That sounds like NFC. In any case, the indoor lights on my car light up when I approach with my keys on me, before I touch the handle, so it's probably sending pulses regularly.
Amazon probably figured out that actual rollout of drones won't be profitable. Items under 5LB are generally low price, low margin. Electronics are an obvious exception but that'd be a small portion of the deliveries. Sure you pay more for drone delivery, but the R&D/rollout costs are high enough it'd take a long time to be profitable, even if it only delivered high-value merchandise like electronics. The key question to Amazon is if someone who needs something ASAP will buy it via Amazon, or drive to a local store and buy it. Someone who can get to a store quickly is likely in the suburbs/city, so demand for drone delivery won't be so high there. In rural areas, population density versus drone range is so low that it won't be profitable to roll out in the country either.
In other words, actual widescale rollout won't be profitable except maybe for small towns full of electronics nerds (who need that replacement CPU fan/SSD immediately) that are far away from electronics stores. What with some tech companies moving from Silicon Valley to random rural areas, these might actually exist, but probably not enough to justify the R&D. And they'd be betting no Fry's/Best Buy opens nearby. They could target night owls that need a replacement before the retail store opens, but this has to be a small portion of purchases (and they're betting the Fry's doesn't go 24 hour).
They had to walk back their endurance claims by an order of magnitude, which put certain applications of the tech into question. The rollout was also much slower, at a lower density, than expected, even after delays. It was hyped/implied to be a replacement for DRAM and NAND but has drawbacks that don't let it completely replace either.
This reminds me of what happened with NAND (i.e. flash memory) a few years ago. Ever-smaller transistors hit a wall due to endurance problems (each one could only be reprogrammed a few hundred/thousand times), so they went back to larger transistors but started stacking them into layers. Now we're at ~96 layers, and it's expected that a few thousand layers is feasible.
The problem with layering in CPUs is how hot each layer gets, and adding new layers is unlikely to help single-core performance beyond what cache can do. So, we're going to end up with low-clockspeed (to minimize heat) thousand-core CPUs... which will actually be perfect for GPUs, not so much for that single-threaded productivity task. I could also see this being used for HBM, which is already stacked.
Skimmed the article. The opening data is almost all stuff that's been previously revealed, or is obvious. The Q&A session is painful PR-speak noncommittal vagueness.
I want to know if it's going to support DXR (directx raytracing) or how many generations of architectures they're committing to. If they buy up another promising game and then shut it down like they did when they cancelled Larrabee, I'll be peeved.
Most human drivers can't handle all weather/roads/obstacles. Autonomous cars can handle some roads/places now, and the 'coverage map' will gradually increase. The question is how long until it does better than the average human, in various conditions, and my WAG is 3 years for the leading solution.
One thing I've marveled at is that he was the most recent President to NOT be reelected. And that was almost 25 years ago. That's probably a good argument in favor of term limits.
First thing that came to mind is that this puts a damper on the entire concept of a Mitochondrial Eve. OTOH, this info could help fill in question marks that got in the way of resolving the question once and for all.
Actually they desperately want to be seen as "doing something", no matter the cost to society. Ideally, something that'd actually pass, unlike sane comprehensive drug policy reform. Addressing the opioid epidemic was a plank of many political platforms this year.
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Turns out Jensen Huang is an AI. Suddenly Nvidia's cryptomining and AI applications make sense! Turing architecture... subtle...
That sounds like NFC. In any case, the indoor lights on my car light up when I approach with my keys on me, before I touch the handle, so it's probably sending pulses regularly.
It's a Ford, remember. It stalled in the White Castle drivethrough so they ditched it.
Amazon probably figured out that actual rollout of drones won't be profitable. Items under 5LB are generally low price, low margin. Electronics are an obvious exception but that'd be a small portion of the deliveries. Sure you pay more for drone delivery, but the R&D/rollout costs are high enough it'd take a long time to be profitable, even if it only delivered high-value merchandise like electronics.
