Posts by katrinab 6414 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2016
I believe it is not possible to do it on a Turing machine. Obviously it is possible to create new intelligent beings, it is called having babies, but it is impossible to preduct whether it will be possible at some point the the future to do it another way outside of the more obvious techniques in the biology lab.
Lets suppose you encounter a door with a slightly different shape of handle from any you have seen before.
Will you have any difficulty recognising the handle and opening the door? Do you think other humans would struggle? [with the recognition and understanding the method of opening it, I get that due to disabilities some humans struggle with door handles in general, that's not what I mean]
This is the sort of really obvious thing that computers struggle with.
Level 5 certification probably needs to be done by the city rather than state or national governments. A computer that is able to drive safely in San Francisco isn't necessarily able to drive safely in New York, and almost certainly isn't able to drive safely in London, or the Scottish Highlands.
The way I look at it is this:
At my local Tesco, there are 16 petrol pumps, and 500 parking spaces.
There's generally a queue for the petrol station, but it doesn't take too long to get through.
4 of the parking spaces have chargers, and they are always fully occupied, so at the moment, 4 is clearly not enough.
Basically, all of the parking spaces in use would need to have chargers. People would park, plug their car into the charger, do their shopping, and hopefully come out to a fully charged car.
I'm not sure we actually need 500 parking spaces, but definitely we need 250, maybe 350 to allow for really busy shopping periods before Christmas.
So about 20 chargers for each pump.
Efficiency of a petrol engine - around 40%
Efficiency of a combined cycle gas power station - around 50%
National grid efficiency from powerstation to plug - around 92%
Efficiency of an electric car from plug to wheel - around 90%
Multiply those together and you get 41.4%, or basically it is the same. Gas emits less carbon than petrol. Other energy sources emit less carbon than gas, except for coal which mostly isn't used any more.
So the benefits are from using better fuel sources, not the fact that it is electric.
But mostly, please do campaign for the ability to put the ISP's box in dumb mode.
I have OpnSense for my routing. pfSense is another alternative which does much the same thing.
I have a separate pair of wireless access points, currely Apple AirPorts but I will likely replace them at some point in the near future.
My Ivy Bridge i7 3770 runs Windows 10 just fine, and is very usable for anything other than the latest games and stuff like video editing. That is about 11 years old now, and should be good for about another 2 years. Windows 11 isn't officially supported, but with a couple of registry edits at install-time, you can get it running.
Most people don't buy hardware features, that is true, but they do buy hardware capable of running specific software.
So it is down to what software makes use of it.
As a starting point, I would look at what people are runing the requires for example Apple Neural Engine or Google Tensor Cores, and then ask if it moves sense to move that from the phone to the desktop.
For me, being able to recognise text in photos and copy/paste it, is useful. Works on my iPad with an A14, but not on my iPhone with an A11.
People still seem to be thinking back to when the Soviet Union + Soviet-aligned countries were the 2nd largest "country" in the world behind China.
India overtook them in the 1960s, and overtook China earlier this year.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, around 1/3 of the population was Russia, 1/3 other Soviet Union, and 1/3 aligned countries.
Now they are only a little over twice the size of the UK, and smaller than countries like Bangladesh and Nigeria. They are still the largest country in the world in terms of km², but it is mostly uninhabited.
Asianometry certainly knows is stuff. Good recommendation.
What I would say though is that SMIC aren't using EUV, they are pushing DUV to its absolute limits.
However, I think ASML is also the only company in the world that makes DUV machines.
My question is, if SMIC got hold of an EUV machine, would they be able to apply the same techniques to that, and produce even smaller chips than Samsung and TSMC?
You no longer need to copy the formula 1000 times.
You could for example put =SEQUENCE(1000) in cell A1
In B1, you could put =A1#*2 [The # means that it references all of the cells output by the formula in A1, not just A1 itself.]
In C1, you could put =SUM(B1#)
Or, you could do =SUM(SEQUENCE(1000)*2) to get the same result.
That is because it is the principal of it.
People understand that a seat with heating elements in it is going to cost more than one without. You can decide whether it is worth paying £350 for.
People understand that Netflix has an ongoing cost to cover servers, bandwidth, royalties to film producers and so on and they can decide whether it is worth paying £16 per month.
If they are going to fit the more expensive type of seats to the car anyway, then there is no ongoing cost to BMW to allow you to use the switch to operate them.
I'm guessing the attraction of Coutts to rich people is that they can flash their card around and let people know they are rich, which only works if normal people actually know that Coutts is a rich person's bank. Otherwise it is an obscure bank that nobody has heard of, and flashing the card doesn't have the desired effect.
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