AI uses a lot of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) which is optimized for throughput, not latency. You are right, it's generally not something you would use for main RAM, it's for GPUs.

CXMT is already making DDR5. It's not the fastest, but it works. Hopefully output can ramp up really fast.

We have samples for 3 asteroids, not just one.

Hayabusa (2010)
Hayabusa 2
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The CNSA has Tianwen-2 currently at 469219 KamoÊoalewa, with sample return scheduled for next year.

It's the classic Japanese fig leaf. Technically they don't have aircraft carriers either, they have "helicopter destroyers" that look exactly like aircraft carriers, complete with a runway and naval jets.

But there is still a lot of opposition to both nuclear weapons and having a military that isn't purely defensive. Aside from the history of the military causing huge disasters for Japan, people see that other countries tend to get swept up in US military adventures, and don't want that.

The conservatives talk a lot about needing a stronger posture with North Korea and China nearby, but I think really what they want is a lucrative weapons industry. Japan has the technology and industrial base, but for political reasons companies there don't get involved in offensive weapons.

Due to climate change we will have to at least start switching the type of trees we plan to ones more suited to extremes of temperature, and higher averages. I don't know if it will be hemp, but probably something will have to change.

I don't think that's the goal of this project. This is more about being able to prove that the original file is genuine, say for legal reasons or so that a journalist can verify it with the person who took it. It's not for verifying social media copies.

Besides, nobody has managed to make a robust perceptual hash. It would be huge if someone figured it out.

Maybe Chrome should be a government run open source project. Non profit but well funded. Dedication to standards compliance. More modular architecture so that all the Google specific stuff like sync can be swapped out at runtime and people have a simple, easy choice of provider.

The market will be flooded with used hardware when the big AI companies start to go bust or sell off their older hardware that is being replaced. It will have had a hard life in a server rack, but stuff like RAM rarely fails due to age or use, and even consumables like SSDs are often for consumers if they are enterprise grade with 5% life left. I've been using some old Intel server SSDs with 5-10% life left for years, for bulk temporary storage.

At this point computer storage is a national security issue and a huge economic problem for governments.

You continue to be without insight. Nothing new.

Exactly. Which is why a lot of his stories are about how the three laws fail.

Also note that any actual implementation of the three laws requires AGI and we do not even know whether that is possible. We certainly have no approaches that could realistically lead to it, despite what some people hallucinate. It is not a question of throwing more computing power or data at the problem. We are missing some key ingredient.

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22. Turning the US into a Kakistocracy.

Trump lost a lawsuit in the UK against some off-shore wind visible from one of his golf parks. Since then he (and the MAGAs) hate off-shore wind. No rational reasons, just mindless hate by total losers. The less dumb ones try to find "arguments", but it is all lies.

The reason you do off-shore wind is that it is not intermittent. It can have very rare and entirely predictable non-wind situations, but in practice these are comparable to other forms of power generation. On-shore wind is different, unless it is high-wind. If you go high enough, on-shore wind becomes reliable as well. There are some experiments running in Europe for that.

DT is exceptionally stupid. He has savant syndrome and can do two things well: Turn people about as stupid as he is into loyal cult followers and escape being held responsible for his crimes. And that is basically it. And I would like to point out that the second is probably due to him being born rich.