Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by comboy on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:09PM
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Bought by Apple for $360M in 2013. I've been wondering when did they start thinking about this feature (or rather this kind of implementation for it). It seems that even when you have a lot of money and experience, there's still a pretty long way from an idea to its successful execution.
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by alanfalcon on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:15PM
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That matches pretty closely with the three year design lead period for the Neural Engine that Apple revealed.[1]
[1] http://mashable.com/2017/09/14/inside-apple-a11-bionic-and-s...
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by JustSomeNobody on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:19PM
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Money has little to do with it. You can only add so many engineers to a project. Therefore, some things just take time.
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by matude on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:35PM
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Aka "9 women won't give birth to a child in 1 month". An example often used to describe how adding more developers doesn't necessarily solve an issue quicker.
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by waynecochran on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:09PM
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"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by gumby on Sunday September 17, 2017 @06:12PM
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Credit for this goes to Fred Brooks, and appears in his famous book "The Mythical Man-Month"
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by JustSomeNobody on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:24PM
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Yes it does. I could not find my copy to find the quote I wanted to use so I used my own (not quite as effective) words.
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by gumby on Sunday September 17, 2017 @08:58PM
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Didn't mean to imply you'd done something wrong, just added to your comment.
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by monk_e_boy on Sunday September 17, 2017 @07:12PM
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I wonder what they are eyeing up to buy at the moment and what will turn up in iPhones in 5 years time.
Some sort of AI accelerator chip. Or clear phone / heads up display.
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by AceJohnny2 on Sunday September 17, 2017 @09:30PM
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> Some sort of AI accelerator chip
like the Neural Engine in the A11? :]
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/13/16300464/apple-iphone-x-a...
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by dzhiurgis on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:45AM
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Am I wrong or that article gets many things wrong. These chips are not designed to do any learning, but run pre-trained models (much like FPGA's few years back or Google's TPU).
The actual heavy lifting (model training) still happens and the """cloud""".
Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by AceJohnny2 on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:06PM
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You are wrong. For one thing, the learning of your face, and learning over time as your face changes (glasses, hairstyle, beard) happens fully locally.