He strikes me as a “wannabe American”. As someone who has lived in the US, but didn’t necessarily want to immigrate on a permanent basis, you can smell the deep insecurity with Elmo on this issue.

Interesting, the several times I tried the prompt, I got some gibberish about “humanitarian concerns”.

This was earlier in the year though.

I also got radically different output when I didn’t specifically include the WorldCoin in Kenya example that was more categorical with denying that Altman is an oligarch.

Prompting Gemini LLM about Sunder Pichai was also interesting.

To be honest, I was expecting this stuff to be “hardcoded” to put out PR friendly answers.

This doesn’t seem to be for a handheld though. The addition of HDMI CEC and the high TDP suggests this seems to be a console of sorts.

Beautiful irony to see this coming from Sam “Worldcoin” Altman.

Bonus points, try inputting a prompt into ChatGPT asking whether Sam Altman is an oligarch and his “rescue” of Worldcoin executives in Kenya is an example of oligarch power.

Is mmWave even a thing?

I live in a country with no 5G yet (honestly I don’t feel like I am missing out all that much), but I haven’t really heard that much about mmWave after the initial PR push during the early introduction of 5G.

As I was reading this rather information dense piece (the part on Ruthenium interconnect required multiple re-readings for some reason), a strange thought came to my head.

I imagined a senior Intel executive having to explain this research to Trump (or even his senior advisors). How would you even summarize this in a concise (e.g. x3 bullet points) way while still emphasizing the importance of this research?

“Using “next gen” ruthenium instead of legacy copper for greatly improved semiconductor wiring and electricity distribution”

Something like that? 😀

They want the best of both worlds.

Or perhaps the “have your cake and eat it too” idiom would be more appropriate.

At one point BitTorrent/P2P was responsible for something like 30-40% of all global internet traffic.

The thing is the protocol never really developed beyond some useful, but minor evolutionary updates.

Short-form vertical video social platforms are here to stay.

We are not going to turn back the clock. I say this as someone who doesn’t use TikTok.

The only semi-realistic (and I use this term very casually) option would be some sort of radical, never-seen-before change in our global societal and socioeconomic models. The dynamics of short form video social media will be the least of our concerns in such a scenario.

I still use HDDs for mass/archival storage and will continue to do so, but I do think in 5-10 years SSD $/TB will be catch up to HDD (or come close enough where more and more people will choose SSDs).

We’ll found out in 5-10 years. 😀