The quest-a thirst unquenchable..

Quest - a thrust unquestionable..

“You have given me deeper thirsting after life. Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain. And in this lies my honour and my reward, – That whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty; it drinks me while I drink it.” – Khalil Gibran

Daily Archive: April 7, 2017

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The Origins of Intel’s New Transistor, and Its Future-A Q&A with Chenming Hu, coinventor of finFET

9 May 2011—Intel announced a big change to the electronic switches at the heart of its CPUs. Going forward, the firm will be using three-dimensional transistors to take the place of long-used planar devices. The new transistors—dubbed “tri-gates”—are a variation on the FinFET, a transistor design that substitutes...

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The Ant Internet

Had this ant research been performed in the early 1970s, when researchers were working on communications algorithms, it might have saved them a little time. Not that the researchers would have necessarily given the ants the credit. After all, quips  “the ants didn’t publish.” Before researchers developed the...