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Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by x220 »

tw1010 wrote: post #39
njharman wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is how people are. We are not identical, interchangeable cogs. Most people can be trained to do simple things in most any field. But brilliance is innate. Its not learnt and can't be made through hard work. Some people have analytical minds some don't.

I'm pretty good at what I do, and when people tell me they're jealous of my talent, and kind of hint that it's innate, I get a bit insulted. I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound like I had it easy.

There are people who could work harder than you worked and not get to the point you are at.

Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by taneq »

tw1010 wrote: post #39
njharman wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is how people are. We are not identical, interchangeable cogs. Most people can be trained to do simple things in most any field. But brilliance is innate. Its not learnt and can't be made through hard work. Some people have analytical minds some don't.

I'm pretty good at what I do, and when people tell me they're jealous of my talent, and kind of hint that it's innate, I get a bit insulted. I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound like I had it easy.

> I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound like I had it easy.

Not at all, but you had it possible. There are plenty of people who are just not equipped to do whatever you do and will never be halfway competent, let alone pretty good at it, no matter how much training they receive.

We're all good at different stuff in different amounts. There's probably some stuff they can do which you can't, too. That's OK.

Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by atrus »

ilaksh wrote: post #65
sebringj wrote: post #5

Crazy genius. This is an example of someone born to do something.

One awesome project was called CastAR https://youtu.be/AOI5UW9khoQ . It didn't take off like porn or anything, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a really cool technology.

After the company folded, her and a few others bought all the ip and prototypes for cheap and are trying to restart it correctly.

Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by DoctorOetker »

brilliant,

but for

>Triboluminescence with household chemicals - Keep your eye on what happens when the battery falls over in this video.

I watched it over a couple of times, but never actually catch the battery fall over, the subject matter is constantlly grabbing my attention. at what time does it fall over?

Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by amaterasu »

Dangeranger wrote: post #21
platz wrote: post #16

What makes core memory resistant to EMP? Wouldn't the pulse change the polarizations stored in the iron cores? > The highly irradiated port-war landscape will be unable to make use of standard silicon computer memory for centuries to come. So we really couldn't use any silicon that was hit to make new semiconductors?

The author’s argument is that a highly irradiated landscape would be too energetic for silicon based memory to work as it’s now designed. I’m not an EE but I’ve spoken with some engineers of early silicon systems which had to account for high energy cosmic rays flipping the bits within RAM in a random fashion. My guess is that using a solution like Hamming codes would not work when retrieving arbitrary data at a larg…

Off topic, but with smaller lithography, ANY subatomic particle of sufficient energy becomes a problem: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp...

I've spent months chasing random crashes on another vendor's device which turned out to be solder ball alpha emission issues.

Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by msl »

std_throwawayay wrote: post #40
sitkack wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radiation hardness is different than sensitivity to EMP. It is the eddy currents from an EMPT that build up in and burn out small traces in micro electronics.

But magnetic cores are resistant to the M in EMP?

Drum memory [1] and hard disks [2] have been used in nuclear tipped missiles, which are supposed to operate in an environment where EMPs are expected. Both types use magnetism for storing data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC-15 (Titan II)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B (Minuteman I) (note that the hard drive was used as RAM)

Re: Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038

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Post by njharman »

tw1010 wrote: post #39
njharman wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is how people are. We are not identical, interchangeable cogs. Most people can be trained to do simple things in most any field. But brilliance is innate. Its not learnt and can't be made through hard work. Some people have analytical minds some don't.

I'm pretty good at what I do, and when people tell me they're jealous of my talent, and kind of hint that it's innate, I get a bit insulted. I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound like I had it easy.

It's not that you don't have to work hard if you have talent. It's that if you don't have the talent, no amount of hard work is going to make up for it.

There are so many people in the world, so much competition. That to be "top" performer in whatever field you have to 1) have innate talent, 2) work your ass off 3) get lucky.

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