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The US is the second largest textile exporter in the world. Sources: https://ncto.org/facts-figures/us-textile-industry/ and https://www.trade.gov/selectusa-textiles-industry It's …

> Can you provide the source? In the WTO's broader medical goods category, Germany actually exported slightly more than the US in 2022 ($202.6 billion versus $189.6 billion), so su…

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Weights should not be 0 (at least not frequently) but in a ReLU-based neural network, activations are 0 pretty often. You're absolutely right about die area though.

Hardware engineer here. Special casing the multiply by 0 and multiply by 1 paths is harder than it sounds. In software, the cost of adding special cases is simply performance. You'…

Yes, but a car can't use electricity at 1 MV and converting the megawatt back to something lower than 1 MV still produces a lot of heat.

A mirror virus would not be able to infect normal cells. Viruses depend on (chiral) host cell machinery such as ribosomes to reproduce.

> Take a look at the structure of something like CMOS and you’ll see why running transistors in anything other than “on” or “off” is definitely not energy efficient. In fact, the t…

The main issue is that when objects spin really, really fast, they tend to explode due to centrifugal force. The tensile stress on a spinning round, homogeneous object is p * r^2 *…

You're ignoring the units of G. The gravitational constant has units N * m^2 / kg^2 = m^3 / (kg * s^2). That contains a length unit raised to the third power, which exactly balance…

Landauer's limit assumes that computation uses a thermodynamically irreversible process and erases bits of information. This is not necessarily true for all useful computers [0]. S…

To prove that it's possible to buy ads targeted on microphone audio. If this kind of targeting was really as widely available as the article implies, a journalist would be able to …

In my experience, there are a lot of applications that are "trivial" enough that PID works fine. I'm reasonably comfortable with state space modeling for systems with more variable…