There's an urban legend/apocrypha of a must-not-fail 5ESS failing because purchasing hard drives from different manufacturers and batches was deeemd too expensive. Well, add install time to the surprise failure mode list: 2^57 nanoseconds.
We've all been expecting/hoping that the economic drive for space manufacturing was going to be fiber optics or lab-grown organs or microchips. What if it's salads and beer?
As a card-carrying member of the intentionally-drive-mosquitos-extinct club, I salute this killbot but why can't I just buy one?! (h/t rasputin)
Absolutely nobody should be surprised that point-and-deepfake is here already.
I've always wondered about why, exactly, GPUs are so much faster than CPUs for machine learning. Turns out, at least one major reason is you know the memory access at compile time.