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by Tadasuke
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:/...
by Tadasuke
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.

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by Tadasuke
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.
by Tadasuke
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...
by Tadasuke
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:

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It will probably be different in a few months. ⌨️ 🙂
I type this using voice. Most of this text is recognized incorrectly. 🙁
by Tadasuke
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...
by Tadasuke
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...
by Tadasuke
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...
by Tadasuke
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 ...
by Tadasuke
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...