"While truly Turing-complete machines are very likely physically impossible, as they require unlimited storage, Turing completeness is often loosely attributed to physical machines or programming languages that would be universal if they had unlimited storage. All modern computers are Turing-complete in this loose sense, or more precisely linear bounded automaton-complete."
Please point me to a problem unsolvable by a Turing-complete machine (you can choose the definition you prefer) that could be solved by the addition of memristors. Failing that, I would still be interested in a way to make NP problems solvable in polynomial time (the promise of quantum computing). Until then, I will just dismiss it as an over-hyper electronic component with only small niche application and a need for new investors.
Please explain to me how this component extends the range of process we can simulate/predict. I fail to see the link with the Turing's publication you mention that proposes concepts that are completely implementable with a current CPU.
This is only a component with a new electrical behavior, for heaven's sake ! Completely simulatable, its behavior is linear, I fail to see how it could have profound implications. It will maybe simplify some electric circuits that needed 3 capacitors and a coil, but it won't change a single thing in the way we program computers.
AI needs new algorithms to progress. Electronics will not change the way we program computers. They are already Turing complete, a new component adds nothing to the realm of what a device can compute. Expect a revolution in electronics, but IT people will not see a single difference (except maybe a slight performance improvement)
No. This is a lot of gross overexageration.
Our computers are Turing-complete. Point me to something that is missing in this before I get excited. This new component may have great applications, but it will "only" replace some existing components and functions. It is great to have it but it is nothing essentially missing.
I agree that the size and scale they are attacking is faraminous, but I also wanted to point out two things:
- The process patented would not need energy. In fact it uses the temperature difference between surface and deeper water to extract energy and mix the temperature, presumably while using the energy to move the boat it is attached to.
- Humans have already manage to cause large-enough changes to their ecosystem to create (unintentionally) big-scale events. Alternatively, they have already made engineering efforts of a quite larger scale than a storm.
Well I must say that I was waiting for such a virus. I the last years, virus are considered like an invisible nuisance that doesn't eat more than a few CPU cycles and some bandwidth. People forgot about the first virus that routinely erased data. Maybe if this kind of virus make a comeback, we will see more people seriously concerned about IT security.
I thought that Google had some sort of... I don't know... pride, or moral reservation at using anything else than javascript and HTML for its dynamic content. Flash would seem like a backward step to me.
I'll consider through the eye of a SF reader : before the 80s computers worked. "Every computer glitch as a human origin" HAL taught us. (spoiler) it took a politician to make its perfect logic go amok. To say it in a nutshell, computers were deterministic.
Now fast-forward a few years. Cyberpunk. Computers fail, a skillful hacker can enter any system. Bugs cause catastrophes, virus take epic proportions.
Microsoft changed the IT landscape and I think it made it lose at least 10 years (I would say 20). Now IT specialists waste their times reinventing the wheel for every version of Windows, correct the same problems over and over, put hacked patches on security holes that should not exist. Microsoft did not bring the desktop into the home. Apple did. Internet blossomed despite Microsoft attempts at controlling it (The first plans for MSN, "Microsoft Network" was to concurrence Internet itself, to be a separate network). Plug and play's most common nickname was "plug and pray" because when it didn't work (50% of the time) you had no way to make it work, even if you were an IT engineer. The long sessions of kernel hacking that were necessary a few years ago (try Ubuntu if you think this is still the case) to make a webcam work was mostly due to the culture of proprietary drivers that Microsoft helped foster. Linux drivers were written from reverse-engineered information. The fact that it could work was by itself a miracle that happened despite Microsoft efforts.
Honestly, we don't call Microsoft evil out of spite for its wealth, we have technical reasons for this. And Google did not choose "Don't be evil" as a motto without thinking of a certain Redmond company and the damages they did to the IT world.
17", 1440x900. Bear in mind that a desktop is screen is usually used at a further distance than a laptop screen. It makes sense to have less pixels per centimeters for them.
