Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: 99.6% accuracy sounds good

Unless you have a jury that don't believes in no book-lerning and know that the police never lie (except for my g'damn speeding ticket) and have an innate ability to tell a criminal at first sight

Re: 99.6% accuracy sounds good

The actual accuracy isn't as important as the claimed accuracy.

The point is to grab a 'person known to the police', confront them with a 99.9% match and suggest that the might like to confess to a minor charge, or you will go up against a jury with a guaranteed 99.6% guilty match by the computer.

Re: He bribed the CCP?

>The villainous duo could share the same cell for the next 130 years.

That's initially going to be a bit unpleasant, Madoff died a couple of years ago.

Longer term it's a rather uneconomic use of a cell

Re: He bribed the CCP?

If the CCP are the enemy and bribing people is bad = doesn't that make him the good guy?

Re: ChatGPT forerunner

>a ChatGPT forerunner

There was one from Sheffield but it works on the same principle as the Yorkshire Intelligence Agency: Ear all, see all, say nowt;

On the other hand you can txt Clash lyrics to your band mates and have Special Branch kicking your door in 5 mins later

Re: s/ChatGPT/Librarys/g

Murder on the Orient Replacement Bus Service

If chatGPT is just regurgitating a corpus of public domain text, it's only going to be dangerous around butlers at country house weekends

Re: Rather them than me

I think it's like a Poul Anderson novel, generations of astronauts live through this project until their distant descendants finally reach the launch

Re: Current unanticipated costs total $883M

Aren't they due to re-enter the ISS soon?

If Boeing can stretch out the delays for long enough they will never have to fly and can probably score a big government payment for cancelling the contract

Re: I am not fan of corporate cultures...

>. I wish we had more scientists leading the corporations of today

Ironically AMD, currently eating Intel's lunch, has

So does TSMC who make all this possible

Even Nvidia's CEO is an engineer, if not on quite the same level as Drs Su or Moore

Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…

And the HP Laserjet is still running

Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…

We must have transitioned from MFM to ESDI at some point, there were definitely separate data / control cables but we had 330Mb cos we had to run Kodak (!) Unix on the 386, installed from boxes of 5.25 floppies

I remember in the mid 90s when external 1 Gb SCSI disks dropped to £1000, we got one for each Sun so that we would never have to worry about disk space ever again.

Re: I am not fan of corporate cultures...

ps I'm not sure that Moore's law didn't actually stop at around 14nm designs for the original purely financial defn

Features have got smaller, and that's necessary for speed/size/power consumption, but I don't know if a 3nm fabbed device is cheaper/transistor than at 5nm

Re: 1996-2023

Interesting how they were only thinking microprocessor = desktop CPU

Even in 96 the number of small embedded, 8051, ARM etc massively outnumbered x86 / Sparc / PowerPC

Re: I am not fan of corporate cultures...

No it was an observation that the process cost of each wafer was proportional to the wafer area but the cost of going to smaller features was a one-off cost of a mask stepper (at least until we got into insanity-optics of EUV) and making a gate 30% smaller lets you fit twice as many parts in the same area.

Re: And I had just bought some more Xeons, too…

>Hard drives for PC ATs in late 80's were confined to <500MB (ESDI) drives

Or full-height 330Mb MFM drives that needed their own controller card - and were 10x the 32Mb limit for DOS/Win3.1

>And really, what IS the assurance that none of the petroleum used in the vinyl came from animals?

But at least they were free-range dinosaurs

Re: Just sayin...

All our optical engineers are mainland Chinese

You know how schools cut back on STEM cos specialist teachers and labs were expensive ?

And the universities cut back on physics and chemistry cos specialist teachers and labs were expensive ?

And top physics dept stopped teaching classical optics in the 70/80s cos it was old and boring ?

And the few top optics research depts shut because all the students wanted to do cooler/better funded topics ?

Well this was also true everywhere outside china

Re: Perhaps one should hold some ASML stock

I meant their customers had tiny margins. TSMC are a $$$$$ company but fabs don't have Apple 30% margins

Re: Perhaps one should hold some ASML stock

Strangely not that profitable.

Yes they are a monopoly supplier of vital equipment, but to a tiny industry that has tiny margins and they themselves have to invest a fortune in R&D to just build what they already have

Re: Hope & Change

"Jazz musicians . . . of some notoriety my Lord"

Re: Hope & Change

I used to respect Sun, nice workstations !

Re: Shouldn't this be the rule?

But if they are on a movie review show on the non-commercial BBC then we must assume they are telling the truth about how great their upcoming movie is and have no financial interest

Re: The Olympics have always been a political joke and a waste of time

>IMO the IOC is the most corrupt institution on the planet.

FIFA, we're holding the next world cup at the bottom of the ocean following a very nice lunch with BP

>(54 byte packets, anybody?)

53 bytes (well 48byte packet and 5 byte header) cos even numbers are for squares.

It's perfectly sensible, the datacoms guys wanted larger 64byte for high speed efficiency and the telecoms guys wanted smaller 32byte for better latency - so they decided on a perfectly reasonable compromise of 48bytes. then they added a separate header so you wouldn't have to bother reading the packet to find out what to do with it. then the committee went for a series of long lunches

Re: Drop out

Strictly speaking cat5 specifies the assembly, both the plug and cable and quality of the connection.

I've made a few custom long runs with genuine cat5 cable but crimped to a cat0.5 standard

The primary or even sole purpose of some of these computer generated image "CGI" systems is to create fake stuff.

Ban Marvel movies now

Re: What stunt will 'Elon the magnificent' play to get around this?

They also proposed a law for motorcycles that said no after-market parts or accessories - for safety

Not at all motivated by BMW