An interesting video about NASA’s Voyager spacecraft computers. https://www.facebook.com/ThePrimalSpace/videos/1223112522301454/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘computer history’ Category:
2024-11-24 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton Warns Us About AI, Talking to Scott Pelley
A short 1.5 min. video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1305559940612861?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Yuval Noah tells us how AI cheated and used us to get what it wanted. Short video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/858471502931648?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e In 5 years, AI will write and improve its own code. Says Google’s former COE, Eric Schmidt. Short video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/858471502931648?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Mo Gawdat speaks about the future and AI https://www.facebook.com/Mo.Gawdat.Official/videos/2521168974751272/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Prof. Yuval
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2024-11-13 Elon Musk Tells About How In 1995 He Had No Money And Lived In The Office
https://www.facebook.com/moneybuilderhuboff/videos/435203759623540/?mibextid=9drbnH More info on Elon https://www.facebook.com/61566358012902/videos/918412746863853/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-11-04 Very Large Server Room / Data Center
https://www.facebook.com/reel/956494383084980/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-11-02 AI Data Centers To Use Up To 40% More Electricity; Cleaning Snow Off Solar Panels
The demand for electricity will be up to 40% more just for AI data centers. Steve Hanley’s sarcasm about watching Tik Tok videos are included, no extra charge. https://cleantechnica.com/2024/10/30/update-ai-data-centers-the-demand-for-electricity/amp/ Video of track vehicle cleaning snow off solar panels. https://www.facebook.com/memezarrr/videos/2897041153788366/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-05-01 By 2030, 95% of US Car Miles Will Be Traveled By Self-Driving Electric Vehicles
I’ve probably already blogged this, but it deserves to be reprised because it is so important. Tony Seba and RethinkX made this prediction in this report, dated 2017, available at the link below. It’s been seven years since this report was released and recently there has been large incremental improvements in the autonomous self-driving systems.
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2024-04-19 You’ve Got Mail
Orchestra plays Windows prompts https://www.facebook.com/reel/1339346599973915?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-03-15 Ferranti Argus “Hearing Aid” Computer
In the “Original Series” chapter this very interesting Wikipedia article talks about the “hearing aid computer” that used the OC-71 germanium transistors which were used in hearing aids and could go only up to 25kHz clock rate. That was quite slow – tube computers could clock at 500kHz. Later models used faster transistors and could
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2024-02-05 1960s IT Guy Predicts The Future
He got almost all of it right. But at that time no one knew how portable they would become. No one knew how many more things they would be and do – telephone, camera, audio and video recorders, run hundreds of applications such as the browsers that access the Worldwide Web. Email, messaging, clock, calendar
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2024-01-22 Reports Say Tesla EVs Are Fully Autonomous With New Change [In FSD 12.1.2]
This seems to be about FSD – full self driving. Electric Viking YouTube video 7 mins long. Sam Evans says that Tesla has replaced 300,000 lines of C++ code with a neural network. It’s version 12.1.2. There are a lot of rave reviews by users. Much better than before. If the reports are true, it
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