Over the years it’s kind of becoming clear that “running major businesses” is kind of orthogonal to “having emotional integrity”. In larger businesses it’s mediated by layers. But just take a look at some of the deranged tweetstorms we’ve become used to in recent times.
A good scanning electron microscope costs at most a few million? And is pretty common in a decently funded lab pretty much anywhere? Resolutions of 5nm is not uncommon. A scanning tunnelling microscope can go much lower (single atom types) and isn’t all that much more expensive either (comparatively I mean).
I think it’s common knowledge by now that the smallest feature in a 5nm chip isn’t really 5nm. So that’s not (yet?) a viable strategy.
You mean you’d rather run unverified scripts using a good order of magnitude more resources with a slower experience and have an entire sandboxing contraption to keep said unverified scripts from doing anything to your machine…
I know the browser is convenient, but frankly, its been a horror show of resource usage and vulnerabilities and pathetic performance
The #1 reason the web experience universally sucks today is because companies add an absurd amount of third-party code on their pages for tracking, advertisement, spying on you or whatever non-essential purpose. That, plus an excessive/unnecessary amount of visual decoration.
The idea that somehow those companies would respect your privacy were they running a native app is extremely naive.
We can already see this problem on video games, where copy protection became resource-heavy enough to cause performance issues.
As one of those on the skeptical side, one train of thought I have not seen people even mention is, the way we’re using LLMs to code now is largely to use a less precise language (mostly English) to specify what’s often a very precise problem and solution. Why would we think that spoken language is the best interface for doing this?
I've actually found the opposite, it's easier to conceptually understand the continuous FT, then analyze the DTFT, DFT, and Fourier Series as special cases of applying a {periodic summation, discrete sampling} operator before the FT.
They already do offer that - it’s called a multi-project wafer or MPW. But it’s prohibitively expensive on a per-chip basis. It’s mostly used for prototyping or concept proving and not for commercial use.
One problem is, you need to create a photolithography mask set for any volume size of fabrication and those aren’t cheap. But that’s far from the _only_ problem with small volume.
Finicky chemicals and relatively expensive equipment. But he’s founded a company with Jim Keller. We occasionally see them post a photo with zero context, but we do know some things. Like they are targeting lots volume stuff and basically building fab equipment. But not much more.
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