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- Sat May 25, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Military & War
- Topic: Violence and Terrorism News and Discussions
- Replies: 468
- Views: 369756
86% drop in violence, burglary and car crime in England and Wales over 28 years
As the title says, you can read more in the linked article. As usual, 78% of polled people think crime in England and Wales has gone up and remains one of the biggest issues. https://theconversation.com/most-crime-has-fallen-by-90-in-30-years-so-why-does-the-public-think-its-increased-228797 https:/...
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:10 am
- Forum: Computers & the Internet
- Topic: GPU and CPU news and discussions
- Replies: 235
- Views: 133840
average Time Spy score for GPUs 2016-2023
Average Time Spy score of GPUs which people test has risen from about 5,000 in Q1 2016 to to about 14,000 in Q3 2023, that's 2.8x growth in 7 and a half years.
- Wed May 22, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: AI & Robotics
- Topic: AI alignment and ethics
- Replies: 41
- Views: 27435
Meta approves anti-Muslim AI-generated ads in India
We humans don't agree on how we align, so how can our digital progeny be aligned? We currently have no common alignment!
Some people predicted this.
Some people predicted this.
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: AI & Robotics
- Topic: AI & Robotics News and Discussions
- Replies: 922
- Views: 979613
weird priorities
I' ve been wondering : why no solutions for super-duper pressing societal and individual issues, horrible life-destroying debilitating illnesses, various problems and misfortunes, inequalities and more, but we are making these totally non-necessary generative AIs? Are we really going to be happier w...
- Wed May 22, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Home & Leisure
- Topic: Smartphones News and Discussions
- Replies: 61
- Views: 37714
my current touchscreen keyboard choice in Android 14
Here is my current virtual touchscreen keyboard choice (Gboard) for my Android smartphone:
It will probably be different in a few months.
I type this using voice. Most of this text is recognized incorrectly.
It will probably be different in a few months.
I type this using voice. Most of this text is recognized incorrectly.
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Computers & the Internet
- Topic: GPU and CPU news and discussions
- Replies: 235
- Views: 133840
Intel Xeon vs AMD EPYC
EPYC 4004 series are 4 to 16 cores CPUs for the AM5 platform, TDP 65 to 170 watts, clocked anywhere from 3.7 to 5.7 GHz, prices anywhere from 149 to 699 USD. As we can see, they seem to be significantly above current low-end Intel Xeon in performance, efficiency and value proposition. https://cdn.wc...
- Tue May 21, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: Computers & the Internet
- Topic: Computers & the Internet News and Discussions
- Replies: 240
- Views: 240715
open tabs in a browser VS system RAM
This single website uses between 310 and 330 MB (!!!) of RAM on my computer in Google Chrome browser: https://i.postimg.cc/4xGTqjG8/24-05-21-GSMArena-Apple-i-Phone-SE-comparison-2016-vs-2020-vs-2022.png I remember browsing WWW using Sony PSP with 32 MB of total RAM back in 2005. Or earlier using a P...
- Tue May 21, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: Biology & Medicine
- Topic: Aging & Longevity News and Discussions
- Replies: 314
- Views: 289468
making good decisions
I've been saying since the 2000s, that what we want and need is not robotic nurses, caregivers or more human nursing, but making our bodies better, longer-lasting, less frail, more enduring (in whichever ways work best). We don't want to just be sickly mammals relying on robots to care for us all th...
- Sat May 18, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Home & Leisure
- Topic: Smartphones News and Discussions
- Replies: 61
- Views: 37714
true smartphones performance, comparison to PCs, trends
As we know, smartphones are being gradually designed, engineered and produced to be faster and faster. 📱..↗️..↗️..↗️.. Real-world performance is a resultant of CPU speed, storage speed, memory speed, GPU speed, ASIC speed and all the latencies combined (bottlenecks are the worst). My observation is ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Biology & Medicine
- Topic: Biology & Medicine News and Discussions
- Replies: 638
- Views: 508111
Dean Kamen talking about his ambitious enterprises and projects
In this episode, recorded during Abundance360 2024, Peter Diamandis and Dean Kamen discuss future of organ manufacturing, Moonshots, and more: • 15:40 | Creating Organs for Life-Saving Results (in the coming years) • 25:10 | Custom-Made Organs Now Possible (needs regulatory approval and production f...