211–220 of 250 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)
Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.
To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.
To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
density would double every year I'm not a physicist, but I think they need to get smaller to do that.
Smaller transistors is one way to get more transistors per chip. Chips could also get bigger, or the transistors could be packed in more densely (my VLSI is rusty, but not all transistors are minimally sized; a wider transistor can be used to push more power for example).
I would like to propose "Grove's Axiom" which basically states: If you're failing, pivot to what your replacement will do before you fail. "In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, Grove posed a hypothetical question to his colleague Gordon Moore: “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Moore answered without hesitation, “He would get us out of memories.” To which Grove…
This reminds me of the advice: When deciding what to do, imagine that you are not talking to yourself but rather what you would tell someone else to do in your situation. This simple mental shift apparently removes a lot of cognitive biases and emotional baggage that might be affecting your decision making process.
The analytical knowing mind has to drag all this other stuff around!
I would like to propose "Grove's Axiom" which basically states: If you're failing, pivot to what your replacement will do before you fail. "In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, Grove posed a hypothetical question to his colleague Gordon Moore: “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Moore answered without hesitation, “He would get us out of memories.” To which Grove…
That's a pretty powerful axiom. I wonder how applicable it is to life in general. Relationship is failing (and you want to save it): what will their next partner do differently? Do it now! Worried you might be kicked off a sports team: what will the new player do better than you? Practice that! Imposter syndrome has you worried your boss will fire you: what will the replacement, the "real" person do that you aren't?…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading errata for Intel/AMD processors would be an eye opening experience then. There are so many bugs in features you never heard of, just like software. It is inevitable given the complexity.
I'm sure there are tons of bugs, I was told a few stories by people in aerospace industry. But I think they cannot survive if they don't keep the number ultra low, because they can't fix it (well except microcode level).
Q: In the age of Pentium, how do you pronounce IEEE-754? -- A: AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!
Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.
I sometimes make myself a mental list of famous people who are expected to die soon. The following people will all die in the next few years: Jimmy Carter (98), Henry Kissinger (99), Dick Cheney (82), Pope Francis (86), Paul McCartney (80), John Williams (91), William Shatner (92), and Ali Khamenei (83).
A huge one for me is Mel Brooks, it is pretty rare for a celebrity death to have an impact on me but that one will.
How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him. Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.