Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies

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• FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Finally, we can have sci-fi future that is just weird, rather than dystopian.

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  • MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure what to think about that a CNN is involved in the reading process.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a way to infer the data without having to create some human engineered and fragile detection method.

      The problem of dealing with unreliable signal transmission (i.e. a CNN’s error rate at inferring the data based on their imaging) is well explored. A CNN that fails to correctly read some measurable percentage of time is not much different than a wireless data transmission on a noisy channel.

      You solve the problem by encoding the signal so that you can check the data as it comes in to discover and correct for errors. A simple example would be writing the data 3 times so that you could compare the inference on each of the 3 places where the data is written. Modern error checking algorithms can do a lot better than this, space-wise.

      CNNs can be trained to have a very high accuracy rate on these kinds of image recognition tasks (especially with a limited symbol set) and they can tune their error correction around the CNN’s error rates so the net result would be a clean and error check and corrected output.

      Not to mention that CNNs may not be required of future persons with better imaging technology.

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    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CNN as in “Central News Network” or “Convoluted Neural Network”?

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Reminds me a bit of this older “breakthrough” petapixel.com/…/new-5d-disc-storage-can-store-500…

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Microsoft Team cites Yuhao Lei, the researcher behind your article, 3 times - regarding the techniques of writing in different types of silica incl. polarization. So yes, it’s the continuation of the breakthrough.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Holographic Storage” - en.wikipedia.org/…/Holographic_Data_Storage_Syste…

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s for archival of data that needs to be stored for thousands of years, not for consumer use.

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  normal priced hard drive pls

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• MetalSlugX@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Weird bow Microslop hasn’t lie-boasted about quantum computing in a year.

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