Does thinking about the existence of pic related freak you out? There you are, a normal person who seems to be pretty excited when a simple TCP server you construct works properly, only for that euphoria to be short lived when you see how insignificant it is compared to the scope of existing technology. It's like learning Markov chains only to feel small when you look at cutting edge ML research. The effort in engineering something like the B1 is so far out of your reach, it might as well have been designed by an alien civilization. Even if you started today, you'd probably never figure out everything you needed to learn in order to create one. That's true even for the genius who designed it in the first place, since he didn't start from square 1. I suppose what I'm trying to say, is that comprehending advanced technology is mind blowing.
Comprehending advanced technology
It doesnt freak me out but it makes learning stuff on my own feel pointless.
When I was a kid I once gushed, in a letter to Origin Software, about how much effort they must've put into Ultima 5. I mean, to have prepared, in advance, on the floppies, every single possible combination of tiles that could appear in a full screen! Wow!
... you'll get less freaked out as you learn more. And then, after a point, if you tried to explain it to someone else you'll get a sense again that it's indeed an amazing thing. But it's not beyond human comprehension. Specialists are just lazy.
Yes, very much so. It’s hard to say which kind of knowledge will be critical in the future and what will turn out to be a mirage.
The fact technology I don’t fully understand is so critical to my survival makes me a bit queasy.
This, though, it makes me want to give up and be content with what I know.
economics is much more vital to you and it's only just barely within human comprehension, and as a study it's dominated by bootlickers. If you pity states like Venezuela, the reality is that you're already living in Venezuela and the absurdly wealthy states that should pity you were never allowed to exist.
basic human biology is pretty important too, and even easy to understand, but you'll get your life destroyed for talking truthfully about it. Errors on this subject extend to madnesses that will directly affect you: doctors worse than they would've been; caretakers in your dotterage that despise you, and will just laugh while you choke on your own spittle and expire.
mere technology is nothing to feel queasy about.
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you mean fatalism
Just as no single man in the world knows how to or can make a pencil.
Team work makes the dream work :^)
Imagine how quickly things would turn to hell if whites somehow vanished.
B1 is a logical progression of several fields, so not mind blowing. Quantum mechanics is still hard for me to grasp though. Maybe it will make more sense when I have a quantum computer I can fuck with.
Give that lone neckbeard browsing Zig Forums the infinite resources and personnel of the united states military and I'm sure he'd come up with something interesting. Or at least a swanky logo.
those were not done by one person tho and could never be.
No, and stop using raped pics related OP. And your example is shit. B1 was crafted during one of the worst engineering slumps in the US and simply rode on the back of '60's superior engineering with a splash of black paint on it.
Cutting edge ML research is literally just ADD MORE LAYERS XDDDDD. Anyone can understand it.
Almost as though that was entirely OP's point, you mouth breathing tard.
Wrong.
Retard, its possible to have "infinite" layers, so why doesn't everyone do that? Its clear that you are an outsider and don't actually understand the research.
I'm pretty sure you could make a rudimentary pencil by mixing coal power with some clay, baking it into a long rod, and making a wooden handle of sorts for it
you can't write a program to build a B1B or a SR71, you need designers with a very, very good sense of aerodynamics and geometry. these were made with little use of old computers as powerful as your graphic calculator, and rulers.
mechanics, design, steel working isn't something a computer programmer can do. It requires a lot of other senses, and if you think you are the best with coding, and have gigaflops of compute powers in your pocket, this technology is not comparable to like, building something that exist, raping the sound barrier multiple times and so on.
So let me resume this: you have little technology everywhere, while the NASA sent men on the Moon in the 60s when the most advanced tech you had in everybody's home was a turntable and a TV set.
you don't need highly skilled software developers or computers to fly to the Moon, you need men.
Yeah and I'm pretty sure your a faggot who doesn't get that a pencil is made of paint, wood, glue, graphite, rubber, and tin.
And the graphite of which is a long studied composition as it has to be of the proper hardness otherwise it simply won't write or will crumble into dust.
