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February 22, 2021

 

After noon but before one o'clock. You had a bath and are refreshed, so to speak. Today, let's complete the reedited Diplomat's Pouch without the 'spirits'. – Ms. Havisham

 

1722. I am feeling an emotional and passion-oriented settling in terms of writing "without the spirits". I no longer need them. I understand what I understand without faith. How can I convey this in this modified story? 

 

This is your question, Mr. Orndorff. "How can you convey having an understanding of G-D without the utilizing the hope provided by religious faith and without discounting such faith for those who need it to support their individual religious nature?" – Ms. Havisham

 

1754. I need to put this question in the form of the thesis statement.

 

This novel shows a marsupial humanoid's robotic machine's developing a personal relationship with G-D without the need of faith. – Ms. Havisham

 

 

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First Thesis Statement for Computer Novel

 

This speculative fiction shows an alien built human-like computer developing a personal relationship with G-D within the sense of reason rather than faith. 

 

Unique words – 90%; Rare words – 14%; Word length – 5,4 words/sentence; Sentence Length – 15.5 words/sentence. 

 

Reading written for some college background says Grammarly.

 

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Nearly bedtime. You are meeting Kim for breakfast at Scrambler's at 0855. Carol has a hair appointment at Kenneth's at 1015. You have a haircut at 1330, and you have supper with Cathy and Tod at 1600. Carol has her second Covid-19 vaccination at 10 o'clock on Wednesday. – Ms. H.

 

2259. Some early changes will occur; one will probably be no aliens. This takes place on Earth, secretly, and in present day.

 

Good choice. Post. – Ms. H. 

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February 23, 2021

 

This morning you left for breakfast with Kim not realizing you left your year and a half year old Mac Air on the car. Later, you found the computer along Africa Road with a very large tire track running over it. The computer is broken. Tomorrow, you hope to buy a new one from Best Buy, a new Mac Air with an M1 Apple chip. Here are the details. - Ms. Havisham

 

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APPLE M1 CHIP

SMALL CHIP. GIANT LEAP.

M1 is here. Our first chip designed specifically for Mac, it delivers incredible performance, custom technologies, and revolutionary power efficiency. And it was designed from the very start to work with the most advanced desktop operating system in the world, macOS Big Sur. With a giant leap in performance per watt, every Mac with M1 is transformed into a completely different class of product. This isn’t an upgrade. It’s a breakthrough.

 

An entire system. On a single chip.

Until now, a Mac needed multiple chips to deliver all of its features — including the processor, I/O, security, and memory. With M1, these technologies are combined into a single system on a chip (SoC), delivering a new level of integration for more simplicity, more efficiency, and amazing performance. And with incredibly small transistors measured at an atomic scale, M1 is remarkably complex — packing the largest number of transistors we’ve ever put into a single chip. It’s also the first personal computer chip built using industry‑leading 5‑nanometer process technology.

 

5‑nanometer
process 

 

The first personal computer chip built with this cutting‑edge technology.

16 billion transistors The most we’ve ever put into a single chip.

 

Unified memory.
Shared across the entire system.

M1 also features our unified memory architecture, or UMA. M1 unifies its high‑bandwidth, low‑latency memory into a single pool within a custom package. As a result, all of the technologies in the SoC can access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory. This dramatically improves performance and power efficiency. Video apps are snappier. Games are richer and more detailed. Image processing is lightning fast. And your entire system is more responsive.

 

Up to 3.9X faster video processing¹

Up to 7.1X faster image processing²

 

Massive CPU performance.
Using a fraction of the power.

The 8‑core CPU in M1 is by far the highest‑performance CPU we’ve ever built. Designed to crush tasks using the least amount of power, M1 features two types of cores: high performance and high efficiency. So, from editing family photos to exporting iMovie videos for the web to managing huge RAW libraries in Lightroom to checking your email, M1 blazes right through it all — without blazing through battery life.

 

8-core CPU

The highest‑performance CPU we’ve ever built.

Up to 3.5X faster CPU performance¹

 

Four high‑performance cores

M1 features four performance cores, each designed to run a single task as efficiently as possible while maximizing performance. Our high‑performance core is the world’s fastest CPU core when it comes to low‑power silicon.³And because M1 has four of them, multithreaded workloads take a huge leap in performance as well.

 

Four high‑efficiency cores

M1 has four efficiency cores to handle lighter workloads. They use a tenth of the power while still delivering outstanding performance. These e‑cores are the most efficient place to run lightweight tasks, allowing the performance cores to be used for your most demanding workflows.

 

CPU performance vs. power

 

Up to 2X faster CPU performance⁴

Matches peak PC performance using 25% of the power⁴

 

2x faster CPU performance

M1 delivers significantly higher performance at every power level when compared with the very latest PC laptop chip. At just 10 watts (the thermal envelope of a MacBook Air), M1 delivers up to 2x the CPU performance of the PC chip. And M1 can match the peak performance of the PC chip while using just a quarter of the power.

 

CPU performance per watt

 

3X CPU performance per watt⁵

 

3x higher performance per watt

When we look back at the single‑threaded performance of low‑power silicon in the Mac, gains in performance per watt have been very small from one chip to the next. But when we look at M1, we see a massive 3x improvement in performance per watt.

 

The world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer.

Typically, PCs have to use a discrete chip to get great graphics performance — which consumes a lot of power. But M1 is different. Its integrated graphics bring the best of both worlds — a huge increase in graphics performance together with low power consumption. The result of years of thorough analysis of Mac applications, the GPU in M1 is the most advanced graphics processor we’ve ever built. With up to eight GPU cores, M1 is capable of executing nearly 25,000 threads at a time. From teraflops to texture bandwidth to fill rate to power efficiency, this GPU is in a class of its own — and brings the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer.⁶

 

Up to 8-core 

GPU The most advanced graphics processor we’ve ever built.