Actually, it is easier for a manager to create a business plan for "the best graphical engine out there" than for "the best gameplay out there". The first one is a technical problem of solving a complex engineering task, the second one requires creativity, this pesky thing so hard to quantify.
Could it be the comeback of the framebuffer mode ?
They don't really want a windowing system, methinks. All they need is to open Chrome in fullscreen...
I think you're being overly optimistic. We don't protect stagnation we protect and encourage failure. The US government tinkers in the economy more than most other free nations do, and it's almost always in the form of bailouts, protecting failing enterprises, insuring markets without demanding regulator authority. It's been going on for several decades and it's led us from one bubble to the next, and it won't stop for at least one more boom bust cycle.
Heh, socialism is better done by liberals, conservatives suck at it. If you want good government tinkering instead of thinly veiled money diversion, elect a true socialist liberal;-)
Don't complain about taxes... 5.5% here in France is what we pay when buying necessity things like food. 19.6% is the norm for most things like a car... Cough your $400,000 please...
Children sometimes do that : in order to mimick adults, they "write" lines and pretend it means something. "What's that dear ? A dotted line ?" "That means 'I love you !' "
Do you have a source about word groupings ? The wikipedia is weak on this one and seems to suggest that only characters frequency (and groups of two or three characters) have interesting characteristics...
"A lot" ? All the references I could see were about letters frequency and some words that are repeated sequentially two or three times. If you have any source I would be happy to look into them, but I wonder if the "pattern" is anything more elaborated than a Markov chain on the letters, which the human brain is fairly good at emulating.
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From Turing completeness :
"While truly Turing-complete machines are very likely physically impossible, as they require unlimited storage, Turing completeness is often loosely attributed to physical machines or programming languages that would be universal if they had unlimited storage. All modern computers are Turing-complete in this loose sense, or more precisely linear bounded automaton-complete."
Please point me to a problem unsolvable by a Turing-complete machine (you can choose the definition you prefer) that could be solved by the addition of memristors. Failing that, I would still be interested in a way to make NP problems solvable in polynomial time (the promise of quantum computing). Until then, I will just dismiss it as an over-hyper electronic component with only small niche application and a need for new investors.
Please explain to me how this component extends the range of process we can simulate/predict. I fail to see the link with the Turing's publication you mention that proposes concepts that are completely implementable with a current CPU.
This is only a component with a new electrical behavior, for heaven's sake ! Completely simulatable, its behavior is linear, I fail to see how it could have profound implications. It will maybe simplify some electric circuits that needed 3 capacitors and a coil, but it won't change a single thing in the way we program computers.
You also described quite precisely what is happening here in France as well.
AI needs new algorithms to progress. Electronics will not change the way we program computers. They are already Turing complete, a new component adds nothing to the realm of what a device can compute. Expect a revolution in electronics, but IT people will not see a single difference (except maybe a slight performance improvement)
No. This is a lot of gross overexageration.
Our computers are Turing-complete. Point me to something that is missing in this before I get excited. This new component may have great applications, but it will "only" replace some existing components and functions. It is great to have it but it is nothing essentially missing.
I wholeheartedly agree. On the condition that the loop includes a trip above the Mayor's house and that all video feeds are released to the public.
I agree that the size and scale they are attacking is faraminous, but I also wanted to point out two things :
- The process patented would not need energy. In fact it uses the temperature difference between surface and deeper water to extract energy and mix the temperature, presumably while using the energy to move the boat it is attached to.
- Humans have already manage to cause large-enough changes to their ecosystem to create (unintentionally) big-scale events. Alternatively, they have already made engineering efforts of a quite larger scale than a storm.
Well I must say that I was waiting for such a virus. I the last years, virus are considered like an invisible nuisance that doesn't eat more than a few CPU cycles and some bandwidth. People forgot about the first virus that routinely erased data. Maybe if this kind of virus make a comeback, we will see more people seriously concerned about IT security.
