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Laptops were for a while, but then stopped once they hit parity with desktops.
I don't think they ever hit parity with desktops, mainly due to thermal constraints. There's no way that a 15W laptop cpu can ever come close to a 95W desktop cpu in anything other than short term (comparison between a mid range desktop CPU (i5-9600K) and a high end laptop CPU (i7-8550U): https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-9600K-vs...
Probably the clearest chart that explains why machine learning is blowing up now, despite the fact that the same neural network architectures existed since 1990s (e.g., LeNet-5).
It's because cost dropped from $47,000 per GFLOPS to $0.02!!!
Laptops were for a while, but then stopped once they hit parity with desktops.
>once they hit parity with desktops. I don't think they ever hit parity with desktops, mainly due to thermal constraints. There's no way that a 15W laptop cpu can ever come close to a 95W desktop cpu in anything other than short term ( comparison between a mid range desktop CPU (i5-9600K) and a high end laptop CPU (i7-8550U): https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-9600K-vs...
Compare that to even 5 years ago where the costs of such a laptop was much higher.
Tech startup valuations, all contracting exponentially. Super cheap! Sorry I'll show myself the door.
Now WeWork is selling them for a nickel. The cost of everything is dropping like a rock! /s
Food (not the largest exponent, but probably the longest history)
Over hundreds or thousands of years, yes, definitely.
All that said, it seems like automation could push the cost of food to near zero in the coming decades.
To those that say DNA seq; although the cost to perform the actual sequence has dropped, there are still a ton of overhead costs in acquiring and managing any genomic data. Context - product platform guy at biobank.
Those two costs are what makeup the $1000/human genome stat, we don't factor in the human and consumables components
Earlier quoted context omitted.
the price of genome sequencing is no longer dropping exponentially. And when it was, it was heavily amortized across very expensive machines that masked the true costs.
Huh, didn't know this. Surely the cost of the machines has to be included somehow in the cost per basepair?
Many of the predictions about exponential genomics were done during a period of a few years where those misleading rates were published. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to engineer systems to deal with exabytes of genomics data, but there is no reason to do that, because there isn't that much data being produced/retained or that needs to be maintained on spinning platters of rust. Just another example of bio hype, unfortunately.
- Costs of delivering mass to orbit. - Nanotubes - Graphene - Internet costs (I'm pretty sure it's dropping faster than exponentially) - CDN and storage in general - Many medical procedures I expect meat prices to collapse in the next 10 years.
The astute reader will recall these are 'costs' not 'retail prices'
Tech startup valuations, all contracting exponentially. Super cheap! Sorry I'll show myself the door.