One more step toward perfection

On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:49:26 PM UTC+11, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in
> news:1778e269-4ac1-4650...@googlegroups.com:
> > On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:04:32 PM UTC+11, 
> > DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote: 
> >> Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in 
> >> news:2e9ce3bf-d7f0-4f46...@googlegroups.com: 
> >> > Really big power links are high voltage DC, and that doesn't 
> >> > generate eddy currents. 
> >> > 
> >> > The cost of AC/Dc conversion has gone down a lot in recent 
> >> > years, and lower power links may be moving over to DC too. 
> >> > 
> >> They need to be kept high and away from ground because they WILL 
> >> arc at specific distances at Megavolt values... not good! 
> > 
> > Many of the 500kV DC links are sub-sea cables. You don't have to 
> > rely on air as the only possible insulator. 
> >> 
> >> All main grid generator to grid generator links of any length 
> >> should be 
> > DC interties. 
> >> 
> >> We just have to get us and the world back on the efficiency 
> >> bandwagon in 
> > stead of this, if it works (even inefficiently), don't 'fix' it 
> > mentality. 
> >> 
> >> Did you even check out the processor video? 
> > 
> > No. I'm easily bored, and videos usually bore me silly. And if IBM 
> > really still were the top dog in computer research - if they ever 
> > ever were
> Not been keeping up then, eh? 
> 
> Before they sold the division to Hitachi, IBM was the king of write 
> density on a hard drive platter. Very advanced physics and "computer 
> research" went into their win in that realm. Perpendicular magnetic 
> recording made it possible for the drive densities and volume sizes 
> we see today. 

But they didn't discover the "very advanced physics". Giant magnetoresistance and colossal magnetoresistance fell out of academic research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance

Giant magnetoresistance reading  heads are what pushed up hard disk write densities and IBM just exploited it  with a bunch of other hard disk makers.

> And quantum computer research as well. 

Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't stick out.

> And now these optical switches. 
> 
> That bores you? OK, sure.

It does. IBM is great at telling people how clever they are. Like all organisations that have enough money to spend big on blue sky research  they do have their moments, but not all that many of them. Their public relations people don't let that inhibit them.

> >- Phil Hobbs would probably still be working for them.
>
> I am reasonably sure he would / will / has found this interesting 
> and or informative. Single photon emitters and detectors, etc. 

I've got enough sense not to try to second guess Phil Hobbs.

> Or very likely was already aware, because I am sure he gets Photonics  and other top optical realm publications.

https://www.photonicssociety.org/publications/photonics-journal

It's a peer-reviewed scientific  journal published by the IEEE. What matters to people like Phil are what components he can buy off the shelf, and academic journals aren't all that forthcoming about that.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting
> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they are
> pure clickspam bullshit.

IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into watching a
crummy lightspeed CPU video.

Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:56f81bca-1125-466b-9ac8-73e4d1e4aa35n@googlegroups.com: 

> But they didn't discover the "very advanced physics". Giant
> magnetoresistance and colossal magnetoresistance fell out of
> academic research 
> 

That is not the type of recording mode I mentioned...  at all.

I mentioned perpendicular magnetic recording, which ALL hard drive 
makers now use.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular_recording>

Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:56f81bca-1125-466b-9ac8-73e4d1e4aa35n@googlegroups.com: 

> Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't stick
> out. 
> 

  Actually, recently...  they do.

corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1@gioia.aioe.org:

> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting
>> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they
>> are pure clickspam bullshit.
> 
> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into
> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
> 
> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
> 

  Nice try.  Don't be a chump...   oops...  too late.

On 11/29/2022 15:19, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 11:49:26 PM UTC+11, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> ....
>> And quantum computer research as well.
> 
> Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't stick out.

I really don't understand what quantum computers are all about,
definitely not a replacement to "normal" computers. But IBM do
get in the news from time to time with that, so they must be
at least keeping up.

> 
>> And now these optical switches.
>>
>> That bores you? OK, sure.
> 
> It does. IBM is great at telling people how clever they are. Like all organisations that have enough money to spend big on blue sky research  they do have their moments, but not all that many of them. Their public relations people don't let that inhibit them.

The video was boring but skimming through its boring explanations
(like how a normal transistor works, things all of us have been through
in our childhood) gets you to that optical equivalent I just did not
know was at all viable. Seems the are making progress.

Then IBM have done their fair share in normal computing research,
like defining the power architecture during the 80-s. The rest of
the computer architectures have yet to catch up, most of them by
quite some stretch.

On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 6:06:17 AM UTC+11, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
> Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in
> news:56f81bca-1125-466b...@googlegroups.com:
> > Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't stick 
> > out. 
> >
> Actually, recently... they do.

Or say they do.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
> corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1@gioia.aioe.org:
> 
>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting 
>>> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they 
>>> are pure clickspam bullshit.
>> 
>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into 
>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
>> 
>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
>> 
> 
> Nice try.  Don't be a chump...   oops...  too late.

The video didn't make me go "Wow".
These do better to demonstrate what IBM can do.

IBM in atoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_%28atoms%29

A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0

Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:9e3ca2a5-b141-4231-8310-df9a38aa6528n@googlegroups.com: 

> On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 6:06:17 AM UTC+11,
> DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote: 
>> Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote in
>> news:56f81bca-1125-466b...@googlegroups.com:
>> > Lots of people are active in quantum computing. IBM doesn't
>> > stick out. 
>> >
>> Actually, recently... they do.
> 
> Or say they do.
> 

It's all about the Qbits.  Everyone started out small.  As in low 
number.

  Now things are stepping up.  IBM is right there at the forefront too.

<https://youtu.be/Szw0KwbKowI>

corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm6elo$1is$1@gioia.aioe.org:

> On 11/29/22 11:08, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
>> corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote in news:tm5jr2$1u8c$1@gioia.aioe.org:
>> 
>>> On 11/29/22 04:01, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org 
wrote:
>>>> That article you mention turned me off on ever watching anyhting 
>>>> they produce, because just from the title alone I feel that they 
>>>> are pure clickspam bullshit.
>>> 
>>> IBM's hallowed name was the clickbait used to trick me into 
>>> watching a crummy lightspeed CPU video.
>>> 
>>> Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective 
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
>>> 
>> 
>> Nice try.  Don't be a chump...   oops...  too late.
> 
> The video didn't make me go "Wow".
> These do better to demonstrate what IBM can do.
> 
> IBM in atoms
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_%28atoms%29
> 
> A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
> 

<https://youtu.be/Szw0KwbKowI>