Life isn't about the brain it's about the body, brains came much later in the evolutionary process. I like tuning up the senses and tuning down the cognition, at many points overthinking doesn't help much. Often lateral thinking can offer answers.
The world wouldn't come to an end or anything, but if we didn't have so many cutting edge chips, we'd generally be spending more money to use lesser chips to perform fewer and lesser tasks while consuming more resources to do so.
They reduce power consumption and thermal management needs. That means more compute per a given battery constraint or thermal envelope. High-end mobile phones and laptops benefit.
increased synchronization between stations should allow for better beamforming to go along with the positional information, increasing throughput somewhat in the face of interference/attenuation
IIRC there is also a lot of improvement in channel multiplexing both at raw physical layer and link layers to allow e.g. numerous IoT type devices to have a low-rate cell connection without a plan.
Ah so a more robust and reliable, multi station system is formed? What's this beam forming and positional information stuff? Are they tailoring signals to individaul devices? That's so cool! This stuff is starting to feel like electro magnetic magic, haha.
yeah- they call it time-domain-multiplex (or something) when you have different phones subscribing to listen at different points in time. Traditionally only the closest station would broadcast to each phone, because multiple stations broadcasting the same frequency leads to a mushy signal (on average). BUT, if all the stations are synced, they can align the phases of their signals so that they 'constructively interfere' into a brighter signal where the target phone is. The appropriate phase difference will be different for each phone, so each time slice signal is indeed tailored to each device-- they also need to track device movement, to best target the signal while it drives/walks around.
'beamforming' is a kind of confusing term, based on how a bunch of antennas in a tight group can time their phases into a cone of signal-- functionally aiming the antenna, but without anything physically moving. When the involved antennas are not in a tight group, the 'beam' that is formed starts to look less like a cone, and more like a target 'bean'... beanforming ....
anyway this demo page can show some of how it works, ui is kind of weird, type a number and click to add/move an antenna, hit 'r' and click to place the receiving device, 'o' to align the phases for best signal..
https://apenwarr.ca/beamlab/
The pandemic has been bad in many ways but during the first lockdown i got into the habit of a nightly hour long walk. It's been a really great thing for my mind space after work each day.
Yep, wonderful thing indeed. Unfortunately it means selfishly spreading whatever plague-of-the-moment around, so some places instituted a 8pm-5am curfew to prevent these inappropriate habits from forming. Vic, AU had curfew for 5? 6? months out of the last two years. Worked wonders for some people's mind space.
I've had this happen at my current place, my pm kept raving about me and giving me alot of kudos. Another pm grabbed me and have a good relationship with her. It's nice to feel appreciated.
My favorite tech job was when I intered for a fire department doing fire mitigation inspections and ended up building them and appointment scheduling system in my spare time, as well as put together a geomapped report of the programs mitigation efforts to present to the county.
I mean my government got out a novel vaccine in a year and distributed 3 to four doses to those who have wanted it. I'm impressed. Ask any other entity in the world to accomplish that...
They are all impressive entities and I have high levels of trust for all of them in comparison to all the other institutions of the world and my own lone abilities.
I've looked at the other options, medicine, law, finance, your avg swe the best lifestyle, stress+time+creativiry to pay ratio, and flexibility around work.
