I appears that this academic is very good at public relations.
They mix interrupts and polling depending on the load. The interrupt service routine and user-kernel context-switch overhead is tiny computationally and hence in power usage.
Also, most network hardware in the last twenty years has had buffer coalescing, reducing interrupt rates.
Bird neurons are typically around 40% of the length, or 1/9 the volume of mammalian neurons. This means they have around 9x the number of neurons per unit volume.
A large parrot has around the same number of neurons as a beagle dog.
Combined with weight savings, this may allow their brains to work faster, which is useful for a flight computer.
Birds have other features which are superior to mammals. For example, their flow-through lungs allow for more efficient gas exchange.
However, having to fly means weight reduction has been a big driver of evolutionary compromises. A bird that can fly cannot carry large fat reserves around. They are not resilient when sick and often die quickly after the onset of visible symptoms.
Your comment made me think of cheetahs. An article once claimed that the biggest reason for cheetahs to perish in the wild was that at the speed they're running, even a minor mistake means they'll take a tendon-tearing or bone-breaking tumble, and their speed-optimized bodies are relatively fragile. Once they're injured, they are no longer fast, and thus lose their one and only predatory advantage.
Humans really are surprisingly strongly generalist, in ways many other animals are not.
Sounds like a tradeoff to me. Shorter neurons probably means fast operation and small size, but reduced regional and global connectivity. From the little I know about brains, this would imply things like reduced creativity.
I've had a similar experience. Most of the people I've worked with are 4-6 out of 10. But I suppose that's a normal distribution.
I've encountered a few 1's and 2's but they generally don't last too long. I've also encountered a few brilliant ones, but their code was understandable only to themselves, and often didn't meet a spec.
Yes. That's what I said "Devaluing dollar does not reduce debt measured in dollar"
The US would still have to pay the debt in Dollars. Devaluation affects currency exchange rates. Debt would be less valuable in Yen and Renminbi but just as expensive for the US government.
Doesn't Europe and Japan have dollar swap lines with US? So ultimately it is US buying its own bonds through Japan to create an illusion that there exists enough external demand.
The original somebody was likely the US Secret service, who are also responsible for US dollar currency forgery policing.
When color printers/copiers first appeared there was a concern about people photocopying money. The old joke was that your color photocopier "would pay for itself in no time".
Not to mention failure to accurately print what you sent to the printer. There must be some use case where these "invisible" dots actually undermine the intended output.
I agree, but I think these countries don’t actually have free speech. I don’t care if I disagree with these positions. I will protest to defend their right to say it, otherwise I will lose mine as well.
this is what the "fine tuning" space relies upon for infinite permutations of base models a moment after every release, and what larger organizations are also doing to create their base models
They mix interrupts and polling depending on the load. The interrupt service routine and user-kernel context-switch overhead is tiny computationally and hence in power usage.
Also, most network hardware in the last twenty years has had buffer coalescing, reducing interrupt rates.
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