These computers are not fast. The only reason they seem fast is that they can perform millions upon millions of operations at the same time. No one said they can do these operations quickly, and what's easy to see, is that they actually do these operations very slowly.
Take for instance today's CPUs. Imagine one person digging a hole. Today's CPUs, that would be one person digging a hole very fast (millions of operations per second). Now contrast that with DNA computers. Well, you have a billion people, all shoveling. Except this time, they shovel at 1 operation (1 dig) per week! That's how slow this is.
The gain in parallelism is the big win here. You can do many operations at once, they just take 10000x longer. But this would be immpratical for any type of user grown system. Unless you're thinking of using it for long operations only (i.e. you explicitly send long operations to your DNA module).
Also it's easy to see the difference between Quantum and DNA computing. Quantum computing is a new way of computing. New algorithms are developed, etc. DNA computer is today's computing, just massively parallel (and brutal latency).
Couldn't figure this out right away, but basically if you type #CNN_Newsfeed into a chat room (since you're put into #CNN_newsroom by default), you can click on your text as it appears (it becomes a hyperlink) and that's how you enter that chatroom.
Farhan
Why not VIM (VI Improved?)
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I've been through the large party of Java IDEs (VJ++, JBuilder, VisualAge, Forte, SlickEdit, Notepad) and I ended up back where I stared. VI. Well, kinda VI, GVIM (Graphical Vi IMproved). It's fast, flexible, offers syntax highlighting, bracket matching, multiple edit windows, online help, and all the normal VI features).
It doesn't do completion, but i've noticed that every new version add supports for more and more file types (like JSP which most Java IDEs don't really support well).
I think an interesting side note to this would be to split the MIT tuition and MIT examination fees. That way, you could have students (online or otherwise) take the same exams do the same assignments, etc.
For the courses with 100% exam scores, this would be ideal.
Maybe they could market an MIT online degree? Maybe they already have this?
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If you read Paul Graham's article, he states that smart kids are smart enough to be *social butterflys* if they want to be.
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Farhan
These computers are not fast. The only reason they seem fast is that they can perform millions upon millions of operations at the same time. No one said they can do these operations quickly, and what's easy to see, is that they actually do these operations very slowly.
Take for instance today's CPUs. Imagine one person digging a hole. Today's CPUs, that would be one person digging a hole very fast (millions of operations per second). Now contrast that with DNA computers. Well, you have a billion people, all shoveling. Except this time, they shovel at 1 operation (1 dig) per week! That's how slow this is.
The gain in parallelism is the big win here. You can do many operations at once, they just take 10000x longer. But this would be immpratical for any type of user grown system. Unless you're thinking of using it for long operations only (i.e. you explicitly send long operations to your DNA module).
Also it's easy to see the difference between Quantum and DNA computing. Quantum computing is a new way of computing. New algorithms are developed, etc. DNA computer is today's computing, just massively parallel (and brutal latency).
Thanks... sometimes I feel dumb : ) But for some reason, didn't think this was a *real* IRC session, but I guess it is...
Farhan
Couldn't figure this out right away, but basically if you type #CNN_Newsfeed into a chat room (since you're put into #CNN_newsroom by default), you can click on your text as it appears (it becomes a hyperlink) and that's how you enter that chatroom.
Farhan
I've been through the large party of Java IDEs (VJ++, JBuilder, VisualAge, Forte, SlickEdit, Notepad) and I ended up back where I stared. VI. Well, kinda VI, GVIM (Graphical Vi IMproved). It's fast, flexible, offers syntax highlighting, bracket matching, multiple edit windows, online help, and all the normal VI features).
It doesn't do completion, but i've noticed that every new version add supports for more and more file types (like JSP which most Java IDEs don't really support well).
It even has menus for the VI newbies : )
I think an interesting side note to this would be to split the MIT tuition and MIT examination fees. That way, you could have students (online or otherwise) take the same exams do the same assignments, etc.
For the courses with 100% exam scores, this would be ideal.
Maybe they could market an MIT online degree? Maybe they already have this?
The only thing that scares me about this is that the the top names in crypo work at Zero Knowledge.
How could such advocates of privacy let this happen?