The USA burned through 7000 million barrels of crude oil in 2015, so 32 million from sewage conversion is just a rounding error. Also, since the sewage comes out at many disparate locations across the country, building one of these plants at every sewer plant might not even be worth the hassle.
Advances in large scale chips capable of running neural networks have not slowed down, though. Microprocessors haven't gotten faster because the clock speeds haven't been rising, and there's only so much you can do to boost performance per thread by throwing more transistors at it. There may be some hype but there's a lot of things that are suddenly working. It really is true that there has been more progress in the last 5 years for AI than the first 50.
This may "just" be pattern recognition but it's stupendously better than before.
I personally liked Wirecutter's review style. Notably, you can find what they recommend with a link to buy it if you're in a hurry. They always have a section where the review goes over their credentials. They list all the comparable products they tried. They review things that other sites don't review, the general theme of the site is "consumer goods that a millennial has got to have".
I'm sure I'm going to get plenty of posts slamming them and claiming bias or how they often recommend something that is more expensive than the cheapest possible item you can buy that does the same thing. They absolutely do consider cost, unlike sites like wired, and usually they recommend the product that they feel offers the best bang/buck.
Anyways, they were good. Will The Times screw them up? Maybe. Maybe all the review staff will have to move into cubicles in some mammoth office building owned by NYT. Maybe they'll get treated a lot worse and they'll be forced to compromise their ethics to just collect as much cash as possible to boost a CEO's quarterly profits. Then again, maybe not. The Times bought five thirty eight, and I can't detect any significant downgrade in the site.
Maybe. From what I've read, the combination of GPU compute instructions and a shared memory space means there's benefits to assembly level optimization. There may be APIs and you may be able to write your compute shader code in C, but it's still basically bare metal. A different shader architecture is going to be different. Also, while it might no longer make sense to optimize if you're writing a single game, the vendors of Havok and UE4 and so forth do have an incentive to make their products better by writing low level bypasses for the API when it's too slow.
So I take it you don't own either console, since Microsoft has done a long list of dick things that make the rootkit scandal appear minor. So uhh...do you own a gaming PC? Do you know how many dick things AMD and Nvidia have done that you should be holding against them for the rest of their lives as companies?
Frankly, I'm surprised you have a computer at all. If you are going to be consistent and boycott every consumer good sold by a company that did an ultra-dick thing at one point in it's history, you should be naked and huddled under some newspapers right now. Oh, wait, I bet the paper company that made them did some bad things.
Other articles on this were speculating that the PS4 pro used the same GPU as the AMD RX 480. That's a ~5.8 terraflop GPU, and they were assuming that Sony was clocking it down to save on power supply requirements, fan noise, and cooler size requirements.
That's NOT what they did. The RX 480 uses a new architecture and wouldn't be instruction compatible. Games that use a higher level API would work but I suspect the highest performance PS4 games are bare metal optimized. Doubling the GPU means they get less performance but their older games Just Work.
I don't think this is what Microsoft is doing. Their numbers suggest they just grabbed the RX 480 and crammed it into a SOC. (it's a low transistor GPU for it's performance class, making it possible to fit the x86 CPU cores on the same die) That means their older games that are bare metal optimized will NOT work exactly the same.
So they are offering a bigger hardware spec this time but less games will work without issues with the "new" console.
Honestly, owning neither console myself, I think Sony's solution is going to work better with less problems.
Since 2003, there's been a market need for enormously more speed. That's the market advantage that flash drives have at all over HDDs, given that flash is still ~10x as expensive, so every feasible trick to boost speed is used. Sandforce alone is an engineering firm with dozens of engineers. I also have done flash access for my day job and I also did it a simple way, but I had different design requirements and accessing slowly in series was still blazing fast.
