>jigaflops matter more than general processing ability
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Are processors the most advanced human technology?
Gabriel Cruz
Connor Ramirez
Optical and quantum versions are more advanced technically
Charles Hughes
Yeah but they don't work
Mason Garcia
what do you mean? AI can mean several things, all of them quite important but most advanced tech? I dont think so
Dominic Edwards
Still more advanced
Michael Bell
Honestly I still cant wrap my head around the fact that we actually manipulate atoms and subatomic particles?!
I mean how is that even possible when our instruments are made of atoms and we cant even see what are we doing.
For example transistors in those CPUs are like 40-50 atoms wide... what the actual fuck and how?
Isnt this (however it is acomplished) the most advanced thing we have ever done?
Calculating mass of atom? Charge and spin of electrons? Fuck man...
Hunter Davis
>GPUs
>not FPGAs
>not hybrid SoCs
stop being so smug pleb
Jack Sullivan
We basically use clever trick with light to "print" the circuitry. We don't deal with individual atoms as that would take forever. Even with the ultra-advanced process for making chips, a lot of them still don't make it through. It's a game of chances really, you make some and you waste some.
Luis Reed
Big software projects are propably the most complex things we make.
Levi Clark
This got me thinking. What has lower information entropy - a modern CPU sitting by itself or a hard drive with Windows 10 and Photoshop installed on it (both tremendously complex pieces of software)?