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Yes, once I can put in the delivery details something like '7 medium size bananas, with no bruising, varying in ripeness from almost ready to still slightly green' and let a robot at the other end sort it out I'll be happy.

The initial grouping of 'pack of organic bananas' with individual bananas feels like a wrong number in the pack problem; eg we typically want one a day so want to buy 7 in a weekly shop but the pack size is 5.

The EPS was a lot lower than expectation though - and I thought that was the only reason people held IBM shares, they've not traditionally grown quickly but IBM has traditionally done anything it could to get a good EPS. The other more techy side is to think that a year or so ago when everyone was climbing on AI, people were buying stocks in lots of tech companies to ride that wave; some companies (Nvidia, Samsung, Micron etc) are making a fortune from it. IBM? It's got some things it can point to it's doing in AI but it's not the big beneficiary of this wave.

Well I wouldn't pay for it to be idle; if you want to ensure you have the ability to do it, then you buy some proportion of it's potential output at their increased costs; but while that's happening you work on all the reasons it's more expensive.

That might have been a bargain if you could have done it during peak Covid. Having the capability to make them is worth a lot in resilience.

Yeh I don't know why the emphasise the 'neural engine' - it's their stonking RAM bandwidth that just blows everything else out of the water.

The 1937 construction picture with the horses is a great contrast of technologies.

Nested virt on x86 is curiously painful; you'd kind of think each layer would be isolated, so that the L0 (hardware) would only have to worry about it's VM (L1), and L1 would have to worry about it's VM (L2); but nope - the L0 top level hypervisor sees faults from the L2 and has to figure out that they are actually L2 not L0. IMHO the extra complexity (and historical flakiness of it) - makes me say that enabling nesting is a bad idea for public VM hosts.

As I understand it, that they've gone back to the point of making the ovary and the egg itself is going through Meiosis helps here, because it's got the randomness of picking genes between the pair of chromosomes in the source. So it's not just a clone; it's a little more natural than if they tried to produce the egg directly.

Very impressive work!

(Hmm, I wonder if this can be done for chicken eggs)

I love that it's a 'tape' - I assume in reference to the early telegraph tapes/tickers: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33749...

Do you need to fit that many sensors around the edge or can you rotate the ring of fewer sensors?

Yeh, it had 'kerfuffle' as one of the last words but that's very common. Yet it had Zenzizenzizenzic (which I'd never heard of but I think I guessed it right)

It really could do with a summary showing the answers you made and corrections for what you got wrong.

nice work although, the level of marketing of calling your device 'high density...17 quantum devices' or having the bold '50 devices in the last four weeks' - does say there's some way to go!

It's a very long contract (till 2029) for just covering themselves for supply.

You do have to worry/wonder how many people are in psych hospitals, jail, or 6ft under when something like this might be the reason.

one of the articles lines is more generally interesting 'In mammals, neurons in the spleen can communicate with macrophages, and in both mammals and birds, these neurons also connect to the central nervous system.'.

you mean just like the Document editors or email systems these days? (or cloudflare etc etc)

Perhaps the uncertainty is more to do with the public being able to see this new tech; think what's happened in those 30 years, some of which you as a techie would have been well aware of but most people were clueless about. Those of us using PDAs at the time, most of the public didn't imagine constant wireless connectivity and powerful computers in their pockets. Networked games, neat tricks bunches of geeks ran at the time; today everywhere. Is AI really that much of an outlier other than public knowledge?

Yeh if you want to improve the screening rate then someone needs to figure out how to make the prep easier.

Yeh there's lots of fun things like this; PDF is a full programming language so I think in principal you can generate PDFs that display different things to different people depending on the tools used etc. I've heard it said some of the incorrect text mapping stuff has been used in the past as a copy-protection silly to stop people copy/pasting content. (It's also a pain for those using screen readers).

So hmm this allows 'electronic or digital' information to be examined - so you're fine transporting your information read out on cine film?

Ah yes, that would be what I was thinking of; I think I saw one somewhere in Manchester as a kid.

Wasn't there a short period where they changed the colour? I'm thinking it was a beige thing - in the 80s???

Oh yeh i grew up on a lot of those; add Silent Running in as well!

Were the ICU nurse and Doctor trained for the tandem jump previously - I've not seen that said in any of the stories published. Or did they just find a random ICU nurse and Doctor who was up for it?

A search for patents by Stephen Morein who is listed as the CTO of SAIMEMORY shows this one, assigned to Intel, and published strangely close to the press release;

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20260040969A1/en

It talks there about 'Z axis memory' rather than angle, and that one is talking about inductive stuff through stacks of vias.

he's also got: https://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week02/OG/html/1542-2/US125...

He obviously likes thinking about stacks of dies.

Haha it's a fun finding though; The source control comment feels a little off; I'm sure there were SCCS (hmm or did cvs use similar?) still around at that time.

It's going to make for an interesting future age verification problem; For a few years it'll be easy, because it's still only going to be asking people under say 25 for proof; but then in a few decades it's going to be people trying to figure out if there customer is over 40 say.

Damn that's very impressive - for a long time Android had a lot of hopeless accelrometer, audio scope, etc apps, and it's always been hard to add your own stuff to it. Sounds very very neat!