That's normally how flash storage works, yes. Usually the whole thing is RAID 0 ed many ways, and on the PC side, the bigger flash drives in the same series are faster up to a point. (up to the point that the bottleneck becomes the controller or the interface to the host PC)
Admittedly, it does have slow points. Luke Cage is also sort of a shout-out to black culture. There's an awful lot that went over my head but you can see it in the commentary. It was also fun to watch as a white person because whenever the characters have a dialogue line, it's set all the way to "superblack". Anything they say, it's the blackest possible way to say it. Me and a friend enjoyed making fun of this. Also, white people in the show are treated very differently. They are usually either crazy, stupid, or both (Shades, the partner of the detective, etc). The role reversal was amusing.
And several major black rappers made custom songs just for the show.
I subscribed to Netflix just to watch Luke Cage the moment it released instead of having to wait to pirate it. It was awesome. Stranger Things was awesome.
To be quite frank, while Netflix does have more misses than hits as far as original content, the hits they DO have are incredible. Directly comparable in entertainment value to a decent HBO show. (which is no surprise if they spent about as much money as HBO spends and they have about as talented a crew. Yes, Game of Thrones is still better than anything Netflix has, but GoT is arguably the biggest and flashiest television show in the world.)
Anyways, this is great news. Nothing to whine about. Netflix is a far better concept than ad supported TV. You can watch anything they have whenever you want. You pay a very paltry amount of money (9 bucks a month!) and get access to it all. No intrusive ads. The content is racier and more violent at times than anything advertisers would be comfortable with, or the moralizers who police broadcast TV would allow. They do lots of original ideas instead of rehashing the same cop/lawyer/doctor/reality shows that conventional network TV is rife with.
For nerds, Netflix is a representative of a golden age of content. This is what we all wanted on slashdot 15 years ago.
Shrug. Most people think that having people actively engaged in producing SOMETHING to make the lives of their fellow humans better is a good thing. Better than people sitting around smoking pot and arguing with each other.
Basic unfettered economics don't lead to that, you know. Employers know they get more labor per dollar working someone 40-60 hours per week than 2-3 people the same total hours. There's obviously an efficiency falloff at some point, of course.
Isn't the number of employed adults falling right now in the USA? Do you not think that the recent breakthroughs in AI will allow for genuinely intelligent systems that can perform at least limited domain tasks?
I kind of think both are true. I'm not convinced that UBI is the solution, either, because it's "pay people to do nothing". "pay people to do make-work" seems like a more palatable solution to me personally, or "pay people more than they are worth to do a mix of legitimate and make-work" an even better solution.
I asked about this on the UBI subreddit group. While I got some uber liberal bs responses, I also heard of a simple semi-fix. UBI only goes to adults, so any adults on the dole who choose to have kids would be reducing their personal spending money. I'd assume that UBI programs would also include a form of socialized medicine (you kind of have to, nobody can afford normal health insurance) that would presumably include basically off the shelf free contraceptives. That is, it would work like in some places in Europe, where there's drug stores subsidized by the government. You'd go in, swipe your ID card, and there would probably be like a $10 copay for most drugs and the contraceptives would have no copay for 1 months dose per month or something.
Well, it's Texas. Plenty of times a crime that should have been manslaughter gets convicted as murder. There's all kinds of over-convictions on top of convictions of innocent people, and Texas is the worst of them for this kind of thing.
If the order system let him make the offer, and didn't enforce it by making him pay for it, how is it fraud? Why didn't the trading system just ban his account the first time or first day he did this? Why does the ability to cancel a trade exist at all? Shouldn't the trading process be :
1. Wire the money or at least electronically commit the funds in a brokerage account to the trade 2. Send the buy or sell order once the money to support the trade is there 3. Transfer the stock between brokerage accounts at the clearing price.
So he abused a flaw in the cheating bastards who are doing high frequency trading. Like finding a flaw in the aimbots the cheaters are using in an FPS game and using it to get kills. And they want to jail him for 380 years ("ban him from life") for that.
