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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Hands down the best ever 25,000 year old selfie from Pech Merle cave in southern France. (The Ice Age) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 35%: US traffic is now IPV6; 10^161: decision points in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Jackson Pollock painting? Cortical column? Nope, it's a 2 trillion particle cosmological simulation using 4000+ GPUs. (paper, Joachim Stadel, UZH) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1.8x: faster code on iPad MacBook Pro; 1
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Afraid of AI? Fire ants have sticky pads so they can form rafts, build towers, cross streams, & order takeout. We can CRISPR these guys to fight Skynet. (video, video, paper) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon.
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: We've seen algorithms expressed in seeds. Here's an algorithm for taking birth control pills expressed as packaging. Awesome history on 99% Invisible. If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2 trillion: web requests served
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: What's real these days? I was at Lascaux II, an exact replica of Lascaux. I was deeply, deeply moved. Was this an authentic experience? A question we'll ask often in VR I think. If you like this sort of Stuff
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Sport imitating tech. Cloud Computing chases down Classic Empire to win...the Preakness. (Daily News) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 42%: increase US wireless traffic since 2015; 44: age of Ethernet; $18.5m: low cost of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Who wouldn't want to tour the Garden of Mathematical Sciences with Plato as their guide? If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 2 billion: Android users; 1,000: cloud TPUs freely available to researchers; 11.5
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Earth's surface is covered with accidental hidden letters. Can you find them? (ABC: The Alphabet from the Sky)If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 1 million: cord cutters in Q1; 500 billion: FINRA validations of
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: GPUs and CPUs run hot hot hot. See them in action with thermal imaging. (Tested)If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 25ms: SpaceX satellite latency; 17 million: tax returns received by IRS during week ending April 21;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Do you understand the power symbol? I always think of O as a circuit being open, or off, and the | as the circuit being closed, or on. Wrong! Really the symbols are binary, 0 for false, or off, 1 for true, or on. Mind
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Which do you see: Machines freeing people? Lost jobs? Slavery? Hyperactive Skittles? If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * year 1899: “Nobody has to use the Internet”; 12MPH: Speed news of Lincoln's assassination traveled the US;
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: After 20 years, Cassini will not go gently into that good night, it will burn and rave at close of day. (nasa) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 10^15: synapses activated per second in human brain