MareNostrum The supercomputers I am showing here are powerful almost beyond human understanding. The can map every molecule of the billions on a human DNA string, scrutinize at the atomic level the collision between two pieces of plutonium in an …More
Tag: supercomputers
LOL! THE INTERNETS!
November 16, 2005
A recent exchange on su.class.cs140: “Shedletsky”: “make check” fails with error 127 on myth27 for both our assigments 2 and 3, but if we log on to myth2, it works. What’s the deal? Has myth27 evolved sentience and is too …More
Evil Supercomputers are Our Superiors
August 25, 2005
Here I examine the flip-side of yesterday’s topic. Namely, if you were a super-intelligent evil supercomputer bent on world domination, how would you go about taking over the world? How to Take Over the World First, make yourself indispensable to …More
An argument against the Singularity
July 14, 2005
First off, WikiPedia is awesome. A brilliant idea. WikiPedia “Technological Singularity“:In future studies, a technological singularity is a predicted time at which technological progress accelerates beyond the ability of present-day humans to fully comprehend or predict. Such a singularity was …More
Chess is a Storm Against Man
May 8, 2005
On the Romance of Regicide: The Turk, Kasparov, and Deep Blue “Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for,” the oft-quoted aphorism of Dutch Grandmaster Hans Rees, most succinctly describes the human obsession with the ancient game of kings. …More
