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  1. I was a tech for Wang assigned to the Chicago downtown team. it was the best company I've ever worked for. I've met Dr. Wang several times at Wang Institute Lawrence and several Pride in Service awards. The man was a genius and ahead of his time. I knew when he gave up the realm to Cunningham and his Fred, I knew it was time to go. I can recall my managers being dumb as heck except Jose and District Manager Rocco who I used to help when he was a tech. My mentor Dave Ros guided a rookie me. I met many good techs, the like of Lenny, this dude named Peterson, John R. O' Malley, William Pickett, Bob D, and many more I can only see their friendly faces on my brain but not their names. I was the primary tech for Harris Bank, Continental Bank, and Northern Trust Bank.
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  2. Ah Jon! Another episode that's not just a home run, but knocks it clean out of the park! The realization that an optical gate can't be smaller than the wavelength of the light it operates on puts everything into perspective. I'm hoping for an episode on the research on room temperature super conductors and their implications for chip making!
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  3. Damn, the topic is hard, but I greatly appreciate your skill at explaining it. Thanks a lot!
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  4. Maybe you could do a video on the history of antenna designs, ending with cellphones or satellites. I researched this a few years ago and was surprised to learn the size and shape of the antenna in the iPhone and how such antennas were developed.
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  5. I definitely remember seeing LSI Logic chips on all sorts of cards wondering what they did in the early 90s. I was perplexed because when I got into the industry in the mid 90s they were known for storage solutions. It's pretty clear now.
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  6. As a long time auto industry insider, I can say you have handled the discussion far better than most channels.
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  7. I hope you can cover more low key companies like TEL in the upcoming videos. It's amazing !
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  8. Is it just me or were the images super grainy?
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  9. I remember that in the 70s Taiwan also exported plastic toys, in fact it was printed on one such toy that I learned that there was a country called Taiwan.
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  10. This was so successful at the time, now Apple and Intel do it too with similar techs. good topic!
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  11. Reflection: The Asionometry team worked really hard and provided great content and amazing videos. The viewers had noticed the amount of effort and is reflected by the amount of views. We wish you all the best for the good, and a happy new year to you and the chat! 🥳
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  12. Indian viewer here. Love your channel!
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  13. Ellison, Gates -- you've outdone yourself in the pictures you chose for them. Nice job!
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  14. That's pretty strange... Hold the guy at gun-point, get the chop, stamp the deal, and it's official. Be unable to get the chop: Nope. Nada. Nothing. Even though you're the group who mandated that he got the chop in the first place you can't do shit without... the chop!
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  15. Pretty wild, small world. I now work at a national fab that was purchased by Texas instruments and worked with some guys in salt lake that left Fairchild when it shut down. Great job on these videos man, I feel like I learn more from you about my work than from working there myself
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  16. I remember when there was a big debate here in Australia about using treated water. You even managed to pronounce Toowoomba correctly - I'm amazed. It is a town that's famous for not having the most cosmopolitan people - I guess you could compare Queensland to Florida in terms of how the rest of the nation looks at it. Perth built two huge desalination plants and has almost completed a third, but Western Australia is quite different to the rest of the nation. They are very against privatising any government assets and are a very, very rich state that invests a lot in infrastructure. It's one of the reasons why Australia has two gas markets - WA keeps a portion of the LNG it produces for its own consumption that keeps gas prices very low, whereas the Eastern states just privatise everything and end up paying a fortune for resources they produce themselves, as they have to buy it on the international market.
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  17. With the work you do I really hope TSMC will give you a tour of a legacy node fab. Hell is going to freeze over before they'll let you into a leading edge fab, let alone with a camera, but since the general process, from a high level perspective, is still the same, it would still be insanely interesting to see the whole thing, and I don't know anyone I'd rather have narrate it than you.
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  18. I just started reading the book Diamond Age a couple of days ago, what a coincidence! I'm really enjoying it so far.
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  19. This is really fascinating. This answers a long question I had from one of my favorite rts games growing up- Age of Empires 3. On why the Japanese Civilization couldn't hunt herded animals.