Only the ones who were minorities and/or couldn't afford a good lawyer. Also, it depends on who was killed and the exact circumstances. Texans are totally cool with 2 men getting in a fight and it escalating to murder, they might even plead that one down to manslaughter. If a Texas lawman was killed, or if it was a woman or child, that's a different story.
Yeah, I find the actual process of OS configuration for Linux scary like that. And I hate the unnecessary steps out of the box distros force you to do that you don't have to do in Windows. Like the +chmod shit to modify your actual binary files to be executable. WTF is that about? How does that secure anything? Malware is still possible, and if I downloaded an executable binary I am going to run it. Why force me to jump through an extra hoop?
I understand that when the project requires it, you deal with the pain. I did a control system recently where the project required using TI DSPs with their absolutely awful, Eclipse based Code Composer. Just awful. But the actual circuit board needed to go in a harsh environment and the specific chip used is known functional under those conditions. It probably doubled the development time, fighting the tools and dependencies and TI's awful, near bare metal approach to hardware abstraction.
Anyways, see, the front end is just a bunch of shiny buttons and animations for most embedded systems. You can pass the state of that panel to another device that actually does the real work. I think of it an analogous to an illuminated 9 digit keyboard that you can wire the pins from the switches direct to a microcontroller. Just fancier.
So while yes you can use Qt for Linux, the latest android middleware is sexier. It LOOKS better. And you can hire some contractors to pimp out your GUI and make it really pop. And since every middleware tool made for phones will work - such as for vector based animations and graphics, that kind of thing - you can make it look great. Just use a SOC that has a BSP that supports Android, one that ships in a major phone.
The reason Android is good is because it's a monolithic system that has been thoroughly tested with over a billion users... Linux is this fragmented mess and you have a lot more trouble getting even basic stuff to work since the procedure differs depending on the build.
It's same logic. There's more developers and comparable numbers of tools working on Android today than desktop Linux, which is what the front end of a car is.
Also, Android comes crammed with a bunch of OS level shiny animations and effects and conventions. You can follow the same conventions for your car GUI so users who know how to use their phones can use it.
My bad. I thought you meant BroadCOM, a cheap SOC, the one that Raspberry Pis use. Now, to be fair, it is a part that costs just a few dollars and it has a gigabyte of RAM inside it. Also sips ~2.5W.
I'm also an embedded systems engineer, though I work on more specialized stuff. In my mind, though, the nobrainer thing to do for a car was to use an embedded ARM SOC - one of the power sipping ones - and use that to light up the display. I'd want to design the "front end" to use an embedded version of android, _disconnected_ from outside networks. Various systems I've worked on, that's always my first choice. I think Android is great because it has a huge amount of supported middleware and libraries built for it, and you can easily hire a contractor to spruce up your GUI and make it really pop.
I do the embedded controls on separate systems. I'm not an EE, though I do light board design, but my favorite thing to do is to dedicate a separate microcontroller to every significant task. Some of the 8 and 12 pin PICs are great for this.
Well, to be fair, in a car that's kind of needed on the spec sheet. This is an issue - especially if you use Android. Android has the problem that it's in so many hands that hackers will know how to get into your car because they reuse the same exploit discovered on phones. QNX would be more secure even if the software had just as many vulnerabilities because there's less hackers looking for them.
What OS would you use? Would your answer be different today?
Would you use Android today? Android has the advantages of a large developer pool and a large body behind it keeping it updated. You can get inexpensive broadwell ARM chips today that consume less than 5 watts like you say - aren't those broadwell chips you named ARM?
ARM architecture limits your options, standard Linux distros work on Arm but are not as well supported as they are on x86. Microsoft's shit also has an arm build, with similar support problems.
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The USA burned through 7000 million barrels of crude oil in 2015, so 32 million from sewage conversion is just a rounding error. Also, since the sewage comes out at many disparate locations across the country, building one of these plants at every sewer plant might not even be worth the hassle.
