Comments by "Steven Gill" (@stevengill1736) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. Gosh, I never really considered an LLM OS....like in the film "Her", eh? I'd consider an LLM like Claude or whatever as a PA, but I'd prefer the kernel to be hard coded - one would fear that an LLM could be talked into anything, especially if it was allowed unmonitored access to the web.... "the sun don't shine on the same dog's butt every day..." LOL, gotta admit I've never heard that one before.... ;^=[} But this is a fantastic overview - I feel lucky to have experienced the last 40 years or so of that development, and of course before that got the obligatory 6th grade tour of the local Bell telephone exchange where we heard the merry clicks of giant rooms full of relays routing calls and watched a card sorting machine figure out that months bills in what, 1964? It's been a glorious journey, hasn't it?
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  2. LOL - I guess that's what we call a bucket list.... hopefully my bod will become sod for some hungry plants, me too... Cheers....
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  3. No one thought too much about those cables until first the news broke a few years ago about how various nations cut into them for intelligence gathering during the Cold war and more recently the Houthis among others have targeted them for various political reasons.... Here in Northern California, Facebook added a cable a couple years ago to increase connectivity with Asia. I suppose the cable carries other traffic besides Facebook - hope so since I don't use FB. ;*[} Fascinating stuff, thank you for researching this - I actually bought a book on undersea cables a few years ago, but it's not up to date. Like that Nordstream pipeline they blew up, those cables are relatively easy to attack, so as you pointed out they can be relatively easily cut - just another vulnerability in our infrastructure one supposes... there's a great book written in the 1980s called "Brittle Power" that discusses such things - still relevant after four decades... Anyone interested can get a free copy as a PDF online.... Cheers.
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  4. Makes me wonder what exotic materials they'll develop in the future?
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  5. Happens to me all the time with my Amazon packages too, except I get random experimental NSA monitoring programs. ;*p
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  6. "don't be sorry, just be better".... that's a good one - cheers.
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  7. Holy kitty cats! If those mirrors get any bigger, they'll be used in giant telescopes second-hand!
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  8. "Heavy water...kind of". ;*=[}
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  9. Hopefully not the end, just a hiatus of a few decades {]*;😊;*[}
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  10. Wow, more history that spawned so much of what we take for granted these days.... can't wait to hear the next installment! Thank you kindly for your videos, n hey, what happened? It's 2024......whoda thunk it?? 😊
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  11. That's a whole lotta desalination!! I suppose nuclear desalination would be the best, but the whole nuclear issue...sheesh. Then the floods, wow - too bad they couldn't save all the floodwaters for the drought years, but it'd take a three gorges sized dam to hold it all...
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  12. Too bad - I'm still waiting for the ultra high efficiency chips that'll make a phone run for a week on one battery charge. ;*[} (NB: is that even possible thermodynamically?)
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  13. Hey, I missed the Shaw theaters one, thanks! I spent a month in Kaosiung in 1980 when a ship I worked on drydocked there. It was a busy little town back then, and those were the days when Taiwan was the textbook pirate of the world. I still have the medical textbooks I bought vack then for a quarter of what they cost stateside. In those days blue collar workers chewed betel, and I found it quite enjoyable, especially the fresh nut, betel leaves and spices concoctions on ice that vendors would trundle around town. People there seemed friendly, and the street vendors at night were fun to check out, even if you weren't buying.
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  14. Zaibatsudelic baby!
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  15. ​ @falconeagle3655  I wonder what effect large language models writing code will have on this? Make better, less bloated software or worse?
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  16. Never heard of it believe it or not, but tapioca is great, sounds quite tasty! Have to try this interesting variant, cheers.
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  17. It never occurred to me that chip design could be modular! But of course, makes sense. I wonder if AI (there must be better words for machine learning) will take over IC design eventually, and find unanticipated designs like Alpha Go for that game?
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  18. For a minute I read, "wafer bombing...!" I didn't know glass cold welded, wow - I've seen polished aluminum do that - it's amazing....
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  19. They'll cook my mom dinner? Cool! ;*[}>. Hopefully it'll find a way ...look how the medicinal chemistry search for new drugs us being automated....
