Future Timeline

From what I heard (don't know if that's entirely correct), Amdahl's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law for GPU scaling limits the justifiable and commonsensical core count to 131 072. This year, AMD is going to triple (!) their top-end compute units count from 5120 to 15360 (61.44 Tflo...

A popular rightwinger made a video describing and attacking transhumanism so his audience knows what it is and hates it. Concepts such as the singularity are getting more and more widespread as we get closer to it. I think both the hardright and left will oppose the development of singularity (left...

The longer I am listening to Isaac Arthur, the more I am convinced that I don't want to explore this Universe. I want to explore made up worlds, disregarding current laws of physics. They will be vastly more entertaining than what's there in galaxies. That's how I see it.

Intel's CPUs Linpack results in gigaflops (gflops) from 2013 to 2022. 13900K is supposed to be 40% faster than 12900K. Finally a mainstream 1 teraflop CPU. As you can see, performance grew 5x in 9 years since the introduction of AVX-2 instructions in Haswell microprocessors. Vertical axis is logarit...

Living in an unchanging world for a long time seems like like a recipe for boredom. MMORPGs for example release expansions and updates to change, expand their worlds somewhat, or change mechanics of the game even. Like for example killing goblins for 100 years would get tedious and repetitive. Or pl...

Looking at Fallout 76, do you really believe that Bethesda would make that ambitious of a game? Better prepare for a cashshop with clothes, armor, weapons and mounts. For me, the most important feature would be TES Construction Set.

I don't believe in fp64 zettascale in 2027. I do believe in int4 (AI inferencing, neural nets) zettascale in 2027 or 2028. Intel CPU roadmap: Q4 2021 - Q1 2022: Alder Lake (laptops are just coming out) Q3 - Q4 2022: Raptor Lake Q2 - Q3 2023: Meteor Lake 2024: Arrow Lake 2025: Luna Lake 2026: Nova La...

This chart shows show much interconnected can layers in a 3D chip be, depending on year and bump density. Currently 3D SoC are only beginning, because interconnect density doesn't even allow for cores on cores or cores on uncore. At best, we will see L3 Cache layered on top of CPUs this year, tripli...

Some chosen milestones in construction: 2nd millenium B.C. - first stone arch bridges 7th century A.D. - nearly 40m long stone arch bridges in China 14th century A.D. - 40 m long stone arch bridges in Europe 1779 - first iron bridge (England) 1829 - first glass roof 1849 - first over 300 m long susp...