Out of curiosity, how do you explain :
1. Working autonomous cars that are almost safe enough for mass use
2. Computers winning at Go
Both heavily use advanced neural networks. Isn't the blob of atrophied jello in your skull also a very large neural network...?
Advances in large scale chips capable of running neural networks have not slowed down, though. Microprocessors haven't gotten faster because the clock speeds haven't been rising, and there's only so much you can do to boost performance per thread by throwing more transistors at it. There may be some hype but there's a lot of things that are suddenly working. It really is true that there has been more progress in the last 5 years for AI than the first 50.
This may "just" be pattern recognition but it's stupendously better than before.
I personally liked Wirecutter's review style. Notably, you can find what they recommend with a link to buy it if you're in a hurry. They always have a section where the review goes over their credentials. They list all the comparable products they tried. They review things that other sites don't review, the general theme of the site is "consumer goods that a millennial has got to have".
I'm sure I'm going to get plenty of posts slamming them and claiming bias or how they often recommend something that is more expensive than the cheapest possible item you can buy that does the same thing. They absolutely do consider cost, unlike sites like wired, and usually they recommend the product that they feel offers the best bang/buck.
Anyways, they were good. Will The Times screw them up? Maybe. Maybe all the review staff will have to move into cubicles in some mammoth office building owned by NYT. Maybe they'll get treated a lot worse and they'll be forced to compromise their ethics to just collect as much cash as possible to boost a CEO's quarterly profits. Then again, maybe not. The Times bought five thirty eight, and I can't detect any significant downgrade in the site.
Maybe. From what I've read, the combination of GPU compute instructions and a shared memory space means there's benefits to assembly level optimization. There may be APIs and you may be able to write your compute shader code in C, but it's still basically bare metal. A different shader architecture is going to be different. Also, while it might no longer make sense to optimize if you're writing a single game, the vendors of Havok and UE4 and so forth do have an incentive to make their products better by writing low level bypasses for the API when it's too slow.
So I take it you don't own either console, since Microsoft has done a long list of dick things that make the rootkit scandal appear minor. So uhh...do you own a gaming PC? Do you know how many dick things AMD and Nvidia have done that you should be holding against them for the rest of their lives as companies?
Frankly, I'm surprised you have a computer at all. If you are going to be consistent and boycott every consumer good sold by a company that did an ultra-dick thing at one point in it's history, you should be naked and huddled under some newspapers right now. Oh, wait, I bet the paper company that made them did some bad things.
Other articles on this were speculating that the PS4 pro used the same GPU as the AMD RX 480. That's a ~5.8 terraflop GPU, and they were assuming that Sony was clocking it down to save on power supply requirements, fan noise, and cooler size requirements.
That's NOT what they did. The RX 480 uses a new architecture and wouldn't be instruction compatible. Games that use a higher level API would work but I suspect the highest performance PS4 games are bare metal optimized. Doubling the GPU means they get less performance but their older games Just Work.
I don't think this is what Microsoft is doing. Their numbers suggest they just grabbed the RX 480 and crammed it into a SOC. (it's a low transistor GPU for it's performance class, making it possible to fit the x86 CPU cores on the same die) That means their older games that are bare metal optimized will NOT work exactly the same.
So they are offering a bigger hardware spec this time but less games will work without issues with the "new" console.
Honestly, owning neither console myself, I think Sony's solution is going to work better with less problems.
Since 2003, there's been a market need for enormously more speed. That's the market advantage that flash drives have at all over HDDs, given that flash is still ~10x as expensive, so every feasible trick to boost speed is used. Sandforce alone is an engineering firm with dozens of engineers. I also have done flash access for my day job and I also did it a simple way, but I had different design requirements and accessing slowly in series was still blazing fast.
That's normally how flash storage works, yes. Usually the whole thing is RAID 0 ed many ways, and on the PC side, the bigger flash drives in the same series are faster up to a point. (up to the point that the bottleneck becomes the controller or the interface to the host PC)
My ISP passes on strike letters from monitored torrents, so I have to use alternate methods that are much slower.
