#computing

What @adafruit@fosstodon.org is doing, in my somewhat bilious opinion, is very typical of a #technology culture in which genuine understanding of #science has leaked almost completely away, replaced by a sort of naïve faith in #computing and programming and automation and bits and pieces ordered overnight through Amazon dot com or wherever. There's no genuine application of science or engineering going on here, just the stringing together of prefab bits, as if building a carbon dioxide meter were like building a Meccano kit or a fancy Lego model. And if the folks putting this toy together don't actually have a solid grasp of science or engineering, if they're merely bolting corporate bits together, than how much LESS understanding is being cultivated in the audiences and #market for such technical toys?

@cstross@wandering.shop @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online Moore’s Law is dead for now. I did a study a few years ago to look at what is happening and will happen in microprocessors. Short story is that traditional processor architecture is hitting end of life. Feature sizes are so small now that quantum effects are a significant factor. High speed and small size also means we are up against a thermal barrier as well. Clever approaches with System-On-a-Chip (#SOA), 3D stacking, maybe Processor-In-Memory (#PIM) and distributed multiprocessing will squeeze out more progress for maybe a decade. After that comes the next computing revolution — a shift to non-Von Neumann #computing. #Quantum has the spotlight because that’s the really big win, but there are other approaches that are likely to be commercially viable before quantum is mature. I’m optimistic about the tech, less so about the rate of adoption and change that will be required, especially if the most talented early- career computer scientists and engineers keep chasing the associative/statistical methods that include LLMs.