An old "solution" to this was grammar schools, to pick off the keen students, or streaming when a comprehensive school (open to kids of all abilities) split the classes into three streams per subject by ability; alternatively smart/thick kids with rich parents could go to private schools and then run the country. Or one year my teachers just put me in a desk in the corridor and gave me a text book... (this doesn't really scale well).

And yet TensorFlow and PyTorch both have support for iOS - Edge AI machine learning was a buzzword recently and they can certainly soak up CPU cycles and RAM!

Yeah and as soon as you run any decent sort of processing on it it throttles down to 10% speed because of overheating. You can kind of cheat by pointing a desk fan at it but i'm not sure it helps the lifespan!

How many iPads these days have spinny disks instead of SSD?

Photogrammetry (turning a series of hires images into a decent sized point cloud or a 3d mesh) traditionally laughs at 5GB and some of that code is written in real programming languages (FORTRAN) instead of scripting languages (C#, JavaScript, Python), although some of the projects are based on a Jenga tower of libraries. And yet apple google and microsoft are apparently bundling this sort of thing into newer versions of their libraries (yay). Machine learning also is a way of soaking up VRAM. Also I believe video games are available for the iPad. But I agree that audio sample libraries could stick to SSD if needed rather than RAM.

And whether "tabling" a motion means proposing it or abandoning it.

Writing one in BASIC on an 8-bit computer back as a kid in the 1980s sure was not the most efficient method! But a fun way to spend a couple of hours, but some people took it way further e.g. fractint. As for the scaling, is DLSS much different than throwing the image through a few layers of a neural network, i.e. a few giant matrix multiplies separated by non-linear functions to prevent them from collapsing? That process makes the effort a fixed amount dependant on the number of screen pixels (and the DL model), not related to empty areas or detail or number of polygons like IdanceNmyCar is suggesting, which I would think is better done in Software than in Hardware.

Getting joysticks with a radio range longer than one metre would be a great improvement. It is very annoying if you are 1.5 metres from the base and your character just starts running left over a cliff, or takes half a second or a second to respond to a button press on the left controller.

Flying over USA you can see it is pretty much wilderness and a few long straight roads, all the way from Winnipeg to the suburbs of Los Angeles unless you get to see Las Vegas (Russia is just trees and snow too, but without the straight roads). And every american owns two Humvees, so they should have a huge advantage in keeping isolated from germ-carriers - huge spacious houses, cars instead of mass transit, self-sufficient in food; should be easy. On the minus side they think evolution is a communist hoax and diseases are spread by God losing favour in you for not giving enough money to rich people, so there are cultural factors...

We did this at University lecture theatres with Commodore 64s back in the 1980s. Quite good fun although a 320*200 screen makes for rather large pixels. We had to fill out some paperwork to call it a computer club.

So you think China will quickly outpace the USA then :-) thinking that sending your pastor more money so he can buy his fifth jet plane will make you lucky and rich is an American belief after all, along with thinking that all the money from increased productivity should go into the offshore accounts of corporations and billionaires instead of into research or education. Some countries choose nuclear physicists or chemists as leaders, others pick journalists sacked for making up stories, or reality show hosts.

Desert country? You do know the weather forecast for Kabul is -8 Celsius this Friday night whereas Reykjavik will only be -3 right? (next week it might be colder though). This time of year cooling will not be such a problem!

If I see soy chicken I would expect it to be chicken +soy as in the popular asian dish, not tofu!

Pro science? I thought this was a US based website!

How they operate is apparently to keep all their fresh goods in some central warehouse for a few weeks until the "meat" they sourced from some donkey slaughterhouse goes grey. Aldi meat may be 90% water but at least it is a named species and isn't off, but for organic grass-fed unicorn you have to stick with Waitrose. Tesco has reasonable cheese and yoghurt (since that is milk that has gone off) especially chai lassi coming up to diwali, so maybe plant based food will be a winner for tesco - they did sell Linda Macartney products which were very nice. I do note that our local bakery (not Greggs) always seems to have sold out of meat and has the vegan pasties and rolls left over so its main market seems to be "what DO you have ready then?"