The OJ Simpson equivalents in traffic accidents or negligent manslaughters. If anything, a large corp has a HUGE incentive to continually invest in their tech because even sporadic accidents and kills - as this one is - get HUGE publicity - and not a positive one. While the untouchable or thug getting away with it will learn that, well, they can get away with it. Repeat offense in these circles are the norm, not the exception. Recently heard of someone who immediately sat back into another car, collecting speeding tickets in the city while their driving license was already revoked. They can do that.
It's not even just ability, just the other day I saw a policeman texting while driving
Russia's measures look proportional:
> Norway is now a nuclear target due to the deployment of 330 US Marines in its borders, a senior Russian politician has warned.
330 US Marines, that's nothing. Also, Norway is a NATO country so what's new here. Yet Russia threatens 5 million Norwegians and their neighbors with nukes.
that all of the companies there that cause inequality there, ie. successful ones attracting highly paid employees are internet based businesses. The internet is a thing that allows remote collaboration and global reach to whatever, be it markets or talent.
It's shocking that as the internet grows, it's being eclipsed by the growth of Silicon Valley as its driver, a single-node dependency.
Corps that happen to have significant production offices elsewhere also seem to drink the "work in person" cool-aid.
So in effect, a global network enabling remote collaboration spawned companies whose job posts are all "ah you must come to the office, share bathrooms, smell others' food, showcase piercings and tattoos, do a useless standup ritual every morning though we get work done on git repos, slack etc. because we're building out this global collaborative network!"
Google, Facebook, ... why aren't you dogfooding?
so then, if it's a tree of knowledge, maybe its structure could be clearer - it's often the case that there are circles in the graph where you keep clicking for explanations and get back to the page you started with, which, if you understood, would let you recurse and understand it.
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The current practice of directly moving lowest entropy, precious energy to the highest entropy state - heat - will be considered immoral and eventually illegal. You won't be able to buy an electrical air or water heating system without that including compute units. Why heat with a dumb resistor when you can do it equally well with a CPU/GPU which does valuable computation, for which someone else would otherwise use up an equal amount of energy.
Not only that. It's always the dead who are widely reported. Injured - not so much. Reading the media, there are the 'critically injured' who are implicitly conveyed as being in a purgatory - either succumbing to their injuries, or leaving the hospital.
If you think about how many people died in Nice, London etc. and terrorist attacks in general, there's some kind of distribution curve going on. Sure, some of those injured will fully recover. I suppose that, at least as many people who died, if not some multiple of that, are left with permanent disabilities, lifelong medical conditions or unsolvable disfigurements.
Why is media obsessed with deaths exclusively, when just-not-fatal-enough, or life-altering injuries can be as horrific as, or sometimes even worse than death?
Where are the statistics and reports that say, X people died, Y people become permanently wheelchair-bound, lost limbs, vital organs or senses, have their face burnt or disfigured, or suffered brain injury, or in some cases, mental trauma, that ended their studies, career or even self-sufficiency? It's not like everyone injured is going home with some scratch wounds or perfectly healing bone fractures.
A more minor point is, there's initial score keeping of the dead, but as the count creeps up due to losses becoming known, and people dying in medical care subsequently, by the time the real count is known, the media interest subsided, i.e. there's a consistent bias that results in lower perceived impact than in reality. Also, there's shock and anger right then and there, but any interviews on (short)changed lives after the years either never happen or reach a minuscule audience.
Sure, media don't often artificially generate interest in things that are not of 'right now' time. But, when something like this in Stockholm happened, why don't media report back on outcomes of e.g. the attack in Nice? E.g. how many are still in hospital, or in rehabilitation, how many became wheelchair-bound?
I haven't watched the numberphile video but here's a related pedophile link: https://www.theguardian.com/au...
Oh because there's currently equality in aging. In some current societies 40 is ripe old age if one is lucky to live that long, while in others, some kids go to school, do no work, have no spouse or kids, live on the support of their parents or take on huge debt till they're around 40. I.e. what's decrepit age one place is the start of social adulthood at another. Still, no war b/c of that... ... though YES there are wars and they're often one reason why people there don't live that long, and wars are fought over control of resources which may lead to better economics so looking at it this way, there's ALREADY social consequences and it's well known, nothing new.
Yes differences will get even more pronounced within specific countries too, but there's already large life expectancy differences according to socioeconomic factors, many decades even in adjacent neighborhoods. There's also the proliferation of tech too, now almost everyone in 1st world countries can have a supercomputer in their pocket.
> "The team also saw improved organ health in normal mice but, because the mice are still living, could not yet say if longevity was extended."
Well, more accurately, perhaps the experiment hasn't been running long enough to even see if extended longevity kicked in. The animals don't actually need to die for the experiment to demonstrate life extension. In fact, the longer the animals are alive, the better :-)
Slightly related I'm always appalled at published life expectancy numbers. The only solid measure is obtained when a population dies out, and statistics can be calculated on that basis. But most people who die were born 50-90 years ago. Moreover, to get good statistics, it's worth looking at birth years for which there are few or no surviving members, i.e. going back around100 years. When we talk about life expectancy for younger folks e.g. at birth or even at 40, the life expectancy of people who were born 100 years ago is quite irrelevant - different diet, habits, wars, medicine etc.
I'm wondering if there are models and estimates for life expectancy in a forward-looking way, perhaps with alternative scenarios for future medical advances.
Rural Africans etc. will install satellite tracking dishes and there'll be a half minute interruption every few minutes as satellites fly by? Or it doesn't need line of sight?
> Without Russian, China, and India going along with it, it would probably fail.
Why, any non-participating countries can just be throttled as the source country is known and participation in the DDoS is known (if it isn't, the agreement is useless anyway).
> They were subjected to a set of questions regarding their file-sharing habits
I'm sure the resuts give statistically significant predictions over how people would fill out such questionnaires
and CP/M and MSX and NeXTSTEP and ...
Faraday cage in UK serves spirits to lure in users
1. so there WAS internet to begin with (in the gov't building)
2. he installed a pringles can type directional wifi antenna, like my father and thousands elsewhere
3. he worked out some network for further sharing
4. pirating, etc. source known?
5. somehow fiber optics then just appered and later on some T1? How is this *not* being served by telecom, and who absorbs network usage costs?
> AIs can drive cars
I agree with the contents of your post but it's AI, not "AIs". People who heard of AI earlier than the last 2-3 years use it in singular, so it gives a noob appearance.