Also can you:
And don't forget that you have to do all this on your own with no guidance or assistance of any kind from anyone.
I see your point, but I very much doubt early pencils were anywhere near that processed. I wish the nukes would fall already. It would probably be a lot of fun figuring out how to reinvent everything.
Early pencils were literally a stick of lead. Then they found graphite in England. It made a darker mark than lead which was nice, but it was also fragile. To combat this they wrapped it in string which you peeled away as you wrote. A while later the decided instead to stick the graphite rod in a piece of wood which was sturdier. You could definitely make a crude pencil no problem. The hardest part is the eraser which takes decently difficult chemistry, but it's not entirely necessary to the function of a pencil.
"I, Pencil" is not "wow humans can't do what the market can do" but "wow it sure does take a while to comprehend a supply chain that's been ruthlessly optimized for hundreds of years".
it has a programming lesson rather than an economic one.
The loss of knowledge is indeed a problem.
Quite some time ago, an old engineer told me that the knowledge on how to make good airplane aerodynamic is lost, and recently you could see how the F-35 flew (like a brick strapped with engines).
Now everything is dependent on some software that do (correct) calculations only within specific parameters, and people better hope that this won't fail, or that someone didn't make some minor change that will fuck this up and nobody would know until everything is really broken and don't know why or where the problem is.
That said, it's a good thing to keep older books, if the worst come up, there would still be a simpe way to find back this knowledge.
And if not, it'll be the hard way: back to the blackboard and writing equations to get those back, or fiddling with stuff.
I feel that there is a difference between understanding the concepts behind advanced tech and understanding how to build it. I understand how the B1 generates lift, and I understand how it defeats radar. However you could give me all the parts and materials and even with that understanding there's no way in hell I could put one together.
I have a few math books, and it really is true that many gems are lost, even in more elementary mathematics. Knowledge about curves, factoring, algorithms for roots etc. Today's mathematicians are taught the basics on nice convenient examples, but run to the computer for any problem. Using computers to handle massive equations is certainly not a bad thing in itself, we no longer need monks performing long multiplications, but it is sad that we lose so much.
Meant to say, a few old math books.
don't tell op about the tr-3b
It makes me wish to someday develop something as part of a team, I guess.
I don't think you specified that you had a certain type of pencil in mind.
It freaks me out too, but not because of what has been accomplished. As others have mentioned, great things are possible with teamwork. It freaks me out that there really are lots of other smart people around the world, and yet we're never really able to organize together for something meaningful. Instead, much of our efforts are spent participating in D&C schemes the media hypes up, and worrying about the diversity quotas on any projects we envision. Imagine what we could accomplish without the deadweight of 3rd world populations, identity politics and the poison culture of unbridled capitalism. Please come back Hitler
But they are the guys crawling around in small tunnels to dig out the minerals for our tech at a price we accept. Even kids are basically in slavery instead of school.
Well they should use adults instead of slaves, but there's nothing wrong with trading with them. We'll have robots to do the mining soon enough anyways, but in the mean time, these people are making the best out of their situation. Of course it's never really like that. The tinpot dictator usually want to wage a war, so he short-sightedly borrows money from the jew, in exchange for n years of mining rights. Incentivized by profit, the Jew pays the miners fractions of what they deserve and then price gorges his buyers. The smarter jews even form cabals to control to stockpile the supply of mined resources to price-fix for extra prophet, and protect themselves against a mega kike who'll screw his felllow tribesmen over at the drop of a hat.
*gouges.
*to control the flow, stockpiling the supply if necessary
*prophet -> profit
Fucking phone.
LOL
what should freak you out is when you try to reverse engineer a modern IC
also riding a plane or train should freak you out. but american propaganda "riding in an airplane is safer than driving, math n sheeeeit!" tells you otherwise
Transistors are literally alien technology. Plucked straight out of the crashed flying saucer in New Mexico and reversed engineered by the army to produce the ultimate proprietary enslavement system.
If you weren't so retarded, you'd know there is a bit of overlap with IC design and artificial intelligence. I bet you don't even understand a single routing algorithm.
