Douglas Roberts wrote:
As long as we're dreaming, let's bring back Time Warp.
One that works, this time.
I used to think I needed to spend all of my time developing time-travel
so I could go back in time to do all the things I didn't get done while
I was wasting my time on time-travel. But then I realized it was
going to take more than one lifetime for me to build a time machine so
I thought maybe putting my time into developing cloning technology so I
could work on the problem in parallel would be the answer.
Then I realized that I wouldn't be able to decide how to distribute the
work among myselves so I decided to work on the problem of parallel
universes so that rather than breaking the problem up into smaller
pieces and then putting the pieces back together, I could instead
pursue all of approaches to the problem including the extremely
low-probability but high-payoff strategies.
Then I realized that in the multiverse, this is already happening and
one (many) of my alternate selves has already cloned himself so he
could do the bruteoforce parallel solution to developing a time machine
so he (they) could go back in time to solve whatever the original
problem they didn't have time to solve in real time.
And then I realized that there had to be many more versions of me in
the multiverse that had gone through this gedankenexperiment and
realized the futility and silliness of it all.
Somewhere, some version of me is actually doing productive work.
- Steve
--Doug
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Owen
Densmore <[email protected]>
wrote:
No, just computer architectural ignorance.
I think building a traditional "super computer" is likely an
error. Maybe we could get Roger Fry and the Connection Machine gang to
give it another shot. We should be thinking thousands of processors
with at least mesh memory, if not hyper-cube.
But even better would be gigabit networking or more to more
than a thousand nodes within the state, each running "interesting
architectures" including massive GPU farms.
Most of the current thinking is your basic application server
on steroids. Google will eventually beat all these efforts because
they are thinking plumbing/networking with scalable data stores
(NoSql). Just one smart node is not the way to go. State wide, easy
access networking with massive, low latency storage is the first step.
The institutions will add the surprises.
On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
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