Posts by anderlan 19 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2022
"I'm not trying to play politics or foment controversy"
-- Sincerely, an oligarch who's worried by prospect of progressive administration, and who'd much rather perversely ally with the bumbling autocrat in the race, and who's also a social media mogul who's bottom line depends on controversy (whether true or false--but false controversies are more numerous and exciting to the misinformed, thusly more profitable).
It's only been 40 years since email became widely used and a scant 30 years since email addresses have become a concept known in even the tiniest village! THINK ABOUT THE PHBs! Won't someone think about the PHBs!?!?!?
An onerous price on fossil CO2 would equalize the playing field so that all low-carbon energy could compete against fossils. Including nuclear. An onerous Carbon price is nuclear's best and only real friend. But I never hear any nukers asking for one... (well, besides me and a few others - niskanencenter.org )
The first bit about the product protecting democracy--I don't know the market, so I was suggestible. But claiming all of tech (I thought it was a lot of green tech manufacturing) and all of American overperformance--wow. If his head gets any bigger, it'll need to be shot down off the coast of North Carolina.
"Production of chips for the automotive sector has previously been floated, but some sources told Bloomberg that the facility will focus on more mature 28-nanometer parts."
This is the same thing, so replace "but" with "and."
There are higher end parts in certain applications in certain cars (extreme autonomy) but usually you get the cheapest most reliable and mature parts you can for your ABS module or what have you.
I'm guessing by the time quantum computing is good enough to be neck and neck with regular crypto, it'll be possible for two parties to share one particle each of 2048 entangled pairs of particles and measure them every few seconds (I'm assuming such particles change state over time but entangled pairs remain entangled) at arbitrary distance for a totally unhackable securely encrypted connection. That was my armchair understanding of what entanglement can get you--theoretically successfully applied.
If home panels can disable the other higher amperage circuits when more than 2 of them are on (in this age of PV arrays and home batteries providing plenty of juice but well below modern domestic official kW provision numbers), then I suspect a rack can do something a little more subtle. I'm expecting a power router per rack just like the network router per rack. With hooks to the host kernels, even, for keeping load down when a node is told what its power budget is.
Sounds like Intel needed to have rethought the kernel itself with patterns that could use this. Nothing wins an argument (or market) like working code. Working code using gorgeous massive textures in a game or gorgeous massive universe-encompassing models in machine learning. I could see both benefitting.
Heck as for the latter application, the idea of a model is that if it's mature [i.e. in production] it seldom changes--that's great for this cheap write-limited RAM. When you are baby, your network prunes itself like crazy (writing, destructively no less!) then as your model of reality solidifies, it becomes less dynamic.
Any Numenta/Nupic boffin will not be the least surprised that sparse representation and cheap memory is the right approach for *most* AI because that's how the individual Natural Intelligence of tens (hundreds?) of billions of mammals does its thing. Only several out of 100 to 1000ish cells fire to represent a thing in cortical memory. And as we age we all know that neurons are crappng out left and right, and still, somehow, we manage to function. These are 2 sides of the same neocortical memory/mammalian intelligence coin.
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