The 'Climate Overshoot' website
Earlier this evening, as I was working on my laptop, I noticed that it was rapidly heating up, to the extent that it was burning my skin through two layers of cloth. This is a device that routinely ru…
computing power
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What the bitcoin price drop reveals about 'crypto'
One of the definitive downsides of cryptocurrencies raised its head this week when the nosediving price of bitcoin – brought on by the Luna/Terra crash and subsequent cascading effects – rendered bitc…
The way we talk about computing power
Whenever I hear someone rhapsodize about how much more computer power we have now compared with what was available in the 1960s during the Apollo era, I cringe. Those comparisons usually grossly under…
An Indian supercomputer by 2017. Umm...
This is a tricky question. And for background, here's the tweet from IBN Live that caught my eye. https://twitter.com/ibnlive/status/247262774898593792 (If you didn't read the IBN piece, thi…
Eigenstates of the human mind
1. Would a mind's computing strength be determined by its ability to make sense of counter-intuitive principles (Type I) or by its ability to solve an increasing number of simple problems in a se…