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  1. He's finally dune it, he's finally made a video about sand. He shore has some interesting topics for videos.
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  2. You're a diamond in the rough Asianomettry. I shouldn't enjoy such dry topics and presentations but you make it work, I love these essays.
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  3. My uncle was diagnosed literally months before the cure was made available in a study his doctor managed to get him into. Saved his life.
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  4. "...a lucky guess that got a lot more publicity than it deserved." - Gordon Moore.
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  5. Wow the first ever recall they gave you a signed letter, went to your home to pick it up and left a courtesy car. Fixed the issue and returned it with a full tank and car wash??? WTF That type of service feels unheard of today.
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  6. Just a note: it's not the quantity that keeps the viewers coming back, It's the quality. Don't run yourself into the ground. Do what works and we'll be fine. Thank you for the interesting content, be it what may.
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  7. When you are shopping in the supermarket with a empty stomach, you always bought more than what you can eat.
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  8. I hate how companies will spend obscenely huge sums of money to build a better add campaign, but they won't spend a penny more than they have to when it comes to delivering an actual quality product and will cut every corner they can get away with in production rather than just making a better product.
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  9. The ASML field engineer only makes between 90 and 110 grand a year and has to travel all the time, often on short notice (but at least the long flights are business class). The job is really tough on your body, with long hours of standing and moving heavy equipment. And you have to do it all in a clean room environment. But on the plus side, you get to work with the latest and greatest technology.
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  10. "In the world of sand sales, solid information is hard to come by" 😂😂😂
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  11. The fact that using a particle accelerator as a light source is being pursued as a more energy-efficient option is a little mind boggling.
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  12. I have an interesting experience with YKK. When I was in high school I lived in a town with a YKK production facility. The company sponsored an international exchange program where they sent students from Kurobe, Japan to America for a week. My family was lucky enough to be able to host one of these students and it was a great experience all around and one I’ll never forget
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  13. Sad to hear the lithography videos don’t seem to do well. They’re some of my favorites and I hope you can find time for a few more.
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  14. Sounds like you're alarmingly close to a burnout. Feel free to take a break or slow down uploads for as long as it takes. Your videos have a timeless quality to them where they remain extremely educational and interesting regardless of upload date. These are all incredibly broad yet deep topics and going at them solo at this rate and quality is already an impressive feat.
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  15. Denis Ritchie is an underappreciated legend of IT history, nice to hear his name mentioned here. He and Jobs passed away on the same month and of course Jobs got all the mentions and credits while Ritchie was barely mentioned at all. Thanks for this.
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  16. I bet you when it goes down there's always that one guy that screams "fuuuuuuccck."
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  17. this channel is always a source and never a drain
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  18. Dear Asianometry, Once again thank you for another well researched piece. If you believe DeBeers, then there is a difference between "synthetic" diamonds, and "Real Natural Organic" diamonds, and of course that is why they cost more. Unlike Gold, Diamonds are quite common. I remember when some decades back the South American diamonds came onto the market, huge numbers of them in good quality, however by geologic tendancy, they were all predominantly "yellow" as a result DeBeers created a campaign to convince consumers that yellow diamonds were inferior and not as good as African or Russian Diamonds ( their mines of course ).
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  19. "The silicone carbide chips are placed inside a crucible, where they are subjected to high heat and McCarthyist accusations." Line delivered stone cold.😂
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  20. I really like the added humour you threw into the mix with the weird analogies and the more laid back tone throughout the video. Excellent content as always :)
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  21. "Semiconductor manufacturing is literally black magic. All of this just barely works, man." My favorite quote of this episode.
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  22. Misread that as “what’s next for asmr” and I was prepared for some hard hitting analysis of an entirely different kind of
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  23. 19:02 - "Hitachi -- maker of the Hitachi Magic Wand" They will never be able to escape this image
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  24. It's sad, I live probably twenty minutes from the Bulgarian border, old enough to have been alive before the collapse of the eastern bloc and yet I had no idea that Bulgaria ever had such an industry or ever heard of it. This is very interesting.
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  25. “10 kF was thoroughly unnecessary…” reminds me of overhearing an Intel engineer at a pub in Hillsboro, Oregon about 1987 say something like “why would anyone need more than a 32 bit bus?!?” I was so flabbergasted at the narrow mindedness that I almost interrupted his rant.
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  26. I LOVE THE ASAINOMETRY YOUTUBE CHANNEL!!!
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  27. Cannot agree more. The covid pandemic has yet proven this when it was the manufacturing industries (biomedical, pharmaceutical and semiconductor) that saved Singapore economy when the service industries (retail, F&B, construction and tourism) were down in dumps..
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  28. I come for the semiconductor and microchip manufacturing knowledge, but I STAY for the MEAT KNOWLEDGE
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  29. On a related note, the Indian government JUST recently unveiled a major scheme to develop new fab units and a manufacturing ecosystem. As an Indian student looking forward to working in this field, this is exciting stuff!
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  30. It's surreal to see things that I remember as proof of concept research papers start to enter mainstream production.
