The article says why. The fall of the Roman empire being increasingly attributed to the migration of foreigners is both topical and problematic to certain ideologies
They brought back some questionable former managers like the guy responsible for 14nm, Sanjay Natarajan, which was the first process to get stuck with a protracted period of low yields.
Not to offend, but I think it has declined because this naming of Jr, III, and so on has come to be associated with poor or rural people. For what it’s worth, I have a relative who is a IV
I voted against it. California needs to fix its property tax problem. Raising property taxes, particularly instituting a land value tax, would require no new bureaucracy and would address the main cause of poverty in California, which is housing costs, by encouraging the highest and best use of land.
I do not like this at all. At best, we find that there are classes of problems that even AI cannot help much in solving, in the sense that the rationals are an infinitesimally small part of the reals. At worst, a fundamental result trivializes a problem whose complexity is a key component of a critical system, and there’s societal upheaval. If PhDs ran the government, and thought the latter, we might have already seen military attacks on data centers.
Amen, our fast food deliveries should only be made by humans with questionable immigration status in leased Priuses, and then only so efficiently that they forego bathroom breaks
It’s more fair to compare generations at the same point in their lives. In the latest NAR survey, first time homebuyers are now aged 40 on average. This compares to age 31ish in the 2000s, and late 20s in the 80s. So, I think Millennials are still relatively worse off, even if they’re nominally OK now.
I didn’t read but I’d also like to point out photonics are 1000x larger than leading edge electronics with minimal path to scaling smaller. I don’t see a free lunch
One nuance I don’t see expressed in TFP is that lobbyists are also knowledge experts, and their input can guide legislation positively. Sometimes, this expertise is too expensive for the government to otherwise obtain.
To answer the author’s question of why Chinese labs give away their work for less than cost, the answer is involution. China is struggling with overcompetition in other areas of its economy as well, such as electric cars, and perhaps ironically its labor share of income is substantially lower than the U.S.
I have a relative with several vending machines. He is also in a position of power at the location where they're placed. So yeah you'd be competing with a guy like that.
My elementary-aged kids call AI-generated content "slop" and actively ask me if some videos on Youtube are slop before watching them. I'm proud. I think they will be able to detect AI manipulated content far better than older generations.
Agreed, had a coworker come to this same conclusion and now only distributes CLIs. I think it’s solid as long as the decision tree of which tools do what is fairly simple. Perhaps MCPs were just overused before
I literally read this as human loop engineering. The next step would logically be to turn this into an agentic loop, and I imagine he does lots of that too.
A lot of that is the lack of SRAM scaling. There’s still quite a bit of improvements in the back end (metal traces). That aside, if foundries adopted say a 1T-1C SRAM we’d see a pretty rapid density doubling
Not a paleontologist but my 2 sons went through a dinosaur phase not long ago. It seems like the vast majority of known dinosaur samples come from the northern rockies.