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by smaddox 10y ago
I would suggest reading the following article to see a source for comparing Intel vs competitors: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in...
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by smaddox 10y ago
I suggest reading the following article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in... The plot 2/3 down the page compares Intel's process with competitors. It's a bit out of date
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by smaddox 10y ago
Magic leap is way beyond designing low latency display drivers (hardware or software). They're designing and fabricating their own many-layer photonic crystals with complexity rivaling that of VLSI chips from a couple decades ago (exce
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by smaddox 10y ago
Any attempt to re-imagine programming is refreshing, but it's unclear to me if this is more than a domain specific language (DSL). Is it possible to implement, for example, the bar graph from lower primitives?
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by smaddox 10y ago
"I like to say that for me, the #1 application of quantum computing—more than codebreaking, machine learning, or even quantum simulation—is just disproving the people who say quantum computing is impossible! So, quantum supremacy targ
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by smaddox 10y ago
Nice. I love the comparison of the simplex minimization implementations for FORTRAN and FORTH.
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by smaddox 10y ago
I'm really impressed with Factor. This is the first time I've heard about it. Thank you for mentioning it.
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by smaddox 10y ago
How would you misread the values? I suppose the symbols for 0x1/0x4 or 0x2/0x8 could be written sloppily enough to be confused, but it's no worse than trying to distinguish sloppily-written arabic numeral symbols. In fact, I
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by smaddox 10y ago
Quasi-particles, which includes electrons, in a crystal can have a wide range of effective masses depending on the crystal's band structure and the particle state.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Not quite. They mean they have a higher effective mass, which is a solid-state physics quantity describing quasi-particles such as electrons and holes in a crystal. You are correct that high effective mass particles do not quantum tunnel as
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by smaddox 10y ago
14 nm is just a name at this point, as discussed in this public available article: "Between the ill-defined naming of new process nodes across the entire industry and Intel’s continuing lead in semiconductor manufacturing, Intel likes
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by smaddox 10y ago
Optical switches are extremely large compared to contemporary transistors, and there's no obvious way to scale them smaller than the diffraction limit.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Lying by omission seems to be widely accepted now as necessary and expected in order achieve tenure, secure funding, etc. I find it abhorrent. If you go back and read experimental papers from the 1800's, before science became an indust
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by smaddox 10y ago
Certainly true. There's a larger gap between the atheism of Feynman et al and the "atheism" of Stalin, than between the latter and the major world religions.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Wolfram shows quite convincingly that the key properties of special and general relativity can be captured in a graph model. As for quantum mechanics, most of the ontological complications are a consequence of attempting to abolish nonlocal
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by smaddox 10y ago
I'm curious, do you have an opinion about Stephen Wolfram's idea of graph/knot theory being the underlying principle of reality? To me, it seems much more ontologically acceptable than string theory and many-worlds interpreta
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by smaddox 10y ago
Couldn't get into Infinite Jest. Still sitting on my bookshelf; ~50 pages in, I really just didn't care. DFW's Kenyan commencement speech is what got me interested in his writing. I'd like to go back and finish Infinite
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by smaddox 10y ago
Prior to the global financial crisis, Neoclassical Economists, i.e. the ones running the US Fed, would not even consider the level of private debt as a significant macroeconomic metric. That's changed slightly, but not really. They sti
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by smaddox 10y ago
Pruning works for understanding sparse networks, but not for holographic networks, which can encode a much higher information density. Understanding a holographic network requires a large amount of effort, similar to determining the content
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by smaddox 10y ago
Sucrose is half fructose half glucose. In the body, the enzyme sucrase nearly instantaneously splits sucrose into fructose and glucose.
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by smaddox 10y ago
This blog post by Steve Keen, Professor of Economics and Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University London, is an excellent summary of the flaws of the Neoclassical Economics school of thought that currently dominates po
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The need for pluralism in economics(debtdeflation.com)
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by smaddox 10y ago
The FDA is extremely conservative, but the evidence in this case is overwhelming. No need to think anything about the FDA has changed.
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by smaddox 10y ago
If you posit the conceptual existence of such a database, then all we really do when we code, even today, is choose a particular set of abstractions to implement a specification. It would be certainly be nice if existing languages/anal
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by smaddox 10y ago
This is not at all my area of expertise, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. That being said, Javascript Flow seems like a better solution than Typescript. Long term, a sandboxed low-level VM like WebAssembly will hopefully catch on an
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by smaddox 10y ago
The kind of psychological problems I'm talking about aren't the kind that are fixed by drugs. I'm talking about things like values and beliefs. I'm calling it psychology because I don't know what else to call it; pe
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by smaddox 10y ago
Asset markets are a poor choice for studying "accurate shared beliefs". They're an excellent choice for studying groupthink, though. The whole premise that people arrive at accurate shared beliefs is rather extraordinary to b
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by smaddox 10y ago
I generally agree with your views. I think a large part of the problem is that we've all been (self) deluded into thinking technology can solve all our problems. The older I get, the clearer it becomes, though, that the root of all our
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by smaddox 10y ago
Yes, my mistake. Kronecker is used often in quantum mechanics, but when working in Hilbert space rather than real space.
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by smaddox 10y ago
> Every differentiable function is continuous! Under who's definition? The Heaviside step function is discontinuous, but it's derivative is usually considered to be the Kronecker delta function. Both of these are used extensive

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