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[–] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 203 points 2 months ago (3 children)

By tuning the “Gaussian length” of the channel, the team achieved two‑dimensional super‑injection, which is an effectively limitless charge surge into the storage layer that bypasses the classical injection bottleneck.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 74 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which episode of Star Trek is this from?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The one where there's a problem with the holodeck.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

They're just copying the description of the turbo encabulator.

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 76 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

AI AI AI AI

Yawn

Wake me up if they figure out how to make this cheap enough to put in a normal person's server.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.

You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.

Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.

What price point are you trying to hit?

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What price point are you trying to hit?

With regards to AI?. None tbh.

With this super fast storage I have other cool ideas but I don't think I can get enough bandwidth to saturate it.

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[–] minoscopede@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Link to the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08839-w

The repro and verification will take time. Months or even years. Don't trust anyone who says it's definitely real or definitely bunk. Time will tell.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Speaking of, did you hear there's a new room temperature super conductor?

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

This article appeared in my feed just above another article about how China has the world's first operational thorium reactor. Meanwhile, the US is about to fight a civil war over whether vaccination causes measles and stripping away the last of our social programs in order to get our wealthiest people another 2% subsidy.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

China and Russia worked very hard to get these rich stupid people in power.

It really started in 2016 when US security agencies released a joint report showing Russia was spreading misinformation to help Trump win the election.

Surprisingly, the "liberal tears compilations" and "something about an email server people didn't understand wasn't actually illegal" actually worked and drowned out the warnings from our security agencies.

I don't think China will be any better of a world leader tbh.

I see humanity's future as a boot stepping on a human face forever, unless humanity globally rejects kings, oligarchs, and dictators.

[–] Netux@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the genius DNC folk, including HRC thought a pied piper strategy of boosting the circus peanut was a good idea.

If the Russians and Chinese did anything it was just capitalizing on an unforced error by the hubris of the centrist. One again, bernie would have won, but that was more distasteful to the ruling class than fascism.

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not my future, I will try to die in a way that even an omnipotent AI can't bring back.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Gonna make sure to bring as many of those fuckers with me as possible.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fuck the idiotic Americans that won't bother to immunize, never mind understanding science as a whole.

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

Too bad the US can't import any of it.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Brother, have you heard of buses? Even INSIDE cpus/socs bus speeds are a limitation. Also i fucking hate how the first thing people mention now is how ai could benefit from a jump in computing power.

Edit: I havent dabbled that much in high speed stuff yet but isnt the picosecond range so fast that the capacitance of simple traces and connectors between chips influence the rising and falling edge of chips?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 2 months ago

That's pretty much my understanding. Most of the advancements happened in memory speeds are related to the physical proximity of the memory and more efficient transmission/decoding.

GDDR7 chips for example are packed as close as physically possible to the GPU die, and have insane read speeds of 28 Gbps/pin (and a 5090 has a 512-bit bus). Most of the limitation is the connection between GPU and RAM, so speeding up the chips internally 1000x won't have a noticeable impact without also improving the memory bus.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Clickbait article with some half truths. A discovery was made, it has little to do with Ai and real world applications will be much, MUCH more limited than what's being talked about here, and will also likely still take years to come out

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[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but endurance. and accuracy. and longevity. How about those?

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

And price and maye write more than 1 single bit

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Yeah... At best click baity as fuck, at worst a complete scam.

Any time there is a 10x or more in a headline you are 10x or more likely to be right by calling it BS.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whenever they say X whatever times, I doubt it right away, because they always interpret the statistics in the dumbest ways possible. You have a solar panel that is 28% efficient. There is no way it can be 20x times as efficient, that's just clickbait.

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You just fucking wait. Trump is bringing manufacturing to the US. And when that plant opens someday you'll be so sorry you doubted.

[–] BobSentMe@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the foxconn plant in Wisconsin will fire up ANY DAY NOW! drums fingers

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I talked to like 50 people today and all of the people said they were starting manufacturing plants tomorrow and they'll be fully functional Tuesday around 3:15.

I started mine earlier and I've already done manufacturing 3 times today. It's really easy. By this time tomorrow I'll have a couple more and they'll all be winning manufacturing.

Tariffs gave me the ability to finally believe in myself. Tariffs have increased my stamina in bed, given me a full head of hair again, and since I started manufacturing plant yesterday I've dropped 50 pounds.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that fast enough to put an LLM in swap and have decent performance?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Note that this in theory speaks to performance of a non volatile memory. It does not speak to cost.

We already have a faster than NAND non volatile storage in phase change memory . It failed due to expense.

If this thing is significantly more expensive even than RAM, then it may fail even if it is everything it says it is. If it is at least as cheap as ram, it'll be huge since it is faster than RAM and non volatile.

Swap is indicated by cost, not by non volatile characteristics.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like that material would be more useful in high performance radars, not as flash memory

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It‘s likely BS anyway. Maybe it’s just me but reading about another crazy breakthrough from China every single day during this trade war smells fishy. Because I‘ve seen the exact same propaganda strategy during the pandemic when relations between China and the rest of the world weren‘t exactly the best. A lot of those headlines coming from there are just claims about flashy topics with very little substance or second guessing. And the papers releasing the stories aren‘t exactly the most renowned either.

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