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  20. LV is so successful that it has somewhat compromised its luxury status. I consider it the brand of the upper middle class, not the truly wealthy
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  21. Pasquale has often been quoted as some sort of legend by the oldheads at ST. I had no idea why. Now I do. Thank you -an Indian ST employee
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  22. I've been watching you for years and love the balance you strike between pure facts and good jokes. Thank you for injecting yourself and some lovely comedy into the content :)
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  23. “I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating — and it gets everywhere.” Always found it kind of funny though that the Middle East with all its sand, can’t actually use it for construction because it’s too smooth.
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  24. Good video. I'm particularly pleased that you cleared up the confusion about seagulls.
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  25. You just have to appreciate all the scientific research done in decades past to make these advances possible only now. Also, I think an increase in competition in this space will further the progress made, and also reduce the risk of losing production capacity due to various outside factors. Semiconductors are vital to modern life and society.
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  26. This is the most important and relevant content you've ever put out.
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  27. It does give the layman something too visualize when compared to other programs. The only point that is too be taken away is, "shits complicated"
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  28. I cranked the volume on my headphones to force this information into my brain. Asianometry does a stupendous job of informing, what was, what is, and what's will be. Technology keeps throwing curve balls, Asianometry shows us the pitch.
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  29. I was highly distracted by all these excellent memes.
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  30. Hey love the videos, I was wondering if you have any plans to make a video on what the limitations are on future advancements in semiconductor technology. IE how much smaller and efficient we can make transistors. Sorry if you already made a video on it, couldn't find one in your back catalogue.
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  31. Lol, I'm also in Singapore and can confirm - my neighbor has a cat that's always watching us from their doorway, reminding us to be productive
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  32. People who bemoan the presence of electronics in cars, and want something simple, are probably not old enough to have ever experienced cars like that. They were awful.
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  33. Hey, thanks. Keep up the good work. Your video explained why Chinese panels overtaken German panels, a question which baffled me for a long time. However, I am still baffled why solar energy become a thing THIS time around while I didn't see any major technical breakthrough. And I've been around for a long time and witness hype over solar energy 2-3 times before this round.
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  34. Interesting since my grand parents and both direct families including my mom/dad (as small children) retreated with the KMT to Taiwan. Do not know much of the history since I was born in the USA.
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  35. This video was excellent and well researched for a non technical person i'm impressed how you could deliver all the information about the GFW. Great work man.
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  36. Fantastic videos. I was initially so puzzled at this semiconductor shortage issue for cars because I assumed that that a single low power processor would be sufficient for a full car. It just shows how wrong my assumptions were!
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  37. Seeing the logos of Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest & TVB along with their associated soundtracks really takes me back to my childhood. I know most of their films age poorly but still, I have that nostalgic feeling. Thanks for this, Asianometry!
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  38. Here are the links to other Asianometry videos that mentioned in the video, with timestamps: 1:48 The Waishengren, Briefly Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRq9B_-svvU 4:47 Hongxin: China’s Billion Dollar Semiconductor Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZSvDYDfd78
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  39. Hey long time fan of your channel. You touched on my field of interest so I thought to leave some notes. Notes from a Master Student AI: 1:22 You mention Semantic labeling, but don't actually show any semantic segmentation, which is the semantic labeling of each pixel. It is slightly different from instance segmentation (on the right) because with semantic segmentation you do actually need to assign a value to every pixel, not just the objects within the image. The most complete form is panoptic segmentation, which is both instances and classes annotated at every pixel. 1:47 Brand new dataset is not actually the standard, what commonly is tested is the generalization from one subset of a dataset (~80%) to another subset of the dataset (~20%). A brand new dataset falls under Out of Distribution (OOD) attacks and under the general term "robustness". 3:22 AlphaZero is a warped example of the concept you're trying to explain. Because AlphaZero has a perfectly working simulation to work with, and its predecessor also did a lot of self play. The improvement was in removing the need to pretrain (or prime) the model on humanplay. This was an advancement in reinforcement learning, not the simulation to reality gap. 4:59 You miss the full scope of difference in scale, the difference between 3 and 96 doesn't seem large (factor of 32) but what is actually significant is the amount parameters. That difference is between ~10,000 parameters for ALVINN and 170,000,000,000 (170 billion) Parameters for GPT-3 a factor of 17 million. Also check out DALL-E for the new multi-modal language and image comprehension and GATO for multimodel behavior learning. 5:20 A KMP 1500 robot isn't deployed with any machine learning behavior. It's all old-fashioned expert-made modelling. A better illustration would be robot arms grabbing complex and/or morphable objects. 6:11 Actually the problem isn't that 5000 isn't enough, it's an academic benchmark dataset. Big companies can get 500,000 images if they try a bit (probably even more). The problem is that is also not enough for self-driving cars. And it's not because 500.000 isn't enough to detect trees or pedestrians in the city on a clear day, but there needs to be an insane amount of diversity to detect trees, roads under any weather condition and circumstance. Not to mention 1 in a billion or 1 in a trillion edge cases. For the rest, the carla stuff is great! PS: for another mind-blow look up: "Neural Radiance Fields" and "instant NERFS".
