From the article:
a human hand has about 17,000 low-threshold mechanoreceptors in the glabrous skin (where hair doesn’t grow) of the hand, with about 1,000 of them right at the tip of each finger, but with much lower density over the rest of each finger and over the palm. These receptors come in four varieties (slow vs fast adapting, and a very localized area of sensitivity vs a much larger area) and fire when they sense pressure applied or released.
Naturalistic fallacies will only carry you so far. For example, my 12 year old car has none of the incredibly adapted limbs and muscles of a cheetah, but can still easily exceed the animal land speed.
The article makes a compelling case that a certain kind of sensory input and learning is necessary to crack robotic movement in general, it remains to be seen if such a fine array of sensors as the human hand is useful outside very specific use-cases. A robot that can stock shelves reliably would still be immensely useful and very generalizable, even if it can't thread the needle due to limited fine sensory abilities.
Title of the article you're commenting:
Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity
Thesis the article is contradicting:
The idea is that humanoid robots will share the same body plan as humans, and will work like humans in our built for human environment. This belief requires that instead of building different special purpose robots we will have humanoid robots that do everything humans can do.
You are now arguing that a specialized robot lacking dexterity would still be immensely useful. Nobody is disputing that. It's just not what the article is about.
A methane molecule is one carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms. More than half of the energy released by burning it (53% according to [1]) comes from oxidizing the hydrogen to water. So it's roughly half as bad as coal in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, and does not have the additional problems of sulfur (acid rain) and soot.
With that logic, humans aren't climate friendly and should be transitioned away from
Different shades of grey. We'll always cause pollution as part of being. I don't believe that the person above meant it as a final solution to keep burning fossil fuels
At that point human life isn't climate friendly... everyone wants to live like the average american with 2 cars and 4 ac units per households, when Asia and Africa come for their fair share, even if they only claim 25% of it, we're fucked, no amount of battery or solar panel will make this consumeristic and "growth forever" mentality sustainable, because by definition it is a boundless quest. Half of the world still live like medieval peasants with less than $7 a day, this is just the beginning
A quick search on the NH-U9S shows it's a compact cooler for small systems, rated for up to 140 W (see e.g. [1]).
The 9950X's TDP (Thermal Design Power) is 170 W, its default socket power is 200 W [2], and with PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive) enabled it's been reported to hit 235 W [3].
> Noctua does not use TDP for their heatsinks and instead have CPU compatibility charts.
Reviewers and sellers do, though. Here are a few more: [1][2][3][4]
The highest rating is from [1], which says
You cannot access the TDP guide from here, but we will tell you that it displays 140W TDP; however, it also says you can overclock that to closer to 160W or 180W TDP overall.
AVADirect advertises it as good for 115W [4].
It also beggars belief that a single 92mm fan would suffice to cool a 9950X, when the best 120 and 140 mm air coolers just barely reach 240W [5]. The only Noctua in that review, the 140mm NH-D15S, gets to 233W.
> They say it's fine, with "medium turbo/overclocking headroom"
That’s a good catch, but don’t modern CPUs thermally throttle, rather than risk damage? Not that you should rely on this with an underpowered cooling solution but I would expect worse performance, not a fried chip.
There thermal paste on the whole CPU in TFA, it's just thinner on one side because there was more pressure there. Or are you looking at the pic of the heat sink, which is larger than the CPU heat spreader and thus only partially covered by paste?
Bringing back memories of testing the breakers in my college apartments to verify exactly which outlets were on which circuit, so I could pool as much as possible as needed. I distinctly remember pulling 20kw once, celebrating with a beer; the memory of all those cables snaking through the old apartment makes me almost uneasy now. I do remember we didn’t have to pay for heat that winter; which felt like a major win in Massachusetts. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure there are still some servers tucked away in a crawlspace in that basement.
Where can you buy the artificial equivalent?