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  20. Oh yeah! This was what Rupert Sheldrake was talking about decades ago...what was it, formative causation? i.e. morphic resonance theory ... cool!
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  21. ...and shipping them was pretty dramatic too.,.
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  22. ​ @VarieTea729  Yes: a very controlled process backed up by a lot of high energy x-ray imaging and other quality control measures....
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  23. ​ @MrDanisve  Don't they get hydrogen embrittlement in that process?
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  24. I recently read of wafers made of a silicon-germanium alloy that are much tougher, for applications like
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  25. I remember when they called pulling boules zone refining, but it's understood tha this is an aspect of the CZ method....also, I've heard silicon-germanium alloys are being looked at. Thank you kindly.
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  26. That's so neat! I wonder if there's such a thing online somewhere?
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  27. Yes - that purification of materials to unheard of levels affected a lot of materials - I wonder how much so was attributable to the Manhattan project?
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  28. Bruce Lee would have made an awesome Shaolin monk!
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  29. Probably will be an app with a little box you plug into the phone.....sample prep will still be an issue though.... ;*[}
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  30. Interesting materials, thank you....
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  31. That picture at 14:45 is such a classic....."let's go nuclear now, everybody's learning how, come on and safari with me!!" Rancho Seco near Sacramento was the one I learned on...
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  32. When I was a kid one of my friends was becoming an electronics engineer, and one of the experiments he tried was heating selenium rectifiers to vaporize the selenium and then condensing it on a cold glass surface....it worked as a source of selenium for an element collection, but the fumes were gnarly! I remember the powerful odor, somewhat similar to garlic....
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  33. Wow - I'm proud of you....ahead of the curve!😊. Cheers..
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  34. Fapping? Church of the Subgenius lingo. But hey, there's no prob with "Bob" ;*[}
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  35. More than two....
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  36. "Extreme Heterogeny"...great name for a band! How was the resources use of a Google search compared to ChatGTP anyway? Betting the latter = >>expense!!
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  37. Very good points - I hope we can find plenty of people interested in working on the line in fabs, because we need the industry, for sure.
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  38. I hope someone sets up an ultra efficient Li battery recycling plant....
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  39. Forgive me if this is a duplicate post... If you think others might be interested, there's a procedure called calcium imaging that coupled with microscopy can show neurons firing in living tissue - zoom out a little and waves of neural activity can be seen in real time....like magic to me... Glad I didn't miss this video, another fascinating romp through the technical universe...cheers.
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  40. Yup.....megabytes of microchips as the old joke goes ...
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  41. Man, EVERYTHING is counterfeited these days!! What a nightmare...
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  42. Gosh, pretty heavy freight I'd guess....oil diffusion vacuum pump included? Had a neighbor that had similar from UC Berkeley...he was always tinkering, but eventually got some excellent images...
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  43. How about Kweitow Mai-tais? Mao tie Mai-tais? (next they'll tell me Mai-tais CAME from Moutai...) did they say liquor was baijo? Up to 120 proof? Yikes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baijiu
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  44. Wow, Dow SILK - a dielectric polymer with crazy chemistry...
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  45. "what's it all about, ArFeee?". ;*p
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  46. All these companies.... growing up in the bay area made them so familiar - having a friend who was becoming an electronics engineer meant learning a little about photoresists and the like, but the bay area had all sorts of creative new businesses of all kinds. Narional Semiconductor catalogs laying around....yup, great place to grow up if you were scientifically inclined.....
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  47. ...or you're psychic and.....what new video subject am I thinking of right now! (I don't know if a video on "right to repair" or this creeping movement towards consumers not owning anything, everyone's being forced to subscribe to everything...but that's probably not your bailiwick Jon, cheers!)
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  48. FINFET just rolls off the tongue, n'est ce pas? Seriously, another invention gifted to us by public research (DARPA again)....
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  49.  @alanmoore2197  Thank you kindly Alan - my knowledge of the history of calculatos is nonexistent, but those HP ones were the beginning of my interest in such things, so they stuck in my mind. I know they were the sine qua non at the time. Heck, in my chemistry class we had an electronic calculator, basically a glorified adding machine with Nixie tube displays, go figure! ;*p
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  50. Is it happening everywhere?
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