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The ‘Climate Overshoot’ website
Earlier this evening, as I was working on my laptop, I noticed that it was rapidly heating up, to the extent that it was burning my skin through two layers of cloth. This is a device that routinely runs a … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Overshoot Commission, computing power, Mozilla Firefox, solar geoengineering
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The way we talk about computing power
Whenever I hear someone rhapsodize about how much more computer power we have now compared with what was available in the 1960s during the Apollo era, I cringe. Those comparisons usually grossly underestimate the difference. A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo era, computing power, IBM 7090, information age, information economy, magnetic tape, mainframe
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An Indian supercomputer by 2017. Umm…
This is a tricky question. And for background, here’s the tweet from IBN Live that caught my eye. RT @ibnliveTech: India plans fastest supercomputer by 2017 http://t.co/rRtjl4Gd — News18 (@CNNnews18) September 16, 2012 (If you didn’t read the IBN piece, … Continue reading
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Tagged computing power, India, Kapil Sibal, PARAM, public investment, Sequoia, supercomputers
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Eigenstates of the human mind
Would a mind’s computing strength be determined by its ability to make sense of counter-intuitive principles (Type I) or by its ability to solve an increasing number of simple problems in a second (Type II)? Would Type I and Type … Continue reading
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Tagged computing power, eigenstate, probability, state-function
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