Guess I’ll say that next time I have a conversation like https://lemmy.ml/post/29976729/18561606 and avoid the downvotes.

long-awaited plans for an affordable car

You mean the 1, ONE, single, as in nothing else really matter, thing that gave any modicum of decency to Musk despite all this BS over the years and was again the very reason one could have been excited about him making Tesla so much more famous (not popular, as in… affordable) is actually not happening? Sorry, in Musk parlance, is happening next year?

shocked Pikachu face

I honestly feel disgusted because, even though I do not have a car, when Musk on ramped Tesla I was cheering for him. I do NOT think cars are the solution BUT if we have no other choice, I was naively thinking electric cars, specifically NOT fancy elitism expensive coupe or sedans, but rather affordable ones was one potential path. Meanwhile, years later, if I look by the window outside where I live, in Belgium, we do have electric plugs in the street (nice!) which are sadly used by a … fancy EV. At the same time in the city center the silent (literally) revolution have been electric bikes, especially cargo bikes and longtails. So many of those now used.

So tiring that CEOs of large company can claim vaporware constantly without any consequences. It’s damaging to entire ecosystem they overshadow. They already have economical power by their cheer scale but they also abuse the mindshare of potential customers and regulators. We need to hold them accountable to false claims, claims that are indefinitely delayed and it has to hurt the bottom line of their companies.

The propaganda aspect is import so I’m adding this to a reply rather than yet another edit.

This research is interesting. What the article tries to do isn’t clarifying the work rather than put a nation “first”. Other nations do that too. That’s not a good thing. We should celebrate research as a better understanding of our world, both natural and engineered. We should share what has been learned and built on top of each other.

Now when a nation, being China, or the US, or any other country, is saying they are “first” and “ahead” of anybody else, it’s to bolster nationalistic pride. It’s not to educate citizens on the topic. It’s important to be able to disentangle the two regardless of the source.

That’s WHY I’m being so finicky about facts in here. It’s not that I care about the topic particularly, rather it’s about the overall political process, not the science.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify all that.

It’s not a typo because the paper itself does mention 3090 as a benchmark.

I do tinker with FPGAs at home, for the fun of if (I’m no expert but the fact that I own few already shows that I know more about the topic than most people who don’t even know what it is, or what it’s for) so I’m quite aware of what some of the benefits (and trade of) can be. It’s an interesting research path (again, otherwise I wouldn’t even have invested my own resources to learn more about that architecture in the first place) so I’m not criticizing that either.

What I’m calling BS on… is the title and the “popularization” (and propaganda, let’s be honest here) article. Qualifying a 5 years old chip as flagship (when, again, it never was) and implying what the title does, is wrong. It’s overblown otherwise interesting work. That being said, I’m not surprised, OP share this kind of things regularly, to the point that I ended up blocking him.

Edit: not sure if I really have to say so but the 4090, in March 2025, is NOT the NVIDIA flagship, that’s 1 generation behind. I’m not arguing for the quality of NVIDIA or AMD or whatever chip here. I’m again only trying to highlight the sensationalization of the article to make the title look more impressive.

Edit2: the 5090, in March 2025 again, is NOT even the flagship in this context anyway. That’s only for gamers… but here the article, again, is talking about “energy-efficient AI systems” and for that, NVIDIA has an entire array of products, from Jetson to GB200. So… sure the 3090 isn’t a “bad” card for a benchmark but in that context, it is no flagship.

PS: taking the occasion to highlight that I do wish OP to actually go to China, work and live there. If that’s their true belief and they can do so, to not solely “admire” a political system from the outside, from the perspective of not participating to it, but rather give up on their citizenship and do move to China.

Well, I honestly tried (cf history). You’re neither addressing my remark about the fact from the article nor the bigger picture. Waste of time, blocked.

Unfortunately my model isn’t supported. I might look for a 2nd hand supported one with the USB adapter and try, as I do use and work with Linux on a daily basis.

Based on https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1jb2uvt/roomba_accidentally_saw_outside_and_now_i_cant/ I’d bet some models surely do.

That being said, I am NOT promoting Roomba or any other brand, I’m only highlighting that apps aren’t necessarily a requirement for the basic feature.

