News Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers

[jeremyj_83]

Is that in comparison to the Dell list price, because those machines are crazy-overpriced compared even to what I can build with parts from Newegg! Obviously, Dell servers have some features you won't get from a Supermicro or Tyan server board, but if we're just talking about the cost of the hardware, there are some cushy margins already built into those things.

On the other hand, if you're talking about relative to the "white box" price that it would cost me to order an OCP-spec machine, then a 50% markdown from that is indeed quite impressive!

The Dell configuration tool is pathetically overpriced. Buying a single Dell server from a VAR will already be 50% less than that tool. I'm getting more along something like Thinkmate or CDW/Wiredzone for embedded servers in terms of retail pricing.

 

[colloquialColon]

Alternatively they scanned 1 cubic centimeter of a tik tokers brain and it only took 1.6 kb of storage.

 

[jeremyj_83]

Alternatively they scanned 1 cubic centimeter of a tik tokers brain and it only took 1.6 kb of storage.

That seems to be too much for an influencer. I would have figured it was only 1.6 Bytes required.

 

[Dntknwitall]

That seems to be too much for an influencer. I would have figured it was only 1.6 Bytes required.

Stop being so generous. They might actually thank you. Or k!ll you and claim self defense!

 

[vanadiel007]

Your argument belongs to a religion called Gnosticism.

If we were living in a simulation, there would be a long Inception chain of simulated worlds, one inside of each other, but we should be the first one (where all others are simulated) or the last one, (simulated inside all others), since we cannot yet simulate sentient worlds.

Hence the probability of being simulated is practically zero.

I was trying to point out that if you zoom in on atoms, the basic building blocks of everything we know, you will see spaces between the individual components making up an atom.

So unless we zoom in on the space and see what that is actually made off, I don't see how there could be nothing, unless the atom is a basic building block of a simulation the way pixels are the basic building block of a monitor screen.