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The Great Reversal: From Numbers to Words For the past two centuries, we’ve lived in the age of the numeric. The hard sciences—physics, engineering, computer science—have dominated our understanding…
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Futuristic Sci-Fi
I saw this for the first time 15 years or so ago, but the sheer shock -- of trying to reconcile what I was watching with the current time and when it was made, and everything happening at that time, a…
Anticipating the end of surveillance…
From this brilliant book: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697 (Side note: taking a screenshot and applying "highlighting" markup is surprisingly…
Well, this is cheerful
Continuing an MIT study from 1971 Subscribed to r/solarpunk just to have a counter-weight of optimism.…
A giant CS/Lisp rant
Read the whole piece here, here’s a flavor: Why are we not out there to offer a real database system with Common Lisp datatypes instead of the tragic mess that SQL imposes on us in the C-based APIs o…
Memristance is futile. Not.
I came across this wired article recently, and what I read sounded too science-fiction-y to be true, so then I decided to go to the source, and found this video (see below) by a researcher at HP, and…
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Comments are explanations to the future maintainers of the code. Even if you’re the only person who will ever see and touch the code, even if you’re either immortal and never going to quit, or unconce…
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Only in the mid-nineties when the number of transistors on a single chip ceased to be the true bottleneck, the “von Neumann bottleneck” may have ceased to be the optimal solution. For the first time a…