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  31. Every school had access to many Pravetz computers, students were basically studying programming since 1st grade. We had easy access to literature on programming, computer graphics, VLSI chip design. And then suddenly in 1989-1994 everyone that knew anything about semiconductors and software emigrated to the USA, Germany and other countries. Massive sudden brain-drain. Microsoft's Windows kernel is afaik developed by hundreds of those engineers. During those years at least 1 million people emigrated. From 9 million population it suddenly went to 8 million, and it's now 6.4 million. I also emigrated later, since there were almost no jobs in software or hardware design in the entire country.
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  32. You know that FPGAs are magic when they seem even more mystifying and baffling the more you learn about them
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  33. Zhivkov, as the true tech enthusiast that he was, has a very famous quote on the day of the opening of a new semi-conductor factory: "This year a semi-conductor factory, next year a full conductor factory!"
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  34. LoL, can you imagine asml doing youtube sponsorships? "Next time you're setting up a fab, consider asml" as though they were a meal delivery or vpn service. Hahaha.
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  35. I lived in South Korea for a year, and yes the street food vendors were all operated by elderly women. Very nice and the food was tasty, but yeah the competition between them was stiff and their prices were quite low.
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  36. I work here at ASML in logistics as a team lead. It's an amazing place to make a career and the technology here is incredible
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  37. Thank you for taking the time in your life to purchase these journals, do this level of research and present information in an rather unbiased way, newsletter is worth the sub.
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  38. What an interesting contrast to POSCO, South Korea's attempt at building up an indigenous steel industry. It was initially predicted to be an expensive failure but ended up producing steel at competitive prices and ended up supplying Korean industrial sectors such as automobiles and construction.
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  39. This episode oozes all the things that makes Asianometry great. Expert, deep, quirky, silly, and interconnected.Thank you for what you do!
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  40. I hope you do a multipart series on AMDs history. It is truly fascinating. There are as many bold moves as there are instances of jeopardizing the company out of an insistence on treating employees like team members rather than consumables. That AMD survived from 2008 to 2014 is surreal in it's own right, and the comeback after that is even wilder.
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  41. My father ran a product development consultant company for 30 years. He said that depending on the size/maturity of the customer the project budget would go from 80% design 20% testing for small/new customers to 20% design 80% testing for large/mature customers. Seems like chip design is no different.
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  42. When working on outlining a writing project, I thought I'd give GTP4 a try as a writing assistant and sounding board. It was very impressive at first. I essentially just gave it all the outline material I'd worked on so far, and then I was able to have it give me summaries as I worked to connect all my points together. It was essentially remembering everything I'd come up with for me, completely uncluttering my mind and allowing me to focus on specific points with a lot more ease. And then I could ask it to take what I'd just done and suggest connections with the rest of the outline. It made working almost obsessingly easy. Then I tried to ask it for suggestions of points to add, way to tackle certain questions, etc. I could ask for historical references (which I would double-check), point out possible logical fallacies, etc. I was very impressed. And then I I started to realize how all of it was turning out to be an echo chamber of my own thoughts, and while some material GPT provided me with was indeed very useful, much of it was also just my own thoughts rehashed in a way that made it a bit harder to spot, especially in the middle of a creative momentum. So yeah, super interesting, but major caveats. Whoever uses such tools should remain wary.
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  43. Maker of the wand... they never living that down.
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  44. I've seen this kind of mentality seep into regular people too, who probably aren't really into hanfu or the whole idea of han supremacy. When I went with my mainland friends to eat at a xinjiang restaurant, they detested the idea and thought the style of cooking was ridiculous, saying "this is minority food" or "this is not the way to cook".
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  45. Arguably cooler to have a manufactured diamond, anyone can just find one, manufacturing one is way more of an achievement
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  46. A key moment in the development of Linux was when IBM adopted it for use on its computers, sometime around the year 2000. It was a brilliant move by IBM, which then had a much bigger reputation than today. IBM's stamp of approval made a lot of people more willing to consider Linux, and strengthening Linux helped to undermine both Sun and Microsoft.
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  47. I started my professional programming career on Wang mini-computers. It was a much faster platform to program for than IBM systems at the time. Spent seven years on Wangs and watched them crash. I was fortunate to meet Dr. Wang at one point. They did breakthrough stuff with relational databases and that lead me to become a database specialist for the remainder of my career.
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  48. It always blows my mind how complex these machines are, how many technologies and innovations that has devoloped over decades to reach this point. Probably the most complex thing humans have ever constructed.
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  49. My father worked for CDC at the time Cray was working on the 8600. Cray wasn't keeping HQ up to date as to how things were progressing. They were progressing very slowly. Norris sent my dad, who he knew was a laconic, hardheaded type like Cray, to take a field trip to Chippewa Falls to ask Cray how things were going. That was an inspired decision as Cray spilled the beans, the 8600 was unlikely to ever work due to cooling and reliability issues. Dad borrowed some of my facsimile paper, a paper coated with toxic but conductive metal powder. If you apply current to the paper you can do a crude analog simulation of heat flow. The flow lines didn't look promising. My dad brought the bad news back to Norris and he quickly wound down the 8600 project, and that prompted Seymour to leave CDC.
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  50. Camera lenses got better because designers could simply let the software run random variations of the lens over and over again to find a better design, the more compute power the more variations you can try and the more likely it is the find a better design. Modern smartphone camera lenses are so ridiculously complex, each element basically has a radial wavy surface that make no sense but somehow focus the light just the right way at the end with minimal aberrations.
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