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Comment Engineering is only part of it (Score 2) 81

Right now, Boeing's problem is QA/QC. What they need is a CEO with *SOME* engineering experience but who has a specialty focus and whose primary experience is with ISO/TC184/SC4 and maintaining quality standards, and production speed be damned. You can be an engineer all day long and still fail as a CEO because you don't understand the standards and regulations applicable to your industry. If the new CEO does not understand the QC side of things, it won't matter if they're an engineer, this fiasco will repeat itself.

Comment Re: Performance per Watt (Score 1) 65

Why? Search algorithms are enormously efficient and easily parallelizable, and what you can describe can be divided into stages and pipelined as well.

You also don't know all that many people, maybe a hundred, maybe a thousand tops. Even sequentially going through a list of all the external characteristics you know about a thousand people is sheer triviality for a modern computer. The dataset would be small because you're not trawling through petabytes of data but looking through already digested and organized information.

Comment Re:GPU does what? (Score 4, Informative) 65

Everything works better when specifically designed for the application. A CPU can render in software, but a GPU does it better. A GPU may mine crypto well, but an ASIC designed for crypto and nothing else will do a much better job.

AI turns out to have some quite specific needs that GPUs don't ideally satisfy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment You don't need that much hardware (Score -1, Offtopic) 95

Each digit is one byte. 105 terabytes is easy enough to get on consumer hardware with 6 spinning rust drives and you only need them for writing - at SATA-III speeds the best spinning rust is ~500MB/s, so ~60 hours to fill up that much data. To calculate, you just need a simple machine that does the 22/7 calculation and has just enough space for holding results to two digits and continuing to divide by 7 each successive iteration on that enough times to keep that bandwidth requirement met.

Leave it to math nerd to not understand what hardware they truly need. 75 days and petabytes of storage when proper thinking and planning and understanding of the basic requirements would have been so much cheaper. They should have used first principles this whole process and obviously failed to do so.

Comment Re:Yes, but still a dead end (Score 1) 77

"Please tell me which company can make the lenses that EUV machines use"

None, because EUV gets absorbed by pretty much everything, so they use mirrors in a vacuum.

"They cannot make the EUV machines. They cannot make the parts to build the EUV machines."

I've been there, you've obviously not. They have anything and everything they need, and if they do not, stealing it and copying it and understanding it and improving upon it is right around the corner - espionage runs rampant now days.

Comment Re:Yes, but still a dead end (Score 1) 77

"How will a Chinese company make EUV equipment under sanctions when entire countries not under sanctions cannot make EUV machines?"

They 100% have the industrial capability to make the stuff themselves. Literal districts are dedicated to specific technologies, there's even one dedicated directly to semiconductors (as in literally 'Semiconductor District' is in the physical address.) They simply lack the knowledge to build the experimentation and expertise levels up. That's all they need to steal. Meanwhile, most other countries both lack an industrial base and an academic base, so they're non-starters from the get-go.

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