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  40. McCarthyesque accusations? I’m not familiar with that physical effect.
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  41. As a Kiwi with a decade and half in the NZ Film industry this was a very interesting watch. Would love to see a Asianometry investigation in other NZ/ASIA Commercial interests, partnerships. (laughed @ 'does not exist')
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  42. I was totally oblivious to the progress they made. Thanks you for your ever-excellent video essays!
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  43. What a great video. I well remember the IBM 360 from my grad school days (1973 - 76), and also of carrying around those boxes of punch cards for my fortran program. The university was very proud to have that technology. IBM was king of the hill in those days, but today seem to be only a shadow of their former selves. Thank you for the work that was put into this video.
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  44. Dear Asianometry, Thank you once again for a wonderful and informative piece. I lived in San Francisco for 30 years from 1975 to 2005, as a result I was very peripherally there during the emergence of what is now euphemistically called The Tech Industry. The discussion of The American Worker made me smile. I dated a Parisian Girl for while and she looked upon the US and its work ethic, the way we looked upon the Asian Work Ethic, she thought we were insane ( smile ). While I agree with Chang and his description of the American Worker, if he had been in France the machine in question may not have gotten repaired until the end of the week ( smile ), and if I was going to pick a place in the world to live and work in, to be honest it would be Europe. This brings up the larger discussion of what it means to have an efficient corporation and a healthy and happy workforce, however in time this question may not matter as AI System Robotics may very well create the workforce that Chang could only have dreamed of.
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  45. Geeks everywhere love noodles 😋🍜 Fascinating to hear about their success in Africa. Instant noodles can form the base for a quick, cheap and tasty meal by adding just a few ingredients. My current favourite is a spicy Korean brand discovered years ago and buy in bulk to save on delivery and prevent running out.
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  46. Thank you so much for this video, my parent contracted HepC a year before I was born. All my childhood I was worried about it. Once the cure came out I was super excited, but later got very depressed once I learned about that it's only available for late stage HepC in most of Europe. I almost encouraged my parent to seek for the cure nevertheless. A few years passed and suddenly health insurance would finally cover it, my parent was yet very skeptical about the actual benefit, couldn't believe what the doctors said. Now my parent is cured, first few months after healing they got a lot of energy, but eventually the energy levels dropped again - apparently a common thing for those who received the cure.
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  47. I'm currently binge watching all your videos. Love this channel so much! Hakka Taiwanese here. 😉
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  48. You went all out on the puns for this one lol
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  49. Being a DBA student, it's interesting to see where all modern concepts began.
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  50. I'm very excited about the silicon photonics approach. Photonic chips don't need to perform multiplications one at a time, but rather do the whole matrix multiplication in parallel, which makes it a O(1), or constant time operation. The chip needs to be configured to multiply by a certain matrix, which takes milliseconds, and can then perform matrix multiplications as fast as you can give it inputs. With 50GHz modulators and photodetectors readily available, I'm excited to see what companies like QuiX, iPronics and Xanadu will achieve.
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