Way back when ('80s i think) the Japanese Government (MITI) decided that the Prologue language (Proudly Recursive - great for the Tower of Hanoi problem) was to be the basis for the artificial intelligence revolution that they wanted to lead.
Don't remember? The problem with planning for the future is it keeps changing.
Not to be contrary - and I'm certainly a big supporter of Open Source - but this is what works:
Two cheap boxes, one running the server and the other SQL server, will outperform a single box by a wide margin. SQL Server's a pig and doesn't share well with the other children. Use back to back NICs to the connect the SQL box so there's no network overhead...
Check the check boxes when you compile your.Net components. Threading models matter. And a stateless contiuously instantiated module is the only scalable solution. Check the stats on construct/destruct overhead.
Use an n-tier architecture. Not just for the obvious reasons but because you can build faster data access including invisible data caching (as the app grows) and avoid the problems that are driving you down to only 20 or so tps.
Buy more memory - Doh!
Feynman invented Flexagons...
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that were a form of folded triangles on which one could perform flexing operations he found non-trivial to think about. When he was at MIT, I think...before we were born.
Martin Gardner of SciAm made them into a fad...
the PS3 cpu is a collaboration between Sony and IBM that uses the huge (100 million +) demand of the PS3 to subsidize the low cost design and production (spread over all those game consoles) of an extrordinary CPU that we wouldn't otherwise gt our hands on (like Deep Blue's cpu(s), IBM's $million$ chess demo). IBM intends (and announced when the CPU contract was let) to use this CPU as the foundation of powerful workstations and servers that WILL RUN LINUX.
Slashdotters should note that this is a clever strategy to use game consoles to break the Wintel oligarchy and give us a CPU that will blow away anything on Intel's current roadmap. I can't wait...
One word:
Virtual
The pre-existing pigeon holes of the user's mind must be re-used (as championed by Trout and Reis in the seminal marketing tome "Positioning") so that the interface agrees with their pre-existing models of reality. Touch screens do this admirably. They're so obvious users and designers overlook the fact that they're rich with deep UI content: Even secondary effects of good virtaul models/UI's make sense. For example: Pressing harder means "more!"
If it's so obvious you overlook it then it's probably something users will adopt without even noticing there's an interface.
Radio = Nuclear bombs = Short time window
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One of the major factors relating the Drake equation to SETi is this:
How long does a complex lifeform survive from the time they gain radio technology until they destroy themselves with nuclear bombs or biowarfare technolies?
Since the life of a star is long (billions of years) this short technology time window (in our case less than a hundred years potentially) may (if you're a pessimist about our collective survival instinct) make SETI a long shot. They were out there - but they took themselves off the air...
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Way back when ('80s i think) the Japanese Government (MITI) decided that the Prologue language (Proudly Recursive - great for the Tower of Hanoi problem) was to be the basis for the artificial intelligence revolution that they wanted to lead. Don't remember? The problem with planning for the future is it keeps changing.
Two cheap boxes, one running the server and the other SQL server, will outperform a single box by a wide margin. SQL Server's a pig and doesn't share well with the other children. Use back to back NICs to the connect the SQL box so there's no network overhead...
Check the check boxes when you compile your .Net components. Threading models matter. And a stateless contiuously instantiated module is the only scalable solution. Check the stats on construct/destruct overhead.
Use an n-tier architecture. Not just for the obvious reasons but because you can build faster data access including invisible data caching (as the app grows) and avoid the problems that are driving you down to only 20 or so tps.
Buy more memory - Doh!
that were a form of folded triangles on which one could perform flexing operations he found non-trivial to think about. When he was at MIT, I think...before we were born. Martin Gardner of SciAm made them into a fad...
the PS3 cpu is a collaboration between Sony and IBM that uses the huge (100 million +) demand of the PS3 to subsidize the low cost design and production (spread over all those game consoles) of an extrordinary CPU that we wouldn't otherwise gt our hands on (like Deep Blue's cpu(s), IBM's $million$ chess demo). IBM intends (and announced when the CPU contract was let) to use this CPU as the foundation of powerful workstations and servers that WILL RUN LINUX.
Slashdotters should note that this is a clever strategy to use game consoles to break the Wintel oligarchy and give us a CPU that will blow away anything on Intel's current roadmap. I can't wait...
One word: Virtual The pre-existing pigeon holes of the user's mind must be re-used (as championed by Trout and Reis in the seminal marketing tome "Positioning") so that the interface agrees with their pre-existing models of reality. Touch screens do this admirably. They're so obvious users and designers overlook the fact that they're rich with deep UI content: Even secondary effects of good virtaul models/UI's make sense. For example: Pressing harder means "more!" If it's so obvious you overlook it then it's probably something users will adopt without even noticing there's an interface.
One of the major factors relating the Drake equation to SETi is this:
How long does a complex lifeform survive from the time they gain radio technology until they destroy themselves with nuclear bombs or biowarfare technolies?
Since the life of a star is long (billions of years) this short technology time window (in our case less than a hundred years potentially) may (if you're a pessimist about our collective survival instinct) make SETI a long shot. They were out there - but they took themselves off the air...