Terry Cox
@TerryCox
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@david_chisnall This is a pre-competitive collaboration between all the major suppliers and institutions that sets out all the difficult challenges that must be overcome across the next 15 years, in order to continue to scale at the same rate, and which identifies technology requirements for each stage of that progression.
It is freely available, so to understand what the next 15 years looks like, one only has to go to https://irds.ieee.org and read it.
@david_chisnall Agreed. The “Moore’s Law is over” crowd are usually entirely ignorant of the fact that progress in alignment with Moore’s Law sits under an international working group that has operated for decades to ensure continued advancement in the sector. The current instantiation of that is the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, which is hosted within the IEEE.
@MLE_online Measurement of distance between cities becomes accurate to a precision of around 0.2% by around 300BC, suggesting the existence of a mechanical odometer by that time. Designs for such a mechanism are documented from 27BC.
Given that a military courier on horseback could potentially surpass 50mph you can probably push the date for selective usage of some similar measurement of speed back some 2,500 years.
@cstross Menhit: “You are libelling me on the internet again, aren’t you?” <swat>
@cstross Next time you venture south, let me know and I’ll show you around the flying boat station where the Saro Princess ended up. The original Sunderland hanger is still in situ, although now home to a dry ski slope, a climbing wall complex and an Olympic velodrome.
@cstross Would have been fun watching them try to get that up off of Southampton Water before they hit the Isle of Wight.
@foosel As a provider of control software for machinery, there is equally a requirement for you to demonstrate compliance with the regulations, so being able to work with a manufacturer to mitigate that risk should be a huge relief.
@foosel I think it’s a positive sign to see Chinese manufacturers acting to comply with European legislation. I am more concerned about other vendors who aren’t making their products compliant and therefore risk bans or triggering prosecutions of people using their equipment, not realising that it is an offence.
@cstross To reach Artificial Intelligence, we must necessarily first pass through Artificial Stupidity.
The fundamental question is whether we can survive the outcomes resulting from a bunch of businesses who believe that they can make money from deploying artificial stupidity at say 1/10th the cost of natural stupidity.
At what fractional cost do we hit the Stupidity Singularity?
@kestral The problem with 3D printers and Makerspaces is that it usually takes 4-8hrs to run an interesting print so they are bottlenecked.
For events, I recommend including tools that support Cosplay since this opens up a much broader audience. Foam/silicone/resin casting, vacu-forming, electronics and coding for LEDs and audio. Sewing and leather working.