Give me 1 accomplishment/work experience/training that she has that qualifies her and word 'security' in the same sentence, let along emerging technology.
According to her bio she holds a Master's degree in Security. Is that enough to satisfy your requirements?
Steve of Gamer's Nexus: "The 14600K's 33.6 Watt hour result has it only barely more efficient than the 14900K and less efficient than the 7700x at 31.1" You didn't bother to listen to the video, did you?
You are talking about the efficiency in terms of power to complete a fixed unit of work for two distinct processors. The 14600K completed the render using more power in less time.
You do know energy is measured in Watt hours and not Watts, right? Gamer's Nexus was measuring energy efficiency not power.
The result showed a minor loss in the numbers when divided, which means the 14600K operating in the configuration it was, was less efficient than the 13600K at performing the task.
So you admit the graph shows the 14600K was less efficient than the 13600K and the 12600K? And?
The fact that the graph you're showing doesn't demonstrate efficiency between generations is evident by the fact that the 13900K and the 13600K have wildly different efficiencies, as does the 12900K 12600K or indeed the 14700K vs 14600K. The results showed provide you *no* conclusions about generational changes, they only show you comparison between parts on a given workload.
The graph shows the same the mid-tier class of Intel CPU, the 14600K, was less efficient than its predecessors. Comparing a processor to other tiers is like comparing two wrestlers of different weight classes; you can make a comparison but being in different tiers puts a huge asterisk on them.
That is it. Don't read into things what isn't there.
Hardware Unboxed: "it doesn't deserve to be called a 14th generation--sorry, I mean "generation" . . . for the most part this was a compete waste of time .
JayzTwoCentz: "I see a lot of memes of people talking about going from 13th gen to 14th gen . . that's a reall dumb move."
Tom's Hardware: "The Core i5-14600K only brings 100 extra MHz of E-core boost clocks to the table, and that isn't enough to make a substantial difference to its competitive positioning, either. The previous-gen 13600K has been on sale for as low as $285, or roughly $35 less, muddying the water for potential upgraders. "
Anandtech: "Even with the Core i5-14600K priced at $319, there are no actual performance benefits compared to the previous generation Core i5-13600K; the only difference is a 100 MHz bump to E-core boost clock speeds. At the time of writing, the Core i5-13600K can be bought on Amazon for $285, a saving of $34, which is essentially the same processor; users could opt for that route and save a little bit of money."
So all of these reviewers are reading into things that aren't there. Or they all arrive to same conclusion that the 14th gen is not really an upgrade to the 13th gen.
If you actually need this explained to you, you are either painfully naive or willfully ignorant. A foreign student attending the prestigious English school and then being a postdoc at another prestigious US university isn't something poor people get to do.
1) I think you are confusing the idea that prestigious schools can cost a lot money sometimes with the reality that is not always true in every case. 2) Again do you know what merit is? You are absolutely sure than she did not receive a scholarship, fellowship, etc. 3) You do know that things like student loans exist, right?
Some of my TAs at university were international students. None of them came from money. They got scholarships; they got grants.
The very point of those institutions is elite reproduction. (If you need the term "elite reproduction" explained to you, go read the wiki.) Her involvement with the effective altruism movement --a movement explicitly about providing moral cover for rich people to be as greedy as they want do to an unrealized and unenforceable promise to be generous later to people who helpfully don't actually exist rather than being altruistic to actual, real human beings now-- only further indicts her.
And what does your unhinged rant based on speculation on top of your perception have to do with any of this?
Her father is Dr Mark Toner
Citation needed.
She is 100% a nepo-baby. A fact that was obvious to everyone else at first glance.
Sure. She has multiple degrees from multiple universities. To you it must be because she's a nepo-baby. Even if Mark Toner is her father that does not mean that her family wealth paid for any of her education.
Intel has not released a new CPU that was *less* efficient. It may not be more efficient. It may not be more efficient, it uses more power for the performance, but that doesn't make it "not efficient compared to previous generations".
