In reply to RC Macaulay's message of Mon, 16 May 2005 21:45:43
-0500:
Hi Richard,
Why precisely 3450 RPM?
[snip]
Ron,
The cavitation products made by Hydro dynamics Inc. apparently differ from the
device used by Knuke. Dr. M.W Youds website has a vortex device that may be
closer to what Knuke
This sounds like a variation of the
SMOT ball theme.
Does anyone know anything about it?
Are there any patents for this Keith?
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Howard Johnson Witness Wants to See Linear
Magnet Accelerator Developed
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Hi Robin,
The M.W.Youds website mentions patents for his device operating at 7225 RPM
to achieve the result he reported. He mentioned gamma radiation present so
we are careful.
Our standard gas inductors run at 3450 RPM.
We are working on a design for speeds to 10,500 RPM with VFD drive. Design
At 01:50 am 1/05/2005 -0700, Frank Grimer wrote:
This sounds like a variation of the
SMOT ball theme.
Does anyone know anything about it?
Are there any patents for this Keith?
===
Howard Johnson Witness Wants to See Linear
Magnet Accelerator
From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Atlanta subway cars are made by
the same company, but they appear to be fully automatic -- as far as I can
tell. The driver does not touch the controls once the train starts to move,
or when it pulls into the station and stops.
That is basicly
At 01:23 pm 17/05/2005 +0100, Frank Grimer wrote:
Thanks to the miracle of the Google search
engine I've been able to answer my own
request with everything on the accelerator
that anyone would want to know [and some 8^) ]
http://www.rexresearch.com/johnson/1johnson.htm
It is clear that in the
The article I referred to yesterday is K. Boahen, Neuromorphic
Microchips, Scientific American, May 2005, p. 56. The relevant quote is on
the first page:
The brain does not execute coded instruction; instead it activates links,
or synapses, between neurons. Each such activation is equivalent
At 08:58 am 17/05/2005 -0400, you wrote:
From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Atlanta subway cars are made by
the same company, but they appear to be fully automatic -- as far as I can
tell. The driver does not touch the controls once the train starts to move,
or when it pulls into
Mark Bilk writes,
The 26-episode (so far) animé Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone
Complex
is replaying, one ep per night, on the (cable/satellite) Cartoon
Network.
It has people uploading their minds (ghosts) into artificial
bodies (shells)
and into the Net, also some autonomous AIs. Very good
Jed,
So computers are already within a factor of 1 million. Perhaps
they will have to come within a 3 to 5 orders of magnitude
before they begin to look intelligent to us.
Wait a second. I hate to harp on a silly toy, and a hyped-up
news story, largely overlooked in its ultimate impact, but
Jones Beene wrote:
The price/performance ratio between that first one and this new one is...
lets see 8000 times more storage - for about twenty times less $$ =
160,000:1 . . .
I don't think there has been anything which can match this phenomenal
change in value in the history of
Big oops on tera
still haven't good my expresso machine installed !!
tera=10^12 so we are not as close as claimed in premature post,
but could still be a factor of 100-1000 away with the Xbox,
depending on the flop to neural connection ratio.
I still think the xbox can be taught to do
wouldnt work. the modern disks heat up mostly due to the head/platter
interaction. if you COULD make heads that small (unlikely) the
friction would melt the platter down. a multihead idea thats not
quite that ambitious might be useful though.
On 5/17/05, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Jones,
A flop is a floating point operation, I don't know how you/they
get from one flop to the action of a neuron. It's probably
closer to 100 flops/neuron, maybe much more. I'm guessing the
first hack for xbox+ will be simulating nuclear bombs, expect
a rush order from Iran shortly (
A nice overview (~200pages) of the brain and the emerging science of
consciousness is:
Stairway to the mind By Alwyn Scott; 1995 Copernicus
in which he discusses the non-linear emergance of the mind from brain
function.
paraphrasing...
...How is the observed activity of the brain related
From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW, my first HD was a whopping 20 megs and cost over $1000.
Hah! In 1976 I paid $30,000 for a 1 Mbyte hard drive for a 911 dispatch
center. :-Þ
BTW, I am involved in a digital video security system procurement for MARTA
which will involve multiple
- Original Message -
From: Ron Wormus,
A nice overview (~200pages) of the brain and the emerging science
of consciousness is:
Stairway to the mind By Alwyn Scott; 1995 Copernicus
Here is a much more optimistic assessment (from the perspective of
the AI advocate),
where the writer
leaking pen wrote:
wouldnt work. the modern disks heat up mostly due to the head/platter
interaction. if you COULD make heads that small (unlikely) the
friction would melt the platter down. a multihead idea thats not
quite that ambitious might be useful though.
Conventional (floating head)
From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The SciAm article says that Synaptic activity is staggering: 10
quadrillion (10^16) neural connections a second.