Sounds like the start of a good science fiction multi volume set. What's the easiest way for us to finance you with $100m to make this?
Your donation would be appreciated, but we have to finish the TR-3B first, so the cash is going towards the zero point/xerium 525 initiative as a first priority.
The thing is, transistors were discovered before Roswell, so there is a plot hole.
I still can't figure out how ICs work together to make a computer do what it does. After we get past the transistor I'm fucking lost tech-wise. Just the act of being able to fit so many thousands of circuits onto that silicon wafer is fucking space wizardry.
Read this. Pretty good engineering book which will help you answer that question.
the reason why big projects are more impressive than what you can do is because of funding
funding = more people working on a project = more hours on it
you are only a single person who has 24 hours in a day
if you have funding to hire tons of engineers, that's way more time on the project
funding is used not just for employees to make new tech, but to buy existing tech, and you guessed it, that tech they buy and use is also made by big teams of people
I'm a developer and there's all sorts of shit I know I can make, because it's not super hard (full stack web shit mostly), but the issue is not having enough TIME
I have tons of app ideas and only a limited amount of time to make them, so not all of them are possible
project managers and three-letter execs (CEO, CTO, CSO etc) can get bigger tasks accomplished because they can tell lots of different people what to do, doing things that are simply not possible at an individual scale or even for a small group of people
a pseudointellectual spends time reinventing the wheel to prove that he can
a smart person doesn't bother because it's a waste of time
It's true. The military industrial complex (MIC) is probably 100-200 years ahead of what anons could accomplish. You do not control the MIC, but the Jews do. It's over. Even if we got our act together, put down our waifu pillows, stoped jacking to pony cartoons and really got into serious business, we still wouldn't be able to compete. Entire resource rich nations like Venezuela will be brought to heal by (((them))), what do you think you are going to do. It's over, they won. You're dead they just haven't told you yet. Join the system or not, you're not important enough to be saved. We lost.
You're a dedicated bot
I'm probably just a parody of that bot. Especially as I wrote heal instead of heel.
In all seriousness, we're pretty screwed once these systems no longer have to be manned by shabbos goy.
the tr-3b already exists, there are fleets of them. so does ZPE and electrogravitic warp drives. there is a secret space program and the solar system is already being colonized with a breakaway human civilization.
At least there won't be any more school shootings lmao.
This right here.
Don't forget about the economy of scale introduced by all those hours of work being bought at once. You can divide those hours of work intro discrete projects to work in parallel (Increasing raw time to market). You can break projects up into components that fall within a specific worker's expertise, thus allowing pipelining of similar work. This raises throughput. Combined, you get more work/hour toward a giant goal than a single person could ever hope to achieve, ignoring Pareto principle, gross mismanagement of resources, etc.
Yes but I don't have one, and need the funding to build one.
funding would be the easy part, it's building the tech in secrecy without getting zogged that's tricky.
1) Those aircraft are made by thousands of people over many years, sometimes decades. Why do you think they're so expensive ?.
2) building an aircraft like that isn't difficult, what is hard is making sure that it stays reliable and keep flying for decades.
You'll have to deal with metal fatigue, this is the most difficult part of an aircraft design, its basically 10% aerodynamic and 90% of dealing with shitty aluminum weaknesses.
Every time someone uses 'lmao' in context like this, they are actually angry at the other person. lmao.
I'm not fucking dixon Ticonderoga you god damn mongoloid. I just said how one man could possibly make a pencil. He doesn't have to fucking ship it to buyers you fucking retard. Try improving your reading comprehension skills and maybe stop sperging out online for no reason.
You can literally build one by hand
God I love stupid people.
Trips confirm.
As if anything of commercial value is dug out of the earth by third world urchins.
Nothing on that B1 was contributed by third worlder and everything by first world (AKA European) tech and civilization. The cultural gap between Europeans and the rest of the world was realy so gigantic for several hundred years and has closed in recent times only so far that the rest of the world has adapted superior European Civ, while contributing very little to it.
That is true, it was stolen from Germany after the war.