🔮 Moore's Law; ML & work; solar panels in space; ants ++ #391

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♟️ Farewell, Moore’s Law (or not)
Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, has declared that “Moore’s law is dead” and “[a] 12-inch wafer is a lot more expensive today. The idea that the chip is going to go down in price is a story of the past.”

But what does this actually mean?

Moore’s Law is a slippery idea. In practice, it speaks to the ability to cram more transistors onto a single wafer. More transistors per square inch means more computing power. It was this miniaturisation that drove computing improvements. Moore’s Law became a “social fact” which propelled the industry forward, drove costs down, and made computers ubiquitous. 

The ide…