I thought that Google had some sort of... I don't know... pride, or moral reservation at using anything else than javascript and HTML for its dynamic content. Flash would seem like a backward step to me.
I'll consider through the eye of a SF reader : before the 80s computers worked. "Every computer glitch as a human origin" HAL taught us. (spoiler) it took a politician to make its perfect logic go amok. To say it in a nutshell, computers were deterministic.
Now fast-forward a few years. Cyberpunk. Computers fail, a skillful hacker can enter any system. Bugs cause catastrophes, virus take epic proportions. Microsoft changed the IT landscape and I think it made it lose at least 10 years (I would say 20). Now IT specialists waste their times reinventing the wheel for every version of Windows, correct the same problems over and over, put hacked patches on security holes that should not exist. Microsoft did not bring the desktop into the home. Apple did. Internet blossomed despite Microsoft attempts at controlling it (The first plans for MSN, "Microsoft Network" was to concurrence Internet itself, to be a separate network). Plug and play's most common nickname was "plug and pray" because when it didn't work (50% of the time) you had no way to make it work, even if you were an IT engineer. The long sessions of kernel hacking that were necessary a few years ago (try Ubuntu if you think this is still the case) to make a webcam work was mostly due to the culture of proprietary drivers that Microsoft helped foster. Linux drivers were written from reverse-engineered information. The fact that it could work was by itself a miracle that happened despite Microsoft efforts.
Honestly, we don't call Microsoft evil out of spite for its wealth, we have technical reasons for this. And Google did not choose "Don't be evil" as a motto without thinking of a certain Redmond company and the damages they did to the IT world.
That's because you will need to change from the 4:3 ratio you are used to, but I can find things like that :
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktop-monitors/lcd/value-series/va1716w.htm
17", 1440x900. Bear in mind that a desktop is screen is usually used at a further distance than a laptop screen. It makes sense to have less pixels per centimeters for them.
Actually, it is easier for a manager to create a business plan for "the best graphical engine out there" than for "the best gameplay out there". The first one is a technical problem of solving a complex engineering task, the second one requires creativity, this pesky thing so hard to quantify.
You can even program A.L.I.C.E to do that...
Could it be the comeback of the framebuffer mode ?
They don't really want a windowing system, methinks. All they need is to open Chrome in fullscreen...
Which is good as well. The Pirate Party needs to get a two-digits score in the polls...
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Gna!
Also in what kind of game can you teleport other players into a danger zone ?
Then leave it to your good friends India and China.
I think you're being overly optimistic. We don't protect stagnation we protect and encourage failure. The US government tinkers in the economy more than most other free nations do, and it's almost always in the form of bailouts, protecting failing enterprises, insuring markets without demanding regulator authority. It's been going on for several decades and it's led us from one bubble to the next, and it won't stop for at least one more boom bust cycle.
Heh, socialism is better done by liberals, conservatives suck at it. If you want good government tinkering instead of thinly veiled money diversion, elect a true socialist liberal ;-)
Don't complain about taxes... 5.5% here in France is what we pay when buying necessity things like food. 19.6% is the norm for most things like a car... Cough your $400,000 please...
Get your priorities right : sex is not forbidden...
The concept of non-free wifi hotspots sounds as alien to me today as it sound the first day I encountered one.
Children sometimes do that : in order to mimick adults, they "write" lines and pretend it means something. "What's that dear ? A dotted line ?" "That means 'I love you !' "
Do you have a source about word groupings ? The wikipedia is weak on this one and seems to suggest that only characters frequency (and groups of two or three characters) have interesting characteristics...
"A lot" ? All the references I could see were about letters frequency and some words that are repeated sequentially two or three times. If you have any source I would be happy to look into them, but I wonder if the "pattern" is anything more elaborated than a Markov chain on the letters, which the human brain is fairly good at emulating.