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Samsung S10 Annoyances

Posted: 12/25/2019 Updated: 12/26/2019

In late July of 2019, I bought the Samsung S10. Before that, I have used a Samsung S7 for about three years.

List of annoyances:

1. The transfer of apps, configurations etc. from my S7 to S10 was not smooth nor complete. E.g. my hotspot setting was very restrictive (only allowed devices can use it). However, on my S10 anybody could latch on to my hotspot despite transfer without any notice. It took a while before I discovered this omission.
2. The shutter of the camera is very slow. Compared with my S7, I have never had so many blurred pictures. How many seconds or fractions thereof you have to wait before you can shoot the next picture? A friend of mine confirmed this annoyance as well. Recently, I was helping a family to have a picture taken in front of a Christmas tree. This family also confirmed that the shutter was too slow.
3. The slider on the right hand side of the display is very hard to read. So when I am reading a long email or webpage it is not easy to figure out where in the email or webpage you are or how much longer it is
4. Bixby is much too intrusive and the button on the left hand side below the two volume buttons is a serious design flaw. I use Google and I don’t need Bixby!
5. The speaker phone functionality is inconsistent. It constantly switches between two different sounding modes depending on how you hold the phone.

Samsung And Delilah

Today, I woke up to the surprising news that Samsung entered the dating market with a dating app. What a clever marketing move for an electronics company. You wish Siemens or GE would come up with something like it.

Not only that, Samsung created a website called https://www.refrigerdating.com/. Sounds a bit chilly or? In the German language there is a well known adage “Liebe geht durch den Magen” (Love comes from your stomach). I would almost bet that e.g. Italians or French have similar sayings. Wonder, what expressions the Koreans might have? Or is it just a variation of you are what you eat.

 

Sources:

1. NEUE DATING-APP : Liebe geht durch den Kühlschrank

The Artificial Brain Vs. Human Brain

Posted: 8/9/2014

Trigger

Just read “IBM Unveils Chip Simulating Brain Functions/Tech Giant Claims Microchip Is a Sharp Break From Traditional Chip Design”. And here is another article. This chip was actually built in collaboration with Samsung Electronics.

The Chip

1. “IBM says the chip, a sharp break from the fundamental design used in most computers, excels at chores like recognizing patterns and classifying objects while using much less electrical power than conventional hardware.”
2. “But its latest offering, described in a paper in the journal Science, has novel features that include its large size and the use of standard digital technology rather than esoteric materials or production processes.”
3. “The chip, dubbed TrueNorth, was built for IBM by Samsung Electronics Co. … using the same manufacturing technology the South Korean company uses to make microprocessors for smartphones and other mobile devices. ”
4. “IBM collaborated on the underlying design with researchers at the New York City campus of Cornell University in a project that has received $53 million in funding since 2008 from the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
5. “TrueNorth ... uses 5.4 billion transistors—four times more than a typical PC processor—to yield the equivalent of one million neurons and 256 million synapses. They are organized into 4,096 structures called "neurosynaptic cores," each able to store, process and transmit data to any other using a communications scheme called a crossbar.
6. “The new chip dubbed "TrueNorth" works to mimic the "right brain" functions of sensory processing — responding to sights, smells and information from the environment to "learn" to respond in different situations …”
7. The design is "event-driven," …. means that individual cores fire up only when they are needed, rather than running all the time.
8. This scheme makes the chips more power efficient. Where a comparable standard microprocessor draws 50 to 100 watts per square centimeter, TrueNorth draws just 20 milliwatts ...”

In The Not So Distant Future

There is little doubt in my mind that artificial brains will exceed human brains in almost any conceivable way except for perhaps creativity and happenstance discoveries.

There is also little doubt in my mind that one day (perhaps in the next 25-50 years) the human brain will be completely replaced by an artificial brain.