User: chadkennedyonline

Compared to Top500 Supercomputers

On: Google Announces 8x Faster TPU 3.0 For AI, Machine Learning (extremetech.com)

So at the 100 PFLOPS stated in the article, this thing ties with the worlds top supercomputer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#Top_10_ranking)? That's pretty nuts.

Is Veeo Systems real?

On: Self-Driving Cars Will Be In 30 US Cities By the End of Next Year

Why does a Google search for "Veeo Systems" not return a link to the company? Only returns references to the company. Something seems fishy.

Quality of metal?

On: Researchers Create World's First 3D-Printed Jet Engines

Yes, it's made from metal, which is very cool! But aircraft components undergo rigorous inspection looking for cracks, defects, etc in the structure of the metal itself. Will this 3D-printed metal meet those standards?

Let's try limbs first

On: Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away

Can we even connect a limb in such a way that the person has full mobility and feeling in the limb? Pretty sure the answer is no. Probably should get that one down and working first.

Compared to mass of our galaxy

On: 12-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Discovered

Our galaxy is 1000 billion suns in mass. So this guy is 1.2% the mass of our entire galaxy. That's huge. By comparison, the black hole at the center of our galaxy is 4 million suns in mass.

Re:How do you get 1Tbs in 100MHz of BW?

On: UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology

Take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... 100MHz of bandwidth only equals 100MBps throughput if Signal power = Noise power. Working backwards implies the SNR from the experiment is 30000. I'm not sure if that is a reasonable number or not, but sound high to me. My work: 10 * math.log10(2**(1e12/1e8) - 1)

Test by translating back

On: Microsoft Translator Now Supports Yucatec Maya and Querétaro Otomi Language

Test it out by translating to one of the new languages and then translating back to English. I hope it works better than most translation software I've seen. Otherwise we may be fooling ourselves about how much of the language is being preserved.

Radio

On: Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair"

How much do artists get paid for each play of their track on the radio?

A Reaction to Other Studies

On: Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior

I think this may be in response to at least one other study showing a similar effect when subjects were primed with religious concepts: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/18/9/803.abstract

Breathing hazard

On: Flexible, Fiber-Optic Solar Cell Could Be Woven Into Clothing

How is this material any better than wearing a fiberglass t-shirt all day? Sounds pretty itchy - and unhealthy.

Bias Disclosure

On: Threads Considered Harmful

James Reinders, the article's author, is the Intel marketing director for the company's Developer Products Division. The Developer Products Division is responsible for the Thread Building blocks (TBB) API, which is mentioned in the article as a solution to the "problem" presented. To his credit, Mr. Reinders does also mention OpenMP.