Technology (Circuitry & Computational): From the 22 to 14 Nanometer to the 7 Nanometer

[Her Lao]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/technology/ibm-announces-computer-chips-more-powerful-than-any-in-existence.html?_r=0

The "breakthrough," it has turned out to be, is no longer a true "breakthrough."

Because currently, most sophisticated and super fast machines are already transitioning from the 14-nanometer to the 10-nanometer chips.

In that view, transitioning from the 14- to 10-nanometer to a 7-nanometer chip, while very hard to achieve, is not that big of a transition.

From a 14- to 10-nanometer to a 2- to 1-nanometer --- slightly smaller than the size of a single STRAND OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA) --- of course, WOULD BE A TRUE BREAKTHROUGH.

But materialistically, that is next to impossible, at least using the same 1-3 sets of atomic materials ("semi-conductors" materials: in this case, silicon and germanium) chip makers have been using....

http://www.ptable.com/

You should read up --- from the PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS --- on why the various properties of ATOMIC MATERIALS are good or not so good for these nano-activities...

SILICON is #14 and GERMANIUM is #32, right below Silicon.... on the TABLE... Click on the dynamic Table and it'd show you more about each ELEMENT...

[Her Lao]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/upshot/when-algorithms-discriminate.html?abt=0002&abg=0

About 10 years ago, when I was still tutoring at a private high school, I spent a week or so lazing around reading A TOUR OF THE CALCULUS and one thing the author (who happens to be a young earth creationist Jesus freak, sadly!, but who wrote well in his actual field of knowledge, mathematics, as opposed to fairy tale topics like religions which no grown up should engage in)....

And the one thing that struck me as oddly memorable and something I completely agreed with was the author's assertion that ALGORITHMS will come to define how we do things more and more ubiquitously from here on out, because as things and processes and events that we want to understand get more and more complex and farther away and deeper and smaller, we must deploy a set of SYSTEMATIZED TOOLS that help us navigate and understand whether we could or would be able to get from A to B to ... Z in the most efficient manner...

And, among other processes, ALGORITHMS help us do that extremely well...

[MadMostOfTheTime]

Post by Her Lao
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/upshot/when-algorithms-discriminate.html?abt=0002&abg=0
About 10 years ago, when I was still tutoring at a private high school, I spent a week or so lazing around reading A TOUR OF THE CALCULUS and one thing the author (who happens to be a young earth creationist Jesus freak, sadly!, but who wrote well in his actual field of knowledge, mathematics, as opposed to fairy tale topics like religions which no grown up should engage in)....
And the one thing that struck me as oddly memorable and something I completely agreed with was the author's assertion that ALGORITHMS will come to define how we do things more and more ubiquitously from here on out, because as things and processes and events that we want to understand get more and more complex and farther away and deeper and smaller, we must deploy a set of SYSTEMATIZED TOOLS that help us navigate and understand whether we could or would be able to get from A to B to ... Z in the most efficient manner...
And, among other processes, ALGORITHMS help us do that extremely well...

THE smaller it goes the more CHIP SURFACE need to make the CPU is reduced savung surfacemakes smaller DEVICE. A USB STICK that used to fit only MB is now enable to STORE GB of zero and 1. I USE to transport dozens of those 3.5 inches FLOPPY DISKS that store 1.4 MB from HOME AND THE U. OTHER STUDENT ONLY NEED 1 DISK BUT FOR ME I'M A DATA HOGER THAT 1.4MB DOES NOT FIT MT THOUSAND OF PICTURES I DECODED FROM USENET GROUPS JUST AS SCH BUT THE BINARY CAN NOT BE POST DIRECTLY TO THE GROUP SO A DECODE/ENCODE HAD TO BE USE TO SWITCH BINARY INTO ASCII/TEXT BEFORE POSTING. ONVE POSTED ONE CAN GRAB THOSE ASCII CHARACTER AND DECODE THEM INTO WONDERFUL; PICTURE AND VDO. I FILLED SEVERAL CD DISK OF 600MB EACH. TOO BAD THE U DID NOT HAVE CD BURNER TO BURN MY DATA TO CD-R SO I USE THE 3.5 FLOPPY DISKS TO MAKE THE RUN. ONCE I FILL UP MY DOZEN OF FLOPPY THAN RAN HOME TO COPY TO CD AND GO BACK TO THE U TO DECODE MORE. AT 7NM USB STICK WILL BE CHEAP IN THE 1K GB RANGE.