Now it is working again. I have tried it with several browsers when the page was not available and with not one browser it worked.I just tried and it works for me, maybe your cache needs a tidy up?
Maybe the server had a problem.
Now it is working again. I have tried it with several browsers when the page was not available and with not one browser it worked.I just tried and it works for me, maybe your cache needs a tidy up?
The first think that comes to mind is that there is limited number of Bitcoins issued, whereas there is no limit on the number of shares Brainchip will issueoff topic
During my regular rounds for TLG through Swedish press, I found this anecdote. A friend of mine had only thrown away 8 at the time.)
"Oops – he happened to throw bitcoin worth billions at the dump
Just over ten years ago, a hard drive with thousands of bitcoins ended up in landfills. Now a British man is waging a desperate battle against his hometown to try to get them back.
16 October 2024
Some decisions can be regretted for the rest of your life. Just ask James Howells, a computer engineer who lives in the Welsh city of Newport in the UK.
Just over ten years ago, Howells and his then-partner decided to throw away various broken gadgets from his home office. One of the things that went into a black garbage bag was one of several hard drives that collected dust in a desk drawer.
Had 7,500 bitcoin in crypto wallet
The next day, the partner went to the city's landfill. James Howells didn't think any more about it – but that would change.
As a technology enthusiast, Howells had taken an early interest in the cryptocurrency bitcoin. In a couple of years, his holdings had grown to 7,500 bitcoin. He stored these in a crypto wallet in the form of a hard drive that was in his office.
In the fall of 2013, his digital treasure cache was worth the equivalent of just over $14.6 million. At that time, James Howells began to suspect trouble. What had actually happened to the storage unit that contained all the bitcoins?
To his dismay, Howells discovered that he had accidentally mixed up his hard drives during the deep cleaning. The one with all the bitcoins was no longer at home – but had ended up in the dump, writes The New Yorker .
Must go through 100 tons of rubbish
Since then, James Howells has waged an increasingly desperate battle, trying to convince Newport City Council to dig up the landfill to snoop on the hard drive. According to his own statement, Howells has offered the city to put together a team that can dig through 100 tons of garbage.
He has also promised a juicy ransom: If he gets his way and the storage device is found, the city will pay ten percent of what the crypto coins are worth.
Newport has so far ignored James Howell's repeated applications. Therefore, he has now decided to sue the city for just over SEK 6 billion – a sum that corresponded to the value of SEK 7,500 when the application was submitted.
"The municipality is sitting on my stolen property"
According to Newport's municipal council, the work would cost at least SEK 135 million and is estimated to take between 18 and 36 months to complete. After the excavation, it would also require at least another year of work to restore the soil on and around the soptation.
"The municipal executive board has made it clear to James Howells several times that the excavation is impossible to carry out. It would also cause a major environmental impact on surrounding areas," says a spokesperson from the city of Newsport in a comment.
But Howells doesn't give up. If the hard drive were to be found, he estimates that there is still an 80 percent chance that the digital coins can be retrieved from it.
"I see it as the municipality has been sitting on my stolen property for ten years," James Howells told The Sun ."
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Hoppsan – han råkade slänga bitcoin värda miljarder på tippen
För drygt tio år sedan hamnade en hårddisk med tusentals bitcoin på soptippen. Nu för en brittisk man en desperat kamp mot sin hemstad för att försöka få dem tillbaka.www.nyteknik.se
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A lot to think about McH,Hi @JB49, as I understand it BRN are using several programming models to support the various iterations of Akida, but have wondered myself why a single format could not be implemented/devised.
But the main reason I'm replying is to say that the video you put up Tuesday (post #90,294) regarding Intel and Loihi is quite definitive, with Mike Davies saying that his view is that: Loihi "Is quite some time away" with an emphasis on the "quite" - which made it very clear that it will be no time soon.
Your post came after @Bravo had posted (#90,274) regarding Mercedes working on a project with Intel, being the Naomi4 project which also included working with Univ of Waterloo Canada and Prof Chris Eliasmith, I was initially disappointed, but on reflection realized this is a current research project.
The important fact is that BRN have been partnered with Mercedes for several years and Akida is the only neuromorphic chip that is ready to go. However after watching the video you put up, I don't think anyone will be putting Loihi into a product any time soon, regardless there will be a lot of businesses who will be looking at Loihi because Intel have such a pre-eminent position in chip making.
Which of course goes back to the challenge facing BRN with regard to introducing a disruptive new technology in a business environment dominated by titans like Intel et al.
The big player will never see a curt from the inside! If one Projekt fails, they start a new one. Building up a system with new little fishes. In our eyes maybe big player but for the real bosses just marionettes… just imagine what we are in their eyes…As in politics, religion, society and all human constructs, corruption is inherent in the system.
Doesn't mean that its either all bad or that it cannot be improved, but big change is unlikely in my view.
The system is well protected by those, behind those, whose hands are on the levers, who gain directly the most, from the current settings.
Bit like the state of our cockeyed housing market.
Any government trying to initiate any meaningful change will be crucified at the polls by the majority of voters who want their primary asset to keep appreciating as opposed to the minority currently struggling for a foothold in the market.
The mistake was designating housing not as necessary and required shelter but as wealth enhancement, and then designing and entrenching systems which perverted the tax function towards that end.
Hi Draed,I was reading an article about one of the problems AI is facing (sorry, I dont have the link). It was about how most of the data available on the internet has been reviewed and classified and incorporated into models already. The challenge moving forward is generating and capturing new data to continuously improve these models.
My question to the group is. Could we foresee our akida products being used in combination with other more sophisitcated but power hungry chips or software.
For example with mercades. Our chip or software at the edge and at the sensor. Quick, and power efficient inference done in realtime on input like voice activation, learning someones accent, vocal manerisms etc. But then that more refined data is processed in larger and more power hungry systems in the car or cloud for model improvements.
I see pico being such a device. Not intended to run independently. But more of a extreme edge device at the sensor, that just does data collection and refinement, but doesn't make any decisions on anything...
I might be way off. But that's my impression.
Cheers
Draed
FF Posted an interesting link on the crapfest worth a read!
MegaChips still in play...
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BrainChip’s Akida Pico neural processing unit, which leverages spiking neural networks, targets low-power IoT and edge-computing devices.www.electronicdesign.com
FF Posted an interesting link on the crapfest worth a read!
MegaChips still in play...
Good posts @overpup And @CHIPS . Always good to have info even if reposted as some may have missed it.Yawn…
We’ve known about this for almost two months:
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Even FF himself had posted about this paper before- he loves to rehash old news/academic papers/podcasts/videos and hardly ever posts anything novel these days that hasn’t already been posted here on TSE.
That’s why @Fullmoonfever recently made this comment:
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Hi @Frangipani I think it should be noted in my view as how many Employees who. has been instrumental in Brainchip's success has left within short span of time. People may say for better pay but i for one differ in this view, one need to be happy where they are working, We often say Employee dont leave the company they leave their managers right?Another of our Laguna Hills engineers leaving without having another job lined up…
It should be noted that he has since been given glowing references from his former BrainChip colleagues.
Nevertheless, he seems to have been unhappy in his job for quite a while (see his 4 month old LinkedIn comment)… What is going on?
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