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FairAndUnbiased

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Eventine said:
In anything software related, iteration is fast and so the field moves fast, but the barrier of entry is low and "secret sauce" is worth much less, since it's not hard or expensive to test out different techniques. However, I disagree on it not being sophisticated. Algorithmic research is fairly close to "pure math" and no one would claim math isn't one of the most sophisticated fields in the world.

In semiconductors - and really, any hardware industry - "secret sauce" is more common because iteration speed is slow and barrier of entry is high, so companies hide their results, theoretic research moves slow, and things like optics and material sciences just need to be worked out with time rather than brilliance. A machine has to be constructed and tested on the order of months; while an algorithm can be coded up and tested in days or even hours.

The iteration speed explains this perception that software isn't "complicated." Both fields advance by trial and error at the cutting edge, but trial and error is just that much faster and cheaper in software than hardware.
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It costs way way less to build a state of the art materials lab than a data center. $30-40 million maybe? If you want some more expensive instruments or more in house process tools, maybe $50-60 million? Peanuts compared to a data center, Meta just built a $800 million data center outside DC.

You can hire 2-3 materials scientists with MS/PhD for the price of 1 software engineer. Last I checked an Engineer 3 at Applied Materials (MS required PhD preferred) makes 1/3 vs a BS junior software engineer at Meta. The payroll of a small side project team at Meta can hire you an entire Applied Materials lab's staff and their manager.

The difference is once you have your materials lab, it doesn't produce much money. Outsourced lab services is low margin work while internal product R&D is a cost center for a very long time. Once your product is developed, there are only so many customers for i.e. a Mo/Si multilayer mirror.

Meanwhile something as low tech as Flappy Bird can make billions.

This is why there was the slogan 做导弹不如做茶叶蛋 back in the 1980s China.
 
Chevalier

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Ringsword said:
I swear indians can't restrain themselves from spouting shit even for a week-I hope China has some sort of killswitch on these delusional morons and just shut them down and shut them up.
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It’s called VX gas and it was developed by their beloved British.
tygyg1111 said:
After Chinese EUV is complete I believe we will start gradually seeing more activities happening outside China's borders, one of which is the rekindling of religious based conflict in India from both the Pakistan and Myanmar fronts. Splitting India into religious based entities is the best thing that could happen for the world, as it opens a huge market for trading, and allows a conflict to be controlled and maintained perpetually - the two vectors creating a lever to prevent the attention of the locals from ever turning outwards.
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its also the perfect time to split the northeast regions from the rapey clutches of india.
siegecrossbow said:
That’s what you call China Speed.
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China Speed is like “Desert Power” in frank Herbert’s Dune.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1885309619163324595

Musk better watch himself around China, he shouldn’t think being a white man makes him immune from being “Jack Ma’d”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1885411371141214230

This is what I mean, the “all of society” response the Anglo Zionist elites have towards China is that of a race war with all of its implications ie death camps, genocide, mestizo-isation. Things like XHS and revealing differences in living conditions towards the American public can break the will to fight against China, but remember as well that the Xiongnu also displayed the same sort of attitudes towards the Han as well and that fight was no less existential.
 
siegecrossbow

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Chevalier said:
It’s called VX gas and it was developed by their beloved British.

its also the perfect time to split the northeast regions from the rapey clutches of india.

China Speed is like “Desert Power” in frank Herbert’s Dune.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1885309619163324595

Musk better watch himself around China, he shouldn’t think being a white man makes him immune from being “Jack Ma’d”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1885411371141214230

This is what I mean, the “all of society” response the Anglo Zionist elites have towards China is that of a race war with all of its implications ie death camps, genocide, mestizo-isation. Things like XHS and revealing differences in living conditions towards the American public can break the will to fight against China, but remember as well that the Xiongnu also displayed the same sort of attitudes towards the Han as well and that fight was no less existential.
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They are scared that China might draw a giant sky dong with the drones and violate US air space.
 
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d3dx9

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Can anyone recommend some YouTube channels worth following in the fields of military affairs, technology, and geopolitics? YouTube's recommendations in these areas have been pretty terrible for me.
 
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