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The Reality Behind Moore's Law and Its Abstraction by Ray Kurzweil
12:25 - 17:56 (05:30)
The progress of computational power has followed a smooth exponential curve for over 120 years, however this growth isn't guaranteed to continue forever since only recently Gordon Moore's prediction of computer advancements being constant unit cost was proved false by elongated S-curve progress of technology.
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The podcast discusses the popular perception and abstraction of Moore's Law made by Ray Kurzweil, showing the smooth exponential curve followed by computational power in the past 120 years, including a graph that is considered the most important part of the book.
12:25 - 15:07 (02:41)
Summary
The podcast discusses the popular perception and abstraction of Moore's Law made by Ray Kurzweil, showing the smooth exponential curve followed by computational power in the past 120 years, including a graph that is considered the most important part of the book.
ChapterThe Reality Behind Moore's Law and Its Abstraction by Ray Kurzweil
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This podcast discusses how the latest CPUs and Nvidia GPUs follow the same progression curve as the CMOS transistor, following an elongated S-curve of slow progress during initial development, upper progress during a rapid adoption phase, and then slower growth from market saturation over time.
15:06 - 17:56 (02:49)
Summary
This podcast discusses how the latest CPUs and Nvidia GPUs follow the same progression curve as the CMOS transistor, following an elongated S-curve of slow progress during initial development, upper progress during a rapid adoption phase, and then slower growth from market saturation over time. This law has been observed over five paradigm shifts and claims that computational power purchases of a dollar have doubled every 18 months for 120 years.