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by bgnn 1y ago
There's already 25G BASE-T over CAT6 available. I worked on and taped out a 25G PHY in 2019. Cable reach is 30m instead of 100m though. There's work going on 40G for 10m reach.
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by bgnn 1y ago
It seems there isn't much difference on physical layer with standard 802.3 100Gb/lane. So in principle this is a software addition. Hardware supporting it should be available quickly. I'm not familiar with infiniband, so can&
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by bgnn 1y ago
Who is thinking that LLMs are thinking to begin with. It would have been amazing if they could. All the reasoning etc are just taking a stab at it but far from thinking.
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by bgnn 1y ago
That's good to hear that I'm foolish. It's always nice to be foolish. Foolishness aside, all we have to predict the future is the current capabilities of the current technology. Bear and bull alike do this. This is the reason
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by bgnn 1y ago
Full keyboards with numpad are great but I wish the numpad was on the left side of the keyboard so that it doesn't fall between the alphabetical keys and the mouse (right handed). I always feel my right arm travels unnecessarily long d
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by bgnn 1y ago
Doesn't an EU brach of a foreign company has to comply with EU laws anyhow. The problem is the parent company being US based and susceptible to US government bullying. As long as it is still Amazon owned nothing fundamental changes rea
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by bgnn 1y ago
Isn't the article saying it's mainly useful for SW? I'm an electrical engineer and the only cases LLMs useful were developing phyton scripts or translating a text into a foreign language that I'm fluently speaking. They
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by bgnn 1y ago
I'm a knowledge worker (electrical engineer) but not one bit worried about being replaced by AI in yhe foreseeable future. It does not only neet to be reliable, but also should be able to create, as in create physically working complex
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by bgnn 1y ago
A lot of European brands (Villeroy & Boch, Geberit, Duravit etc) have Japanese style toilets for a while now, albeit often with less buttons and functions. It's getting more common in Northern Europe.
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by bgnn 1y ago
How can a wet room floor like toilet or barhroom be damaged? They have to be specific type of concrete + tiles on top, don't they? At least that's what I'm used to.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Yeah but HW isn't sexy if it's not for AI or quantum computing. I hope their behaviour changes.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Even before that, your customers don't buy anything with a bug. It's a whole different business model.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Very valid question. The whole industry is trying to do it, mainly with the hope of increasing profit margins to SW levels. But there are fundamental issues that is in the way (this is valid for ASIC design): - We only use models to simulat
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by bgnn 1y ago
That's often potential customers. It's common to have other HW companies invest in HW start ups. Unfortunately there are not many good VCs for HW development. Even the ones marketing themselves as much don't like the meager r
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by bgnn 1y ago
I second this. I've worked for several early stage HW start-ups (ASIC development). VC backed ones ended up in a weird state of not being able to move from proof of concept to production because at that point the VCs were out of patien
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by bgnn 1y ago
LLMs brought an environment of speculation/gambling about its impact in thr future. Pretty much every exec and investor is blinded by it.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Yeah basically they killed YouTube for this.
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by bgnn 1y ago
one can implement SerDes at any point of the electro-optical boundary. For example, if we have 1 Tbps incoming NRZ data from the fiber, and the CMOS technology at hand only allows 10 GHz clock speed for the slicers, one can have 100x receiv
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by bgnn 1y ago
This is the main mechanism of interference anyhow, called inter-symbol-interference.
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by bgnn 1y ago
True but no matter how healthy one is in their 60s and 70s people's health degrade significantly in their 80s. So, you have then 10 year of healthy life after retirement. There's the flip side if the coin though: old people are he
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by bgnn 1y ago
> This is completely nonsensical. Banks (eliding a lot of important details about money and loan creation) use money in those accounts to make loans, No, banks do have to have a set minimum ratio of the credit to deposited money and that
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by bgnn 1y ago
The second point is very important. Money is created as debt and asset price inflation is one major mechanism to achieve this. There are other mechanisms too, like market value inflation. Companies with a huge hype, say Open AI, can raise m
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by bgnn 1y ago
This! Academia != science. It is a social construct and dominated by people with power within a given field. That being said, double blind review process improved the author engineering problem a lot.
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by bgnn 1y ago
The poetic style of Quanta makes it impossible to understand what does this mean. Can someone familiar with the topic explain is this applicable to real world computers or just a theoretical scenario? Does this mean we need more memory in c
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by bgnn 1y ago
Wow I didn't expect this to be down voted. I guess there are people who knows the future.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Exactly this. What we expect from them is our speculation. In reality nobody knows the future and there's no way to know the future.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Exactly. A lot of academics fall for it, thinking these are normal amounts. Then later when they try to raise money they often get into trouble as no invester in their right mind wang to touch them. Having a university as a major share hold
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by bgnn 1y ago
Dutch universities go for up to 25%, just for the IP rights [1]. With seed funding etc it often goes up to 30-35%. [1] Dutch Universities spin-off terms: https://www.delftenterprises.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023&#x2F
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by bgnn 1y ago
When I did that university's cut was 30 to 50% of shares at a top Durch university.
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by bgnn 1y ago
I don't think VC system is good, but I'm tired of going in to EU calls to only see there's actually no money for start-ups but it's often earmarked to keep big EU companies afloat and competitive. This is in itself not a

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