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kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepowerEnglish
1·10 days agoElectrics produce maximum torque at 0 rpm …
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepowerEnglish
21·13 days agoYep, I noticed that, you’re right. And that’s near-miraculous efficiency. The maker’s website sez: “YASA also estimates that its all-important continuous power will be in the region of 350kW-400kW (469bhp-536bhp).” It also sez: "To achieve a 750kW short-term peak rating and a density of 59kW/kg … " Devi’ls in the details … The image on the ‘superblondie’ page shows A LOT of cooling built into whatever metal that is: https://supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/YASA-tiny-electric-motor.webp
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepowerEnglish
74·13 days agoI think he was trying to admit he doesn’t know shit about electric motors.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulationEnglish
15·14 days agoOh those mathers. At least scientists are humble enough to recognize that theorums about the physical world can’t be proven.
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsEnglish
82·15 days agoOh noes, how could that -possibly- scale?
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsEnglish
81·15 days agoIt was a decent summary, I was replying when you pulled it. Analog has its strengths (the first computers were analog, but electronics was much cruder 70 years ago) and it is def. a better fit for neural nets. Bound to happen.
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsEnglish
51·15 days agoNice thorough commentary. The LiveScience article did a better job of describing it for people with no background in this stuff.
The original computers were analog. They were fast, but electronics was -so crude- at the time, it had to evolve a lot … and has in the last half-century.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it mattersEnglish
14·1 month ago" Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default — and that changes everything"
Wouldn’t it be great if all your docs were stored out in the cloud? Just think, you wouldn’t need a hard drive! And someone else could guard them for you, like, say, Deputy Dan. http://descope.kwwhitaker.com/wallofscience.html
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Technology@lemmy.world•kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the InternetEnglish
645·1 month agoNope, and this one is NOT going to change that … can’t take all that cutesy animation and the fast-flowing babble for 2 minutes, let alone 12
kalkulat@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the InternetEnglish
682·1 month agoThis video is very probably also AI slop
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study findsEnglish
2·1 month agoIt really helps to try to think about the other side of any question. That’s what good debaters do, so they can figure out the best responses to what the others’ arguments might be.
When these LLMs keep agreeing with you, they’re actually weakening the likelihood that you’ll work out a fully-formed opinion.
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study findsEnglish
2·1 month agoMe too … LEMMY added that, out of my control. So I replaced it with my idea of what a typical LLM looks like.
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study findsEnglish
1·1 month agoYou -do- realize you’re getting advice from a machine that constructs sentences using mathematical algorithms, and has no clue at all what it’s saying … right?
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juiceEnglish
1·2 months agoThat’ll teach them to plan ahead!
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-DroidEnglish
231·2 months agoYep. The E.U. has allowed itself to be dominated for too long by the US megacorps. It has the talent, ideas, and manufacturing to tell US firms to bugger off … and the sooner, the better for us all.
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juiceEnglish
12·2 months agoA funny thing happened back in the middle 1800s. A man ran a 7-ton electric locomotive a mile and a half. The motor was powered by a storage device. In the late 1800s, people drove their cars around all day using a storage device. These storage devices became better and better, until they could power trucks and buses for hundreds of miles.
They are still getting better and better. Of course they can be depleted, and it’s good to havea backup methods to cover these cases and to keep the storage devices charged when there’s no sun or wind. Hydroelectric dams powered by water-storage are widely-used, and some flat places still burn fossil fuels to do that as well.
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juiceEnglish
51·2 months agoOffshore wind is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of power generation.
Interesting claim (as compared with coal mining and its fly-ash ponds, Canadian tar sands, hundreds of bankrupt and leaking well sites in New Mexico and the Gulf of America, rivers stripped by nuclear heat waste, etc). What exactly does most mean?
kalkulat@lemmy.worldOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juiceEnglish
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple says EU should get rid of its digital markets lawEnglish
8·2 months agoThe EU has plenty of talent and ideas. (ESA? RasPi? ARM?) It needs to liberate its people from dependence on US corps and create its own net economy, infrastructure and great sites.
Here in the US? time for these trillionaire monopolists to get their due. Good to see InternetArchive.eu get established!


















Going by ‘colour’, I’d guess that headline came from the UK. Writing them is a tricky, trippy task.