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4 of 5 of the biggest tech company founders were in their early 20s. So the biggest ideas clearly slanted towards young visionary founders, but the statistics do skew back towards …

> When code is written only once and most of the cost comes afterward, that seems like an impossible choice to defend. > I can't imagine how anyone working on large code bases with…

Look, it sounds like your implying compute colocated storage in the analog properties of your system (which is exactly what a synaptic weight is btw), on top of using extremely low…

In an integrated system at 50 tops/watt? How are you going to even access memory at less than 20 fJ per op? Like, you're specifically trying to hide the catch here. If we were to t…

>Which existing neuromorphic computers achieve 10^14 ops/s at 20 W? If you compare them to GPUs, those "ops" better be FP32 or at least FP16. The comparison is of 3 bit neuromorphi…

Sure - I guess it's productive for me to answer why this doesn't disagree with my comment. By the time you get the software to hook up that kind of low bit precision (READ: neuromo…

> Yes, I totally agree. Yann LeCun, Geoff Hinton, Jurgen Schmidhuber and others did unpopular work for a long time. ... > Until then, I'll be ... rolling my eyes at brain analogies…

We certainly have enough compute at this point. 10^15 flops should be more than enough to run the brain by pretty much any analysis. Part of the issue is that evolution had at leas…

Yes! Sometimes you know that a solution will take a particular mathematical form, without knowing what the parameters will be. So you can write down a program (function) that can e…

Elon Musk hadn't started his simulation yet /s

I always come to these hyperloop criticisms expecting to find some sort of fatal flaw in the physics of energy efficient supersonic travel. But to my surprise, they instead tend to…

The 2016 Macbook Pro uses the "shallow" keyboard.

Their hardware is not the best anymore. Just visited the Palo Alto Apple store and I'm pretty sure a Microsoft Surface Tablet has a better keyboard than the new MacBook Pro. They r…

She has voting control, which is why she is still there. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2015/11/03/theranos-l...

Another interesting scenario is that Satoshi is working directly with Craig in order to lend his authority on the little/big-blockian debate to Craig. This would explain the mounta…