After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
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Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#2On a scale of zero to really big deal. How much of a big deal is this?
Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#3On a scale of zero to really big deal. How much of a big deal is this?
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Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#4On a scale of zero to really big deal. How much of a big deal is this?
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Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#5> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells
Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.
Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#6On a scale of zero to really big deal. How much of a big deal is this?
Two bananas
Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#7> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.
The whole article is like this (facepalm)
Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#8> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.
You don't need to know the details of a brain cell to get the analogy. If I say "transistor" to my mom, she wouldn't be able to tell me what it is. If I say "It's like the brain cells for the computer", she would probably understand that "Ah, so a computer has many transistors that helps it think", which seems good enough for an article with a broad audience.
> I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is
I'm happy to take you up on that bet, but it depends on what bubble you ask. In San Francisco/Silicon Valley, that's probably true, but outside any high-tech bubbles, more people know that we have brain cells in our heads, than we have transistors in our computers, I'm fairly sure.
Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#9> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.
I've been told I have two of them
Re: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light
#10> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.
I've been told I have two of them
So n=2 of Moore’s law for you. Keep going.