Admittedly, it does have slow points. Luke Cage is also sort of a shout-out to black culture. There's an awful lot that went over my head but you can see it in the commentary. It was also fun to watch as a white person because whenever the characters have a dialogue line, it's set all the way to "superblack". Anything they say, it's the blackest possible way to say it. Me and a friend enjoyed making fun of this. Also, white people in the show are treated very differently. They are usually either crazy, stupid, or both (Shades, the partner of the detective, etc). The role reversal was amusing.
And several major black rappers made custom songs just for the show.
I subscribed to Netflix just to watch Luke Cage the moment it released instead of having to wait to pirate it. It was awesome. Stranger Things was awesome.
To be quite frank, while Netflix does have more misses than hits as far as original content, the hits they DO have are incredible. Directly comparable in entertainment value to a decent HBO show. (which is no surprise if they spent about as much money as HBO spends and they have about as talented a crew. Yes, Game of Thrones is still better than anything Netflix has, but GoT is arguably the biggest and flashiest television show in the world.)
Anyways, this is great news. Nothing to whine about. Netflix is a far better concept than ad supported TV. You can watch anything they have whenever you want. You pay a very paltry amount of money (9 bucks a month!) and get access to it all. No intrusive ads. The content is racier and more violent at times than anything advertisers would be comfortable with, or the moralizers who police broadcast TV would allow. They do lots of original ideas instead of rehashing the same cop/lawyer/doctor/reality shows that conventional network TV is rife with.
For nerds, Netflix is a representative of a golden age of content. This is what we all wanted on slashdot 15 years ago.
Shrug. Most people think that having people actively engaged in producing SOMETHING to make the lives of their fellow humans better is a good thing. Better than people sitting around smoking pot and arguing with each other.
Basic unfettered economics don't lead to that, you know. Employers know they get more labor per dollar working someone 40-60 hours per week than 2-3 people the same total hours. There's obviously an efficiency falloff at some point, of course.
Isn't the number of employed adults falling right now in the USA? Do you not think that the recent breakthroughs in AI will allow for genuinely intelligent systems that can perform at least limited domain tasks?
I kind of think both are true. I'm not convinced that UBI is the solution, either, because it's "pay people to do nothing". "pay people to do make-work" seems like a more palatable solution to me personally, or "pay people more than they are worth to do a mix of legitimate and make-work" an even better solution.
I asked about this on the UBI subreddit group. While I got some uber liberal bs responses, I also heard of a simple semi-fix. UBI only goes to adults, so any adults on the dole who choose to have kids would be reducing their personal spending money. I'd assume that UBI programs would also include a form of socialized medicine (you kind of have to, nobody can afford normal health insurance) that would presumably include basically off the shelf free contraceptives. That is, it would work like in some places in Europe, where there's drug stores subsidized by the government. You'd go in, swipe your ID card, and there would probably be like a $10 copay for most drugs and the contraceptives would have no copay for 1 months dose per month or something.
Forcing projects to C avoids possible bugs and unreadable code from cowboy programmers on your team using some of the more esoteric features of C++.
It also is a requirement for embedded systems, which includes everything for an arduino and their bigger cousins.
Well, it's Texas. Plenty of times a crime that should have been manslaughter gets convicted as murder. There's all kinds of over-convictions on top of convictions of innocent people, and Texas is the worst of them for this kind of thing.
If the order system let him make the offer, and didn't enforce it by making him pay for it, how is it fraud? Why didn't the trading system just ban his account the first time or first day he did this? Why does the ability to cancel a trade exist at all? Shouldn't the trading process be :
1. Wire the money or at least electronically commit the funds in a brokerage account to the trade
2. Send the buy or sell order once the money to support the trade is there
3. Transfer the stock between brokerage accounts at the clearing price.
So he abused a flaw in the cheating bastards who are doing high frequency trading. Like finding a flaw in the aimbots the cheaters are using in an FPS game and using it to get kills. And they want to jail him for 380 years ("ban him from life") for that.