What kind of doublespeak is this? If we look at the current generation of Intel CPU 14600K compared to 13600K and 12600K they require more power to achieve the same work.. That is by definition, less efficient.
From Australia, Oxford, Georgetown... Yeah, it's a safe bet that family has wealth.
Have your heard of something called merit? She did research at Oxford and works for Georgetown. Please explain how that indicates family wealth as opposed to merit. That is why Kim Kardashian gets all sorts of research grants at Cambridge: family wealth.
I don't know anything about Ms. Toner but anytime i hear 32 year old board member of a multibillion corporation I would usually give good odds it comes down to "my parents are big shots somewhere and I've been given every networking opportunity my entire life". Could be wrong and maybe it was totally grit, moxie and hard work but I bet I am pretty close.
Or we could use Google to look up her background instead of rampant speculation. Her wikipedia article notes work and research in AI at the University of Oxford and her current role at Georgetown University. While that does not preclude any nepotism, I could not find any reference to family wealth in her native Australia.
it's very likely that the missing person's cell phone is no longer working
You are assuming the person did not have enough sense to put their phone in standby or airplane mode and used it sparingly to attempt a signal. They could also power down the phone as well to save battery.
Yes currently, but you need to understand what MS is doing here. They are releasing a whole lot of features that are for no reason what so ever tied to Snapdragon X right now.
Again, the upscaler is tied to Qualcomm hardware which is the whole point of the article. That is one of the more important limitations. This is not like a feature like FSR which works on AMD, NVidia, Intel GPUs. Even Apple's MetalFX is believed to be based on FSR.
This is being done specifically to help push some Surface Laptops out of the door and bolster their claim that the Surface Laptop is better than an Macbook.
MS claim whatever they want; that does not make it so. As far as upscaling is concerned, MS is two years behind Apple as MetalFX upscaling was announced in June 2022.
The reality is all of this was announced previously and works on any architecture / GPU.
Ummmm no. The article clearly says "Only supports Qualcomm Snapdragon X and Windows 11 on Arm (24H2 or newer), for now. The PC must also support Copilot+." Are you just ignoring those stated limitations? Even if MS can may someday get this work on GPU hardware other than Qualcomm, the CoPilot+ requirement of a NPU over 40 trillion operations per second further limits what hardware can be used. Not all previous hardware had NPUs much less ones that could perform at over 40 TOPS. The Snapdragon X is one that does. Apple's latest neural engine performs around 38 TOPS.
As was Copilot+ and Recall, etc which also is right now completely arbitrarily linked to only hardware available in their Surface devices and with a quick hack can be enabled on other devices.
And you are assuming that these limitations are "arbitrarily linked". Maybe there is limitation due to hardware performance. There is only so much that can be done to get around hardware requirements.
Only one month ago someone demonstrated AutoSR running on an Intel I7 laptop with a RTX 4070 using a Windows Canary build and showed a 10-20fps increase in Baldur's Gate 3, and curiously an incompatibility with the screenshotting tool.
1) Getting something running is not the same as it running well. 2) RTX4070 is the current generation of NVidia GPUs and most likely that laptop had the latest Intel CPUs which has a NPU. Previous generations of hardware may not work at all.
Give it a few months, and when the tempted hype of the new Surface announcements is over this upscaler will be released for all systems.
Again while MS can get this to work on newer and current hardware, their success is limited to specific hardware.
This is in fact one of the most likely to succeed upscalers. The whole reason for moving to the likes of DirectX originally was that each vendor's damn custom requirements made making games too difficult.
The way I read the article, this upscaler requires Qualcomm GPUs just like DLSS requires NVidia GPUs. If that is true then it will be highly successful only for Windows on ARM devices made by MS. Windows on x86 using Intel, AMD, or NVidia GPUs will not use this upscaler. Any OEM wanting to make a Windows on ARM device has to use Qualcomm GPUs to use the upscaler instead of being able to pick their own.
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