We kinda see California like someone bought the EU on wish.com, so they’re heading the right direction

It’s been a couple years since I last tried Linux, so maybe it’s gotten better

Have been seeing this same comment for two decades now so I’m guessing -

Narrator - “It hadn’t”

My brother in Christ, if you have a home network with 7 Windows and 3 Linux machines, you don’t have any mates 😂😂

Glad you found an incredibly niche exception to my generalisation lol

It’s also funny that Apple phones are seen as an “old people” thing because they’re for simpletons, let’s be honest

That said, this is the argument that gun-owning cowards use, so does it fall under the “How do we stop this happening, says only country in the world where this happens regularly” category?

Probably a wise move to nip it in the bud

Eric, you have the marketing skills of a carrot with Down’s Syndrome

Translation for those who haven’t just had a stroke -

Aren’t they all?

I’ve got the original Vive, which is just my ‘Beatsaber player’ but due to having a wife, a job, and shit to get done, it lives in its protective case. When i do get a minute to use it both controller batteries are dead due to time living in a box

If Linux folks are going to post self-congratulary, condescending comments in threads specifically about Windows, we’re allowed to take the piss

Amazing you managed to post that without having to install three different drivers then reboot forty times, then buy new ram

Removed by mod

Sub headline - the Baidu search features on the Galaxy S24 series are not as good as Google’s version

Popup at the bottom of the screen - Please sign in with your Google account

😂😂 Wonder who owns this webshite

Linux is cursed for me

Sorted that for you

A) There are way cheaper alternatives, with better build quality

B) A Tesla will flat out lie to you about its range

Why whine about paywalls instead of learning how to remove them?

A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain

By James Woodford

12 December 2023

An artist’s impression of the DeepSouth supercomputer

A supercomputer capable of simulating, at full scale, the synapses of a human brain is set to boot up in Australia next year, in the hopes of understanding how our brains process massive amounts of information while consuming relatively little power.

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The machine, known as DeepSouth, is being built by the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) in Sydney, Australia, in partnership with two of the world’s biggest computer technology manufacturers, Intel and Dell. Unlike an ordinary computer, its hardware chips are designed to implement spiking neural networks, which model the way synapses process information in the brain.

Such neuromorphic computers, as they are known, have been built before, but DeepSouth will be the largest yet, capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of synaptic operations in a human brain.

“For the first time we will be able to simulate the activity of a spiking neural network the size of the human brain in real time,” says Andre van Schaik at ICNS, who is leading the project. While DeepSouth won’t be more powerful than existing supercomputers, it will help advance our understanding of neuromorphic computing and biological brains, he says. “We need this ability to better learn how brains work and how they do what they do so well.”

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Existing supercomputers are becoming one of the biggest consumers of energy on the planet, whereas a human brain uses barely more power than a light bulb. At least part of this difference is down to differing ways of processing data – traditional computers process information in fast sequence, constantly moving data between the processor and the memory, while a neuromorphic architecture performs many operations in parallel with significantly reduced movement of data. As the movement of data is one of the most power-hungry parts of the computation, the neuromorphic approach offers significant power savings.

In addition, spiking neural networks are event-driven, meaning the neuromorphic system responds to changes in input rather than continuous running in the background like a traditional computer, resulting in further power savings.

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As well as potentially helping to build new types of computers, Ralph Etienne-Cummings at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, who is not involved in the work, says DeepSouth will advance the study of neuroscience more quickly as he and other researchers will be able to repeatedly test models of the brain.

“If you are trying to understand the brain this will be the hardware to do it on,” he says. “At the end of the day there’s two types of researchers who will be interested in this – either those studying neuroscience or those who want to prototype new engineering solutions in the AI space.”

DeepSouth could pave the way for much higher energy efficiency in computing, says Etienne-Cummings, and if the technology can be miniaturised it will help make drones and robots more autonomous.

I live two hours from a city, waaaay up in the Alps and I have gigabit fibre for€40 a month lol

Your infrastructure sucks donkeyballs 😂

Also, headline-type titles then "In this video I will waffle on for 20 minutes and give you one minute’s worth of info

Meanwhile Hyundai and Kia are absolutely smashing it (in Europe and Asia) with their cheap, reliable cars