Only the ones who were minorities and/or couldn't afford a good lawyer. Also, it depends on who was killed and the exact circumstances. Texans are totally cool with 2 men getting in a fight and it escalating to murder, they might even plead that one down to manslaughter. If a Texas lawman was killed, or if it was a woman or child, that's a different story.
Yeah, I find the actual process of OS configuration for Linux scary like that. And I hate the unnecessary steps out of the box distros force you to do that you don't have to do in Windows. Like the +chmod shit to modify your actual binary files to be executable. WTF is that about? How does that secure anything? Malware is still possible, and if I downloaded an executable binary I am going to run it. Why force me to jump through an extra hoop?
I understand that when the project requires it, you deal with the pain. I did a control system recently where the project required using TI DSPs with their absolutely awful, Eclipse based Code Composer. Just awful. But the actual circuit board needed to go in a harsh environment and the specific chip used is known functional under those conditions. It probably doubled the development time, fighting the tools and dependencies and TI's awful, near bare metal approach to hardware abstraction.
Anyways, see, the front end is just a bunch of shiny buttons and animations for most embedded systems. You can pass the state of that panel to another device that actually does the real work. I think of it an analogous to an illuminated 9 digit keyboard that you can wire the pins from the switches direct to a microcontroller. Just fancier.
So while yes you can use Qt for Linux, the latest android middleware is sexier. It LOOKS better. And you can hire some contractors to pimp out your GUI and make it really pop. And since every middleware tool made for phones will work - such as for vector based animations and graphics, that kind of thing - you can make it look great. Just use a SOC that has a BSP that supports Android, one that ships in a major phone.
A couple magnitudes? Really?
The reason Android is good is because it's a monolithic system that has been thoroughly tested with over a billion users... Linux is this fragmented mess and you have a lot more trouble getting even basic stuff to work since the procedure differs depending on the build.
It's same logic. There's more developers and comparable numbers of tools working on Android today than desktop Linux, which is what the front end of a car is.
Also, Android comes crammed with a bunch of OS level shiny animations and effects and conventions. You can follow the same conventions for your car GUI so users who know how to use their phones can use it.
My bad. I thought you meant BroadCOM, a cheap SOC, the one that Raspberry Pis use. Now, to be fair, it is a part that costs just a few dollars and it has a gigabyte of RAM inside it. Also sips ~2.5W.
I'm also an embedded systems engineer, though I work on more specialized stuff. In my mind, though, the nobrainer thing to do for a car was to use an embedded ARM SOC - one of the power sipping ones - and use that to light up the display. I'd want to design the "front end" to use an embedded version of android, _disconnected_ from outside networks. Various systems I've worked on, that's always my first choice. I think Android is great because it has a huge amount of supported middleware and libraries built for it, and you can easily hire a contractor to spruce up your GUI and make it really pop.
I do the embedded controls on separate systems. I'm not an EE, though I do light board design, but my favorite thing to do is to dedicate a separate microcontroller to every significant task. Some of the 8 and 12 pin PICs are great for this.
Well, to be fair, in a car that's kind of needed on the spec sheet. This is an issue - especially if you use Android. Android has the problem that it's in so many hands that hackers will know how to get into your car because they reuse the same exploit discovered on phones. QNX would be more secure even if the software had just as many vulnerabilities because there's less hackers looking for them.
What OS would you use? Would your answer be different today?
Would you use Android today? Android has the advantages of a large developer pool and a large body behind it keeping it updated. You can get inexpensive broadwell ARM chips today that consume less than 5 watts like you say - aren't those broadwell chips you named ARM?
ARM architecture limits your options, standard Linux distros work on Arm but are not as well supported as they are on x86. Microsoft's shit also has an arm build, with similar support problems.