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Gaming and AI are in Mac's future, even with low memory capacities
danvm said:elijahg said:loopless said:It is NOT BS. Unified memory is a huge advantage.
I have a 16GB 14" M1 MacBook Pro, and a Dell 32GB Windows 11 Core I7 laptop. Both with SSD's. I use them for software development.
The Windows 11 machine is bumping up against its memory limits (at which point the performance tanks) earlier than I have problems with the MacBook when doing a similar set of tasks. For example, using QT Creator and Visual Code, then building large code bases and with lots of other apps open at the same time.And lets not talk about the various "blue screens" that still seem to plague Windows.
I looked at upgrading the Dell's memory but it has CAMM memory that costs $1000 to upgrade - so don't be complaining about Apples prices! -
Gaming and AI are in Mac's future, even with low memory capacities
CheeseFreeze said:Of course we all know this is BS. The real reason is that Tim Cook wants us to climb the spec ladder. A memory upgrade is probably a better choice versus upgrading cores or even moving from a Pro to Max. -
Gaming and AI are in Mac's future, even with low memory capacities
byronl said:We've been hearing this for like 10 years lmao. I'll believe it when I see it. -
Apple has new App Store rules, business terms, and sideloading conditions for EU developer...
I said years ago this would happen if Apple continued as they were, and many of the less… pragmatic here laughed at that said nope never. Well here we are. Apple forced other’s hand. Will be interesting to see how it turns out for users, and if the supposed invasion of malware will happen as those with a rather less balanced view predicted. I doubt it somehow.I do think there will be less use of things like Apple Pay though, forcing card users to use the NFC features in the provider’s app. And that will be crappy, no doubt. -
Apple to sell Apple Watch with blood oxygen detection removed to bypass ITC import ban
tht said:MplsP said:Wait…doesn’t this just disprove Apple’s argument that they’ll suffer irreparable harm?tht said:And so it goes.Gurman is rumor-mongoring that Apple is working changing how the measurement works to clear the patents in question.My pet theory is they will only use 1 LED emitter and overdrive it to provide enough light. This would require getting a new calibration data set, so it takes time.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026269217305232
Towards a novel single-LED pulse oximeter based on a multispectral sensor for IoT applications
"we propose a novel approach combining a single led and a Buried Quad Junction photodetector, i.e. a multispectral sensor. With this fundamental modification of the pulse oximetry principle, we reduce the modifying effects introduced by the aforementioned sources of inaccuracy by using a single led. Results from in vivo measurements, show that the three tests of the proposed system's precision falls within the commercial tolerance of 4% SpO2%."
I'm just some Apple fan doing a search and this paper from 2018 was the first hit. I assume the experts in this field already knew this going back 10 years before this paper was published and perhaps waiting on someone to do the work (or they did the work and was unpublished); and if they knew, that meant someone was already thinking about it 20 years before that, if not 40.
There is a difference with current times in that you don't need precise theory or high S/N, you just need a lot of data. Feed the data in an ML model, find the driving parameters, then you have a trained model that does 95% of the job.
Using ML models might be the only way to get blood glucose measurements through spectroscopy. Just waiting to see what they come up with.