Re: but ....
Its got 3 ai chips on it - it will rewrite it so it can!
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In my first proper job we worked on things like Vax780s and things of less power.That, in my job, left a lot of waiting time for jobs to finish and I used it to learn new skills. Because of the nature of the job you could do create some moderately accurate productivity data. Over about 6 years I worked our a continuous 37 1/2 hr week was the most productive. I could do a couple of weeks of 60hr weeks to get a job finished on time and then it would take a month of normal to get back up to normal. A month of 60hrs would lead to lower than normal productivity, largely due to recovering from errors but also from lack of enthusiasm.
The real answer to loss of productivity in longer hours I discovered working in the US where 12 hr days 6 days a week seemed to be the norm: just dont do anything that might tire you out like work.
Its always worth noting that even in the days of floppies etc there is almost always a way that intelligent forensics will reduce the possible perpetrators to a manageable level. I've even managed to convict myself of a Friday afternoon cock-up after I left someone I detested's leaving do early and returned to the office to wait for a lift home. I have no memory of the incident but I figured it can only have been me but no-one noticed I'd gone and it was a couple of weeks later when the system crashed and the date stamp on the file probably didnt lie. No-one else worked it out though.
One of the first think I used to do was to create a file of all the reserved word in a language so that something could be done with them - editor highlighting or a shell script to grep them on save. That was before it took longer to learn how to program the editor than it did several languages. Thank god error reporting has improved faster than documentation.
In the 1990s electricity could be used to electrolyse water and the resulting hydrogen could be used in a power cell and 82% of the energy could be recovered. You are saying 30 years later I couldn't buy the cheap electricity (or even the negative prices sometimes seen) convert it to Hydrogen, store it and use it in power cells and sell that back at a profit at peak times? I dont know what these problems are of yours but it could be Chemistry and Physics GCSE defecit.
TBF running life critical software on a laptop (assuming it leaves the office/house) is a bit of a no-no. And that software and its results would be better served by being run on something more efficient and not so portable. I've got a screamer of an 8 core laptop but am moving my crunching off to a more cost effective GPU on a shit motherboard, or I was until I read this and am wondering about ECC packed GPUs.though I think I'd probably do my error correcting by re-running certain proofs - I can probably cope with 10 errors a year as I'm still in learning/exploratory mode but in a business mode I could easily get away with selling that error rate but wouldnt feel happy about it.
This does make me wonder about the problem domain. I have just tried running some tests on some AI problems and these seem largely immune to bit flip type errors as they tend to try and converge and an error just slows down the convergence in training. And I guess one could use an ECC mainboard to drive a GPU relatively safely by refreshing the model on the GPU on a regular basis..
My school had Nissen huts that were build during WWII and still used into the late 70s when I left and never went back. They were actually more watertight than the late 60s built secondary modern in town. But they took out the stoves so seriously cold in winter for those in short trousers!
I was doing chips for 400mb Trans Atlantic FO cables in the mid 80s. Never thought I'd have about 15 times that capacity in my own house for the kids homework and games. I can get twice that during the day to the rest of the world and haven't used a phone yet this year!
Nowadays it would probably be quite easy - have a look at how a few million disks are used and extrapolate from that. Back then we were veering all over the place and had no tools to collect the data required. I still remember saying the internet would never catch on at home as you really needed a network card and 10mbps to make it faster than ordering a tape or some floppies over the phone. But as a chip designer I underestimated the power of porn in the hands of management!
The London Electric Tram company could replace a battery in less than 3 minutes in 1910. Beats any charging point I've heard of.
You dont even need the whole car battery to be replaceable. Imagine if you could just pop out and in something that gives you (say) 50 miles so you can get to a proper charging point. Could revolutionise the whole industry.
And possibly the wind err cycle.
One thing seemingly not mentioned were flow batteries where the chargy containing thing is a liquid and can be flushed one way during charging into a store and then back to make the battery provide power, You can get a lot of umph in a bath full of chargy juice.
It depends. haven't looked at the full docs but last time I did something with HTML I just parsed some tables from the documentation and it practically wrote the code itself. That was HTML4 - I've just had a quick look at 5 and cant find the same sort of data but it may be there somewhere. The docs look parse able for a lot of the data one would require.
Access could go to good places if you connected into SQLServer rather than the JET thingy - indeed plugging it into MySQL for development was my favourite time saver. Discovering VB had gone OO just before I wandered off leaving MS to their own devices makes me wonder what I could do with it today.
You've just reminded me of a job interview I had for working in a fruit machine company. It was all going well until I suggested simulating the machines to ensure they were fully random and then realised from the look on the interviewers face that perhaps these sequences people jabbered about allowing them to win on supposedly random machines were in fact real after all! I let myself out.
The ability of the system to route around problems require someone to build the routes to be able to route a round the problem.
We had 3 ISDN Private Wire routes out of the building for our IT data centre heading in different directions and only discovered BT had decided to re-route two of them on the same trunk as the other a couple of hundred yards from the building when someone dug it up. I cant remember if we got a refund or not.
What rules? Have you seen how small a FO cable can be? Presumably it would be replacing the phone line anyway so in reality you would be relieving the poles of stress not adding it.
The same goes for underground though I accept there may not be the space to get the first FO cables down the line, that once there should really start to make space in the duct.