Kratzkopf
@Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
I love your enthusiasm! But as someone who works in semiconductor development, I feel a bit like it is time to abandon this branch of the technology tree for now again. Maybe I am just disheartened from the PhD stress, but where does it really lead to right now? Following up on Moore’s Law right now just seems to promise higher efficiency and lower electricity demands while actually that is mainly greenwashing attempt IMO (lower resolution technologies are more energy and resurce efficient when considering resource demand during production; high device density leads usually to increase of the number of transistors which are operated parallely, so while the single FET is more efficient in dynamic operation, the whole chip might have much higher leakage). At the same time this efficiency is used as justification to just increase the calculation load whithout considering if it is useful (e.g. LLMs). Resources might be better allocated for More than Moore/architectural approaches e.g. for neuromorphic computing to actually reduce the immense AI computing load coming up.
Sorry for the rant, I think I gotta quit my job.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
Amazing! Thanks for the reply.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 2 months ago:
Yes, I do not believe it. It must be a misprint, right?
- Comment on Dear Kevin 2 months ago:
Well, Kevin makes more sense to have gay sex with than Karen. At least if you are male.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 3 months ago:
There is different health implications connected to microplastics like infertility and cardiovascular diseases, although the connections are not quite understood yet. The amount of microplastics in the human body is very alarming though. A study with brain samples found 0.5w% of plastics, which corresponds to roughly 6g of plastic in a brain. That’s a credit card’s worth of plastic.
This article should give some overview over different findings and implications:
- Comment on Unholy curses 3 months ago:
They didn’t really get the importance of handwashing before the 1840s as far as I know.
- Comment on her favourite colour is blue :) 9 months ago:
If only they managed to actually meet each other through one
- Comment on Just a little guy 9 months ago:
It’s not the different places and times your body parts stop that kill you. It is the inflexibility of your connecting body parts inbetween?
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 10 months ago:
There is also this particular tone of light brownish green which is on so many industrial tools like drill presses, table top saws and so on. I kinda dig it
- Comment on But yes. 10 months ago:
Solar?
- Comment on Honey 11 months ago:
Yes, it is fascinating indeed, how applicable to many different actions and intentions that statement was. Thank you for pointing it out.
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 11 months ago:
What does the sound of crunching glass look like?