The time is 2035 and you are sitting in a room with two robots. You ask one of the robots if they can help you with a nuclear fusion problem you have. The robot says sure thing, hit me with it. After a few minutes of discussion, you finish. Then the robot turns to the other robot and speaks in a single burst of noise to the other robot. At the same time the other robot speaks back to the...
From Gemini: "Display inversion is the process of alternating the voltage between positive and negative for each pixel on an LCD screen to prevent damage. This process is called polarity inversion."
If display manufacturers knocked that on the head for certain scenarios then surely we could just have a simple block of horizontal screen scrolling down the display at high refresh rates?
Phosphor fall off as far as can be seen in Slo Mo Guys is quite a small effect not on the scale of this shader.
There really is no need for an expensive RetroTink if we had this. Some manufacturer must be able to do it and the rest would follow.
We don't get the data or training code. The small runtime framework is open source but that's of little use as its largely fixed in implementation due to the weights. Yes we can fine tune but that is akin to modifying video games - we can do it but there's only so much you can do within reasonable effort and no one would call most video games 'open source'*.
Its freeware and Meta's strategy is much more akin to the strategy Microsoft used with Internet Explorer to capture the web browser market. No one was saying god bless Microsoft for trying to capture the browser market with I.E. Nothing wrong with Meta's strategy just don't call it open source.
*weights are data and so is the video/audio output of a video game. If we gave away that video game output for free we wouldn't call the video game open source as the myriad freeware games essentially do.
Just to clarify that last statement (and something to think about) with HDD's you want duplicate assets so that you don't cause seeks which are VERY slow on 5400rpm HDD's still found on some/alot of systems.
Anyway for most systems deployed the customer usually wants to maintain a business using it. If the system constantly falls over, cant be readily changed etc etc that is going to cost the customers business compared to its competitors.
Add that a lot of developers work for the same company as the customer and that is just as much the developers responsibility.
99.999% of bridges built would be expected to hold up 10 years later and require minimal maintenance. I'd wager all bridges even temporary army ones would be expected to not unforeseeably fail. See the Morandi Bridge tragedy.
Although I dont agree with selling to Softbank at least they didn't have a dog in the game. What is bad about Nvidia is that they have a dog in the (chip) game. A major reason you went to ARM was for a non biased design team - you knew you were getting their best if you paid for it. Now I'm afraid you don't.
Also my comment is not anti US, it just so happens that the US has all the big tech companies and foolishly the European countries, especially the UK believes it can compete in a level playing field with the US even though the US's GDP is about 9 times bigger than the UK's - god knows how much bigger its equities markets are.
At the EU level the US is not but then this kind of stuff isn't decided about at the EU level - maybe it should be, not that that will help the UK see the error in its ways after Christmas.
As for emotional reaction with the greatest of respect did you read your message before you posted it?
Ultimately free trade is where the world would like to get to purely from an economic basis but you have to do that in tandem with the rest of the world. If you go first everybody else has a economic advantage over you as possibly the UK will find out after Brexit actually happens. Also politics gets in the way of the world achieving full free trade. Some gov will always want votes by protecting an industry - like the UK's fishing industry for instance.
If Renderware hadn't been brought by EA (and hence controlled by your competitor), the rest of the industry would probably have kept using Renderware as it was the best option and development would have continued. It would have been built on to deliver next gen experiences.
It mirrors pretty much perfectly what is wrong with the ARM Nvidia deal.
Nokia yes wasn't doing well in the smart phone sector but was doing excellently in the feature phone sector. Hence why HMD Global is now doing very well selling those handsets.
I think you're also getting mixed up between 'free-trade' and 'free-markets'. Free trade is about trade deals: NAFTA, WTO, EU, CPTPP, Mercour or whatever trade grouping you want - generally to do with the removal of taxes and standardisation of goods between countries.
Free markets on the other hand is do with the liberalisation of markets i.e removing government intervention (as much as possible) i.e regulations and restrictions of buying and selling of stuff - in this case companies (which can be covered in a trade deal admittedly)
What I'm advocating is that British gov (and most European gov's) restricts the selling of their tech companies based purely on the importance of the tech company.
Why?
Because as I say its do to with control. We're not able to make democratic, sovereign decisions when the fabric of how most things are done is controlled completely by someone else.
I can not put into words how furious I am at the UK's Conservative party for not protecting our last great tech company.
Europe has been fooled into the USA's ultra free market system (which works brilliantly for the US but is terrible for everybody else). As such American tech companies have brought EVERYTHING and eventually moth balled them.
Take Renderware it was the leading game engine of the PS2 era consoles, brought by EA and mothballed. Nokia is another great example brought by Microsoft and mothballed. Imagination Technologies was slightly different in that it wasn't bought but Apple essentially mothballed them. Now ARM will undoubtedly be the next via an intermediate buyout.
You look across Europe and there is nothing. Deepmind could have been a great European tech company - it just needed the right investment.
Never have a referendum that doesn’t explain in detail how to achieve either result. If you can’t explain how to achieve the results then it’s not a matter that is appropriate for a referendum. Brexit falls squarely in the latter camp.