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[BTGBullseye]

If illegal downloading is stealing, then reading a crime novel in a library is murder.

[Twilight Sparkle]

It's like I'm looking into the very eyes of Satan...

 

 

 

[BTGBullseye]

[Woah_G!]

Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from problems ranging from less-than-ideal battery power to total transistor failure.

Until now, even a single fault has often rendered an integrated-circuit chip completely useless. The Caltech engineers wanted to give integrated-circuit chips a healing ability akin to that of our own immune system -- something capable of detecting and quickly responding to any number of possible assaults in order to keep the larger system working optimally. The power amplifier they devised employs a multitude of robust, on-chip sensors that monitor temperature, current, voltage, and power. The information from those sensors feeds into a custom-made application-specific integrated-circuit (ASIC) unit on the same chip, a central processor that acts as the "brain" of the system. The brain analyzes the amplifier's overall performance and determines if it needs to adjust any of the system's actuators -- the changeable parts of the chip.

Interestingly, the chip's brain does not operate based on algorithms that know how to respond to every possible scenario. Instead, it draws conclusions based on the aggregate response of the sensors. "You tell the chip the results you want and let it figure out how to produce those results,"

 

Self-healing circuits make me erratically giddy, as does the potential for Asteroid mining.

[BTGBullseye]

[Arby]

pay attention to the subtitles

 

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[BTGBullseye]

 

That isn't a photoshop.

[danielsangeo]

Then how did they create the demotivational?

[danielsangeo]

The machines are taking over!

 

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[Pinkie Pie]

I'm sure he'll live...

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[Psychotic Ninja]

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[Arby]

[BTGBullseye]

[Alyxx Thorne]

[Psychotic Ninja]

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[Collective Foal]

[BTGBullseye]

A cat just sat on my shoulder, and said: "hi".

[Woah_G!]

[BTGBullseye]

If you make a sandwich using a woman, you're making a sandwich using a woman.

[Jek Jek Roo]

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