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by Tadasuke
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Home & Leisure
Topic: Smartphones News and Discussions
Replies: 47
Views: 24761

Re: Smartphones News and Discussions

For me, it seems like new smartphones have been getting smaller and smaller upgrades as years go by (higher and higher prices at the same time). I had fully expected AR AI glasses fully replacing smartphones in the 2020s and even more impressive tech coming in the 2030s, but I was too optimistic as ...
by Tadasuke
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: General gaming news and discussion
Replies: 405
Views: 286152

some "remasters" look worse than the originals

As for classic RTS games, Age of Mythology is soon going to get a fresh new look thanks to the World's Edge studio. If you mean graphics then "fresh" is not always good. I 100% agree, but AoE II DE (or III DE) does look better than the old AoE II in my opinion. Especially on large, high-r...
by Tadasuke
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:31 pm
Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
Topic: General gaming news and discussion
Replies: 405
Views: 286152

some video game remasters

Some of the games I wish would (and could) receive decent remasters (not remakes) had already received such: Myst (1993) <-- this one is for VR STAR WARS: Dark Forces (1995) <-- the first FPS game in which you could look up and down (!) Quake (1996) and Quake II (1997) <-- ID Software classics Turok...
by Tadasuke
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:24 am
Forum: Images, Podcasts & Videos
Topic: General Science/Technology/Futurist Videos Thread
Replies: 254
Views: 222107

Kevin Kelly videos on the future

I recommend watching a few of Kevin Kelly's videos about the future in multiple chosen topics (one per video), the whole playlist is 38 videos:

Those videos aren't long.
by Tadasuke
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:16 am
Forum: Computers & the Internet
Topic: Social Media & Big Tech news and discussions
Replies: 612
Views: 546964

my take on social media and its consequences

My experiences with social media are mostly negative, especially after 2016. On Facebook 99% of posts from "friends" were: • bragging about something • complaining about something • things which are funny for them, but not for me • things which are nice for them, but not for me • "bes...
by Tadasuke
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: Computers & the Internet
Topic: GPU and CPU news and discussions
Replies: 214
Views: 104072

simulations, transistor count vs relative performance

Yeah, that's true, I agree. Makes no sense to use FP64 in machine learning or in (so called) inference. And various useful and practicable simulations could be also (more efficiently) done with AI (instead of directly simulating in costly very high precision), which has been proven to work. Protein ...
by Tadasuke
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: Computers & the Internet
Topic: GPU and CPU news and discussions
Replies: 214
Views: 104072

GPU prices, Blackwell FP64

For the everyday person, yes. Meanwhile Big Tech is relishing the computing power I used to think that $600 for a single GPU was a lot . 😅 And by the way, Blackwell has only 32% faster FP64 compute than Hopper (40 vs 30 teraflops). One full-spec B200 (208 billion transistors) uses 1200 watts at 100...
by Tadasuke
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: AI & Robotics
Topic: Inflection AI
Replies: 11
Views: 6195

other people's comments on AI and its usefulness, hype cycle

It's not just me. There are a lot of random comments like that on the web. An example: https://i.postimg.cc/NfZhyL93/image.png I'm not against AI, I just think that it's way overhyped and overmarketed, like everything. VR was also supposed to be "almost ready to explode in popularity and capabi...
by Tadasuke
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: Computers & the Internet
Topic: GPU and CPU news and discussions
Replies: 214
Views: 104072

Blackwell transistor count

208 billion transistors And that's just one chip, never mind combining them into clusters. Actually one chip is 104 billion transistors (still not a small number). Built on the 4nm TSMC production process. Two chips combined into one are 208 BT, a bit like AMD Zen, which also combines "chiplet...
by Tadasuke
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: Computers & the Internet
Topic: GPU and CPU news and discussions
Replies: 214
Views: 104072

RTX 4060 vs GTX 1060

Despite what Jensen Huang wants us to believe, performance for your everyday person hasn't really changed that much in recent years. 4060 is 135% faster in 1080p and 145% in 1440p gaming than 1060 from 2016. Prices are about the same when counting inflation. There is 33% more memory on the 4060. htt...