You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike… Remember these? Recently they have been reprinted. I saw a bunch in a bookstore two months ago. I wrote this year’s annual Christmas letter in the format of a …More
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Faster and faster
January 4, 2007
Holographic Storage Longmont (CO) – Having shipped an apparently small number of holographic storage systems in late 2006 and in the first days of 2007, Inphase today said that it has signed Germany-based DSM as original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of …More
Intel Pledges 80 Cores in Five Years
September 26, 2006
Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second. CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer …More
Not Quite Gods
July 13, 2006
Where else but Stanford can one amble out at twilight for a walk and come across a two-time Pulitzer prize winner giving a talk on the importance of History? Joanna and I were taking a stroll last night and we …More
Passover in LA
April 17, 2006
I’m afraid I’ve fallen behind on my blog again. It happens from time to time when I am very busy. I was going to post a huge picture bomb of all the things I have done in the past two …More
Burckhardt's Full Stop vs. Chaitin's Omega
April 6, 2006
I haven’t updated my blog recently, and I have had this post from Spring Break sitting around on my computer unposted for about a week. I went home for Spring Break this year, instead of going to LA with Jo, …More
Lamer than Christopher Tolkien
February 8, 2006
Just finishing up my Susan musings, I was wondering why it is that great authors so often are followed by lame, talentless hacks. The quintessential example is Christopher Tolkien, of course. — On 22 January 1957 C.S. Lewis wrote to …More
The God Who Loves You
February 2, 2006
The Problem of Susan Neil Gaiman — She has the dream again that night. In the dream, she is standing, with her brothers and her sister, on the edge of the battlefield. It is summer, and the grass is a …More
"DAMN IT!" – Jack Bauer
January 10, 2006
I’ve been back in California for almost two days now (though it doesn’t seem like it has been that long). It’s been a great 48 hours, and a good start to the quarter. Highlights have included: Playing poker with Doougle’s …More
