Ganguro street style makes it to Britain. As well as their mutant synchronized dancing. Well, whatever makes them happy.
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Sparrow-sized UAV prototype.. working
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Update: Whoops, forgot to link the actual article on this from Next Big Future.
It lifts itself AND it’s power source already at this stage. Of course, this is being built for the military, so it’ll be able to accomplish much more (and much more sinister) tasks in the future.
It will, however, trickle down. Within the next 10 years or so, we should be able to populate our gardens with robotic sparrows. Task one: eat those fucking wasps. Task two: see task one. Task three: look wicked.
ECC comin atcha live from the @DNALounge
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Update: It’s worth listening until the end. Britney mixed with Zepplin… scarily well. I was editing the post to apologize for Brit-bombing at the end of the mix but that is too weird to be missed, actually.
I’ve heard there’s been some ruckus about places like the DNA Lounge offering all-ages access to music. What’s so scary about music that you have to keep kids away. Sure, they’re going to hear acts like the Evolution Control Committee, which I’m pretty sure is the product of ADD and Redbull. You know when you walk through the mall, and it’s a continuous blend of pop music, but out of sync? Imagine that, but in-sync (and mostly not modern pop, more 60-70-80-90s-ish type stuff). Great for people who can’t listen to enough music, because it’s always at least two if not three or more songs playing simultaneously, so you get to listen to 4 songs at once, and it changes every couple minutes so you don’t get a chance to get bored of any song.
And I hate mash-ups, so the fact I’m endorsing this ought to say something. It was all done live, and it’s not pre-practiced – they have a wheel-of-mash-up. The audience spins it and then whatever it lands on gets mixed. Bizarre, but it mostly works.
Senior Project manager for Nvidia just said “never”
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
[update]too many links on blog, quote was from senior project manager not head scientist[END]
Watch him be proven wrong.
Answer: There are advantages but there are also many disadvantages to such an approach. CPU and GPUs have different design cycles, and the challenges of integrating both on a single IC are nontrivial. This perhaps explains why AMD/ATI is taking so long to get their Fusion products to market. Moreover, a CPU/GPU die will never be able to offer equivalent performance of a dedicated CPU coupled with a dedicated GPU.
We’ll see about that. At the rate chips are shrinking and stacking, we may have no choice. Ten years ago I had maybe 32 megs of ram on my video card, now I’ve got a gig and it takes up about the same amount of space. Both Intel and Nvidia don’t have what AMD has – that underdog desperation that makes one do crazy, bold things. Many people have famously claimed nevers on the computer industry, and so far they’ve been surprised every time. 640k was once enough, now 6 gigs is barely scraping by.
Honestly, at the rate technology is crankin along, I’ll have a GPU in each eye by the time I’m 80. Or, more likely, that sort of technology will be deprecated in favor of whatever our next step is going to be (just wait until we don’t need near absolute Zero temperatures to quantum-compute).
One thing I do know. Whatever sort of processing my eyeballs do, it will be GOOD.
I’m such a fucking #nerd
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
This kinda thing makes me totally hot.
In addition to metonymy and synecdoche I’m also reading about polysemy tonight. FOR FUN.
Logofetish, indeed.
I got there by way of Zaporozhian Sich which I got to from the article on Taras Bulba. I think I need to thank @greatdismal on twitter for spawning this week-long knowledge trek that started with Taras.