Computer Technology

[AnimeFan188]

Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Real Thing

"New artificial versions of the neurons and synapses in the human brain are up to 1,000 times smaller than neurons and at least 10,000 times faster than biological synapses, a study now finds.

These new devices may help improve the speed at which the increasingly common and powerful artificial intelligence systems known as deep neural networks learn, researchers say."

See:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-synapses

[AnimeFan188]

Programming languages: It's time to stop using C and C++ for new
projects, says Microsoft Azure CTO

"Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and reliability concerns."

See:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/progra...oft-azure-cto/

[Tratillo]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Real Thing

"New artificial versions of the neurons and synapses in the human brain are up to 1,000 times smaller than neurons and at least 10,000 times faster than biological synapses, a study now finds.

These new devices may help improve the speed at which the increasingly common and powerful artificial intelligence systems known as deep neural networks learn, researchers say."

See:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-synapses

This is exciting. Will be really cool to see what happens when there are a bunch of them together. I wonder how durable the thing is too, having to deal with high charge differentials.

[AnimeFan188]

DVD’s New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit

"A novel disc the size of a DVD can hold more than 1 million gigabits—roughly
as much as is transmitted per second over the entire world’s Internet—by
storing data in three dimensions as opposed to two, a new study finds."


"Now scientists in China have developed a way to encode data on 100 layers in
optical discs. In addition, the data is recorded using spots as small as 54
nanometers wide, roughly a tenth of the size of the wavelengths of visible light
used to read and write the data.

All in all, a DVD-size version of the new disc has a capacity of up to 1.6
petabits—that is, 1.6 million gigabits. This is some 4,000 times as much data
density as a Blu-ray disc and 24 times as much as the currently most advanced
hard disks. The researchers suggest their new optical disc can enable a data
center capable of exabit storage—a billion gigabits—to fit inside a room instead
of a stadium-size space."

See:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-stora...t-optical-disc

[Ithekro]

What do you do with that much storage capacity? Unless you are making videos art, it is hard to fill even terabyte drives