Up to 25K concurrent threads

 

GPU performance vs. power

 

Up to 2X faster GPU performance⁷

Matches peak PC performance using 33% of the power⁷

 

2x faster graphics performance

At every power level, M1 delivers significantly higher graphics performance than the very latest PC laptop chip — for up to 2x the graphics speed. And M1 can match the peak performance of the PC chip while using just a third of the power.

 

The next generation of machine learning.

M1 features our latest Neural Engine. Its 16‑core design is capable of executing a massive 11 trillion operations per second. In fact, with a powerful 8‑core GPU, machine learning accelerators, and the Neural Engine, the entire M1 chip is designed to excel at machine learning. Final Cut Pro can intelligently frame a clip in a fraction of the time. Pixelmator Pro can magically increase sharpness and detail at incredible speeds. And every app with ML‑powered features benefits from performance never before seen on Mac.

 

Up to 15X faster machine learning performance⁸

Up to 11 trillion operations per second 

 

Serious performance.
Ridiculous battery life.

M1 extends battery life even while bringing a massive increase in performance. But the chip itself is only part of this incredible power efficiency story. macOS Big Sur features advanced power management that intelligently allocates tasks between the M1 performance and efficiency cores — automatically optimizing for lightweight tasks like reading a note or performance‑intensive tasks like playing the latest game. The result is the best battery life ever on a Mac.

 

Copied from new Apple advertising.

 

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2223. I am using my old 12" screen Mac presently. I am upset losing the Mac Air to carelessness on my part, but I have saved enough allowance money (one hundred dollars a month for toys or carelessness) over the past year to buy a new one without affecting our household budget. I have had this allowance for the last forty-one years. Sometimes the money goes for vacations or needed new necessary appliances or a new chair or electronic toys such as televisions, radios, game machines or computers. I even spent some two thousand dollars fixing up our old 2005 Honda Accord. It is an allowance that works for me personally and us personally when need be. I call it “not guilt money” to spend mostly for entertainment or toys (not necessities). 

 

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February 27, 2021

 

Evening. You are both mostly packed and leaving for Linda and Bill’s in Tampa for a couple of weeks. Kim and Paul finally succeeded in putting a copy of their Microsoft Word on your new computer this morning. Owen and Brennan came over with Kim to pick up Jadah and Spooky for safekeeping at their house. You both gave Brennan his birthday card and money for yesterday, the 26^th. Trust we have a good trip south tomorrow and Monday. Post, for the first time in several days. – Ms. Havisham

 

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February 21, 2021

 

0951. Sunday morning. I no longer feel that I have anything else to say, i.e., I feel my written feelings/opinions/stories are no longer necessary to share, and I wonder why I ever thought it was necessary to share? 0958.

 

Late morning. Carol is sitting up on the bed reading a Lee Child novel, you are sitting to the 'old' now broken black chair, and the cats are asleep elsewhere. For whatever reasons you are no longer a 'writer'. You are no longer an interested audience for your fingers on the keyboard. – Ms. Havisham

 

1120. I am indifferently detached from whom I was. 

 

We can use this for sanding and smoothing Diplomat's Pouch as they no longer appear to be your words. – Ms. H.

 

1124. It is certainly not a necessity. 

 

No, but we can make it as a monument to what you were, a gravestone. – Ms. H.

 

1128. I have no need for a monument, and I already have a gravestone. 

 

So much the better. It becomes a tribute to who you were, to whom you wished to be remembered as. – Ms. H. 

 

1132. I don't feel I ever wished to be remembered. I don't care whether I am remembered or not. Our generation will soon be gone. We will be remembered by our children's generation and their children, that will basically be the end of our personal selves. We will all be names on gravestones or ashes mixed with other elements of the planet. Silent remanences of whom we were, living individual consciousness. No further memories wished or needed any longer -– heartsansoulsanminds returned to G-D for protracted comfort. 1241.

 

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February 22, 2021

 

Afternoon but before one o'clock. You had a bath and are refreshed, so to speak. Today, let's complete the re-edited Diplomat's Pouch without the 'spirits'. – Ms. Havisham

 

1722. I am feeling an emotional and passion-oriented settling in terms of writing "without the spirits". I no longer need them. I understand what I understand without faith. How can I convey this in this modified story? 

 

This is your question, Mr. Orndorff. "How can you convey having an understanding of G-D without utilizing the hope provided by religious faith and without discounting such faith for those who need it to support their individual religious nature?" – Ms. Havisham

 

1754. I need to put this question in the form of the thesis statement.

 

This novel shows a marsupial humanoid's robotic machine's developing a personal relationship with G-D without the need for faith. – Ms. Havisham

 

 

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First Thesis Statement for new Computer-oriented Novel

 

This speculative fiction shows an alien-built human-like computer developing a personal relationship with G-D within the sense of reason rather than faith. 

 

Unique words – 90%; Rare words – 14%; Word length – 5,4 words/sentence; Sentence Length – 15.5 words/sentence. 

 

Reading written for some college background says Grammarly.

 

**

 

Nearly bedtime. You are meeting Kim for breakfast at Scramblers at 0855. Carol has a hair appointment at Kenneth's at 1015. You have a haircut at 1330, and you have supper with Cathy and Tod at 1600. Carol has her second Covid-19 vaccination at 10 o'clock on Wednesday. – Ms. H.

 

2259. Some early changes will occur; one will probably be no aliens. This takes place on Earth, secretly, and in the present.

 

Good choice. Post. – Ms. H.