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[–] 212 points 1 year ago (10 children)

By tuning the “Gaussian length” of the channel, the team achieved two‑dimensional super‑injection, which is an effectively limitless charge surge into the storage layer that bypasses the classical injection bottleneck.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Which episode of Star Trek is this from?

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The one where there's a problem with the holodeck.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's the one where Barclay gets obsessed with his Holodeck program.

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    [–] 82 points 1 year ago* (20 children)

    AI AI AI AI

    Yawn

    Wake me up if they figure out how to make this cheap enough to put in a normal person's server.

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  • [+] 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, when you're a technology enthusiast, it's easy to forget that your average user doesn't have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.

    (Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It's pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hello fellow home labber! I have a home built xpenology box, proxmox server with a dozen vm’s, a hackentosh, and a workstation with 44 cores running linux. Oh, and a usb floppy drive. We are out here.

    I also like long walks in Oblivion.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You... you don't? Surely there's some mistake, have you checked down the back of your cupboard? Sometimes they fall down there. Where else do you keep your internet?

    Appologies, I'm tired and that made more sense in my head.

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    [–] 76 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Link to the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08839-w

    The repro and verification will take time. Months or even years. Don't trust anyone who says it's definitely real or definitely bunk. Time will tell.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

    This article appeared in my feed just above another article about how China has the world's first operational thorium reactor. Meanwhile, the US is about to fight a civil war over whether vaccination causes measles and stripping away the last of our social programs in order to get our wealthiest people another 2% subsidy.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    China and Russia worked very hard to get these rich stupid people in power.

    It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.

    Surprisingly, the "liberal tears compilations" and "something about an email server people didn't understand wasn't actually illegal" actually worked and drowned out the warnings from our security agencies.

    I don't think China will be any better of a world leader tbh.

    I see humanity's future as a boot stepping on a human face forever, unless humanity globally rejects kings, oligarchs, and dictators.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't forget the genius DNC folk, including HRC thought a pied piper strategy of boosting the circus peanut was a good idea.

    If the Russians and Chinese did anything it was just capitalizing on an unforced error by the hubris of the centrist. One again, bernie would have won, but that was more distasteful to the ruling class than fascism.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Too bad the US can't import any of it.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    China scientists

    So, Chinese scientists?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Real talk, why is discussion around people and subjects in China so fucking weird?

    If it's not referring to the entire population when it only applies to the government or a subset of them as a global "the Chinese" or doing silly shit like "China scientists" everyone's grammatical skills suddenly tank when even broaching a topic even tangential to the PRC.

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    [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Brother, have you heard of buses? Even INSIDE cpus/socs bus speeds are a limitation. Also i fucking hate how the first thing people mention now is how ai could benefit from a jump in computing power.

    Edit: I havent dabbled that much in high speed stuff yet but isnt the picosecond range so fast that the capacitance of simple traces and connectors between chips influence the rising and falling edge of chips?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That's pretty much my understanding. Most of the advancements happened in memory speeds are related to the physical proximity of the memory and more efficient transmission/decoding.

    GDDR7 chips for example are packed as close as physically possible to the GPU die, and have insane read speeds of 28 Gbps/pin (and a 5090 has a 512-bit bus). Most of the limitation is the connection between GPU and RAM, so speeding up the chips internally 1000x won't have a noticeable impact without also improving the memory bus.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Clickbait article with some half truths. A discovery was made, it has little to do with Ai and real world applications will be much, MUCH more limited than what's being talked about here, and will also likely still take years to come out

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but endurance. and accuracy. and longevity. How about those?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Yeah... At best click baity as fuck, at worst a complete scam.

    Any time there is a 10x or more in a headline you are 10x or more likely to be right by calling it BS.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whenever they say X whatever times, I doubt it right away, because they always interpret the statistics in the dumbest ways possible. You have a solar panel that is 28% efficient. There is no way it can be 20x times as efficient, that's just clickbait.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You just fucking wait. Trump is bringing manufacturing to the US. And when that plant opens someday you'll be so sorry you doubted.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Wow, finally graphene has been cracked. Exciting times for portable low-energy computing

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