The key question to Amazon is if someone who needs something ASAP will buy it via Amazon, or drive to a local store and buy it. Someone who can get to a store quickly is likely in the suburbs/city, so demand for drone delivery won't be so high there. In rural areas, population density versus drone range is so low that it won't be profitable to roll out in the country either.
In other words, actual widescale rollout won't be profitable except maybe for small towns full of electronics nerds (who need that replacement CPU fan/SSD immediately) that are far away from electronics stores. What with some tech companies moving from Silicon Valley to random rural areas, these might actually exist, but probably not enough to justify the R&D. And they'd be betting no Fry's/Best Buy opens nearby. They could target night owls that need a replacement before the retail store opens, but this has to be a small portion of purchases (and they're betting the Fry's doesn't go 24 hour).
They had to walk back their endurance claims by an order of magnitude, which put certain applications of the tech into question. The rollout was also much slower, at a lower density, than expected, even after delays. It was hyped/implied to be a replacement for DRAM and NAND but has drawbacks that don't let it completely replace either.
This reminds me of what happened with NAND (i.e. flash memory) a few years ago. Ever-smaller transistors hit a wall due to endurance problems (each one could only be reprogrammed a few hundred/thousand times), so they went back to larger transistors but started stacking them into layers. Now we're at ~96 layers, and it's expected that a few thousand layers is feasible.
The problem with layering in CPUs is how hot each layer gets, and adding new layers is unlikely to help single-core performance beyond what cache can do. So, we're going to end up with low-clockspeed (to minimize heat) thousand-core CPUs... which will actually be perfect for GPUs, not so much for that single-threaded productivity task. I could also see this being used for HBM, which is already stacked.
Before an arrow can move a distance, it must first move half that distance. Therefore, it will never move.
Skimmed the article. The opening data is almost all stuff that's been previously revealed, or is obvious. The Q&A session is painful PR-speak noncommittal vagueness.
I want to know if it's going to support DXR (directx raytracing) or how many generations of architectures they're committing to. If they buy up another promising game and then shut it down like they did when they cancelled Larrabee, I'll be peeved.
I thought of that, but suspect it's not usually done.
Unfortunately, no matter what you input, the final destination would always be a river in France.
In Soviet Russia, KGB drive wall into YOU!
Most human drivers can't handle all weather/roads/obstacles. Autonomous cars can handle some roads/places now, and the 'coverage map' will gradually increase. The question is how long until it does better than the average human, in various conditions, and my WAG is 3 years for the leading solution.
Balloons don't usually give you a few minutes of weightlessness and let you survive the trip.
When Mr. Branson says "bang! zoom! straight to the moon!" you better do whatever he says... or else!
I upgraded my eyes to 8k, so they're future-proof.
Now 16k screens, that's a fool's errand that will never take off.
If it kills them before they reach the road, it's not technically 'roadkill'...
I meant it's probably a good thing they're there, and it's an argument in favor of them in general.
One thing I've marveled at is that he was the most recent President to NOT be reelected. And that was almost 25 years ago. That's probably a good argument in favor of term limits.
*found on a cave wall*
Start a cookfire with this one weird trick!
How did Og make such a sharp knife? Hunters hate him!
The team broke these maps into 81-kilometer-squared tracts
Being paid to stare at huge tracts of land all day? Where can I sign up?!
First thing that came to mind is that this puts a damper on the entire concept of a Mitochondrial Eve. OTOH, this info could help fill in question marks that got in the way of resolving the question once and for all.
My sky god can beat up your sky god! /s
Indeed, let's ask Facebook and Amazon what they're doing about that.
Actually they desperately want to be seen as "doing something", no matter the cost to society. Ideally, something that'd actually pass, unlike sane comprehensive drug policy reform. Addressing the opioid epidemic was a plank of many political platforms this year.
Ya know what they say: abstinence makes the heart grow fonder.