Finally, as others suggested if one genuinely does need such feature and is mindful about privacy, I’d check https://valetudo.cloud/ first then see what harder supports it, which sadly doesn’t seem to support Roomba or Roborock AFAICT. It does, lucky you, check https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html#roborock

Edit: apparently “Xiaomi V1 is made by Roborock” according to https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html so maybe there is way, worth investigating for you IMHO.

turns out you can use older GPUs in creative ways to get a lot more out of them than people realized

If that’s the point then that’s the entire GPU used for mining then ML revolution, thanks to CUDA mostly, that already happened in 2010 so that’s even older, that’d 15 yeas ago.

What I was highlighting anyway is that it’s hard to trust an article where simple facts are wrong.

What is this… “Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU”? Are we in back in 2020? Half a decade ago? Is this a joke? Even then, it wasn’t the flagship, the 3090 Ti was.

Is there a Murena/Volla of vacuuming robots? Namely can one buy a working robot (new or reconditioned) with Valetudo pre-installed?

FWIW you can use a Roomba without an app. You… push the physical button on the robot, and voila. No app, no connection, still cleaning.

Sure you can’t schedule cleaning but honestly unless you have a version that can empty it’s own trash recipient and your house is always robot cleaning friendly (so… 0 cable on the way, chairs aside, etc) it’s rarely a huge efficiency gain.

Honestly I feel like 10y/o there was a lot of hype around vacuuming robot but it didn’t “explode” in popularity because it’s not really such a big difference.

Blocked, you’re just trying to be provocative instead of having a constructive discussion. I don’t have time to waste on that so don’t bother replying to my comments, I won’t see what you write anymore.

In case any parent is reading this and feels (somehow!) like “Oh no… my child will be left behind!” to the point of considering buying some BS humanoid or animaloid “pedagogical” robot, get yourself a (European designed) good “old” Lego set! They’ve been at it for decades (literally, since at least 1998 with Mindstorms) and they focus specifically on pedagogy at school with e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-education-spike-essential-set-45345

Do NOT get a cheap piece of plastic that you do not understand, that behaves in “smart” ways you can’t explain and that passes data long you have no idea about!

"Timmy hugged his little robot friend before heading to bed. He doesn’t have a name for it – yet.

“It’s like a little teacher or a little friend,” the boy said, as he showed his mum the next move he was considering on the chess board."

… it’s way WORST than a fail. How do you think this human will develop assuming friendship with a (commercial) product rather than another human being? My bet, but I’m no psychologist, is poorly.

That opening photo is so telling, a chess robot … while one could literally run https://lichess.org/ from ANY device (tablet, mobile phone, laptop, etc) and have a functionally equivalent experience for free (both open source and free of cost, no ad either), in fact arguably a much better one due 0 setup time (literally none, it’s all Web based!) to all the community, tutoring exercises, etc.

This is such a blatant fail.

IMHO that’s the linchpin, what’s the gap between what a leader (political or business) would claim to be true versus… what’s actually working, and beyond that, what’s actually useful then used in practice.

Working in innovation we called this the “marketing gap” and it’s quite a funnel, from broad claim that AI or any other emerging technology will “change everything” to what people, workers and consumers alike, actually use frequently and are wiling to pay for.

One needs bold claims, even if false, to get votes or funding money.

added AI to its products basically to receive government subsidies.

Damn, I opened this post bracing myself for BS comments praising AI slop but this was actually interesting, thanks for sharing! Do you have any references (in English ideally) where I could read about such trends there, not propaganda & tech marketing like that BBC piece?

FWIW since 2003 https://imec-publications.be/discover?scope=%2F&query=bismuth&submit=&rpp=10&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=asc

Again… I didn’t even read the article but “[redacted to remove bias] University researchers have developed [better] than leading [whatever].” is definitely interesting yet also pointless. Of course research is important, even fundamental, to the production process… but it’s not a fair comparison because production, at scale, and economically reliable requires a LOT more constraints!

So the research, regardless of the source, is welcomed but comparing to production rather than comparing to other research labs pushing limits on the same dimensions is not useful.

PS: for my starting “Again” see my post history.

Edit : AFAICT “outperforms the most advanced commercial chips from […] Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre.” IMEC doesn’t do commercial chips, just research.

with 9100 being 6nm

For historical context TSMC announced 7nm in 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process and 5nm in 2020, so 5 years ago.