Facebook deleted the accounts of seven surveillance-for-hire surveillance organizations in several countries. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-facebook-instagram-journalists-activists-targeted/
Archive for the ‘computers’ Category:
2021-11-20 Intel’s Plan Could Restore US Manufacturing
Longish story about Intel, new chips and new fab plants. New processes and new chip packaging methods. New processor series names. https://www.cnet.com/features/intels-chip-recovery-plan-could-restore-us-manufacturing-prowess/
2021-10-26 AI Replaced By Human Drivers – M $ Idea
Dojo whitepaper released by Tesla. Most people have little concept of what AI is; the myths that surround it are masking its abilities. The ironic thing is that we see huge amounts of money go into making a computer that will emulate a human, yet there billions of humans around who could do the same
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2021-09-20 Chip Shortage And Auto Makers
Rob Maurer’s Tesla Daily episode https://youtu.be/m8TMPbUgpBU About car makers in general, Rob said, “These companies want things to stay the same. They want to take the path of least resistance, and that is continuity. … Those results are visible now as these companies work through the chip shortage.” Tesla is faced with the same logistics
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2021-09-11 Climate Change Games
A way to introduce climate change to young folks. https://www.fastcompany.com/90671510/the-new-hot-theme-in-gaming-climate-change
2021-09-04 Tesla Chip Shortage Solutions
Tesla has developed a workaround for the microcontroller chip shortage. They developed 19 variations of controllers by changing the hardware and software. You can read the text of the video in the description. https://youtu.be/B8b73Zsnn5A
2021-08-27 Photonic Computer Beats Moore’s Law
Interview with Lightmatter CEO. Light guides inside of the chips replace ‘wire’ conductors. Mostly for replacing GPUs in Neural Networks for AI. https://youtu.be/t1R7ElXEyag
2021-05-07 Tesla Full Self Driving Later
The AI or machine learning or whatever has to be trained and that’s based on accumulated miles / kilometers. If the training is in its early stages then it stands to reason that it’s capable of only lower level 2. I thought that’s what the Dojo project was supposed to do, but what has that
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2021-05-03 IBM Daisywheel Current Loop To IBM Serial Adapters
Bill Sherman What’s the current loop sender do? Convert RS-232 to current loop? I had to connect up the old IBM-XTs and ATs to the IBM daisywheel printers from Displaywriters. The XTs and ATs with ISA bus had a serial adapter card that supported current loop on the normally unused pins of the bottom row
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2021-04-01 RINs and NFTs
I was reading about RINs or Renewable Identification Numbers on Wikipedia here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Identification_Number And it said that since RINs can be bought and sold, there has been RIN fraud. Lately there has been talk of NFTs or non-fungible tokens in the newsmedia and I thought that since these have the ability to uniquely identify something,
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