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Computers were fun when single core performance was following Moore's Law. "Single-core performance was improving by 52% per year in 1986–2003 and 23% per year
by xnx 2y ago
Computers were fun when single core performance was following Moore's Law.
"Single-core performance was improving by 52% per year in 1986–2003 and 23% per year in 2003–2011, but slowed to just seven percent per year in 2011–2018."
When you got a new system, everything was noticeably faster.
Nothing has been as impressively faster since the SSD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
The current AI wave definitely captures that same feeling of progress (look at where video generation was 2 years ago), but is also mildly terrifying in a societal way.
- jiggawatts 2y agoNetwork speeds are still improving exponentially. There is talk of the Australian National Broadband Network getting an upgrade to either 2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps! That blows my mind.
- xnx 2y agoThat's awesome. Is it possible to notice a difference after 1GBps for home use? Downloading multi-GB weights would be a little faster. Even a 60 fps 8K stream is only measured in MB/s.
- jiggawatts 2y agoYes, but it’s not about web page load times, it’s about entirely new usecases being unlocked. Right now I have to keep my 8K raw video footage on a NAS. With 10 Gbps internet, I could keep it on cloud storage and still be able to edit it live. There are many more like this just waiting to be unlocked, especially home robotics with the AI model running in a data. This needs high an uncompressed stereo video feed, which is currently impractical. With 10 Gbps it’s entirely possible.