On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 08:27:53PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
you might want to google biological computing - you'll start finding
things like this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer
(title: Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators)
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:35 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/2/2013 10:31 PM, Simon Forman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose
pernicious snares need to be handled better.
In
To: Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com; Fundamentals of New Computing
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Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:09 PM
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On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
As humans, we are used to being sloppy about message creation and sending
BGB wrote:
Whoa, I think you just invented nanotech organelles, at least this
is the first time I've heard that idea and it seems pretty
mind-blowing. What would a cell use a cpu for?
mostly so that microbes could be programmed in a manner more like
larger-scale computers.
say, the
On 1/3/2013 7:27 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
BGB wrote:
Whoa, I think you just invented nanotech organelles, at least this
is the first time I've heard that idea and it seems pretty
mind-blowing. What would a cell use a cpu for?
mostly so that microbes could be programmed in a manner more
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose
pernicious snares need to be handled better.
In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully through
noisy channels -- where the noise also
On 1/2/2013 10:31 PM, Simon Forman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose
pernicious snares need to be handled better.
In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
As humans, we are used to being sloppy about message creation and sending,
and rely on negotiation and good will after the fact to deal with errors.
You might be interested in my article on avoiding commitment in HCI, and
its
The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose
pernicious snares need to be handled better.
In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully through noisy
channels -- where the noise also affects whatever we add to the messages to
help (and we may have
My thinking has been going the other way for some time now. I see the problem
as the need to build bigger systems than any individual can currently imagine.
The real value from computers isn#39;t just collecting the input from a single
person, but rather #39;combining#39; the inputs from huge
Read this guy!
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose
pernicious snares need to be handled better.
In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully through
noisy channels --
Inline.
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose
pernicious snares need to be handled better.
In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully through
noisy channels -- where the
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