These types of comparisons with electronics are meaningless. Each neuron has
over 100 dendrites and each dendrite might touch a different
leaking pen will not spare us petty details:
wouldnt work. the modern disks heat up mostly due to the head/platter
interaction.
Ah, then we must go even more retro, and lift the array of read write heads
so far above the platter, you can see a crack of light between them. By the
way, this array
From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is no way to compare a brain to a computer:
http://www.cochrane.org.uk/opinion/articles/intelligenceandlife.php
There is an ironic error in the cited article:
Micro-machines and nano-technology will most likely create the next major
advance
Terry,
These types of comparisons with electronics are meaningless.
...Hmm... meaning like beauty... may exist in the mind of the
beholder, and several intelligent perspectives on this subject can
coexist while differing markedly on the meaning each assigns to
these efforts at cross-comparison.
Good point, Ron.
Each of those neurons are acting in parallel, all functioning
simultaneously. Trying to simulate this with a single threaded
machine is just not practical. Another sort of architecture
is required, like maybe using carbon rather than silicon *grin*
Sort of like nanotechnology.
ammend that. yes, the heads are pretty small. the hookup wires
though... that might be a problem.
and yeah, that sounds like a feature microsoft would add. of course,
remember, since the platter changes size dramatically as it heats up,
the array of read heads would have to be able to expand
From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eloquent; however, IMO, we will not recognize the world 100, even 50 years
from now.
Damn. I was so engrossed trying to figure out how much to pay Jonesee that I
left off my DNA quote (you noticed he was born the year Crick, Watson, et.al.
From: Terry Blanton
...
I've been pondering whether to renew my SciAm subscription.
Hmmm, maybe not.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody
discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is
here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by
something even more
Given the amount of published enthusiasm about redox
flow batteries, you'd think we'd all be driving vanadium battery
electric cars
by now. Instead, despite promises of
commercialization, I encounter nothing but phone numbers and e-mails
that go unanswered.
The Hard Drive is on its way out .. Currently MRAM is the NEW replacement
technology
In the near future they will achieve Hard Drive densities
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=lang_enc2coff=1q=MRAM
How MRAM Works
http://www.nve.com/otherbiz/mram.php
Data is written by a small
See:
http://members.nuvox.net/~on.jwclymer/snf/
This includes a 1982 patent.
- Jed
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like something Douglas Adams would have said. ;-)
Uh, like, yeah, Douglas Noel Adams, DNA.
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jed Rothwell wrote:
[snip]
I think many people are beginning to reach the limits of disk storage
requirements. I have not filled out more than a third of a disk in several
years. If I were a manufacturer trying to compete in the hard disk business,
rather than increasing
From: Terry Blanton
...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like something Douglas Adams would have said. ;-)
Uh, like, yeah, Douglas Noel Adams, DNA.
Learn somthing new every day!
Thanks for the DNA clarification.
Regards,
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
From: Jones Beene
...
From other posts on Slashdot: The idea of storing
and transmitting information via DNA was also
proposed by Jaron Lanier in the Y2K issue of the
NYT magazine. The NYT was running a contest to come
up with a time capsule that would last till Y3K
and asked various
From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Plus this query caused a blinding flash of
remembrance about a prior typically long-winded probably
boring posting (boring to the non-Illuminated, shall we say) -
which was actually a DNA obit (or is that orbit):
You'll love Salmon. It begins
From: Terry Blanton
Damn. I was so engrossed trying to figure out how much to pay
Jonesee that I left off my DNA quote (you noticed he was born
the year Crick, Watson, et.al. determined the double helix
structure, right?):
Excellent quote. Plus this query caused a blinding flash of
Needless to say, the aptly named Jones has eschewed my cautionary
advice and eaten a whole handful of those delicious chocolate
espresso beans. Fasten your safety belts, Vo, your collective
inboxes are in for a lumpy ride.
BTW, regarding my earlier post, we already have a massively
paralleled
From: Keith Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Needless to say, the aptly named Jones has eschewed my cautionary
advice and eaten a whole handful of those delicious chocolate
espresso beans.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=q=%22chocolate+covered+coffee+beans%22
14,000 hits on the exact
I have always wondered what the potential difference was between the earth and
moon. This article extrapolates that question:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050516marineris.htm
[it has been one year since Gene was murdered. Here is an obituary I wrote
for Infinite Energy magazine. The family objected to it, so naturally I
acquiesced and withdrew it from publication. After all this time I suppose
there is no harm to uploading it here. - Jed]
Eugene Franklin Mallove
To
I came to vortex over a decade ago on a recommendation of Chris Tinsley
(he *knew* I was crazy because he was a Brit). I had bought in to the
common sense that CF was flawed. I have learned otherwise. In my
heart (and elsewhere g) I named Chris, Jed and Gene the Three
Musketeers of Cold
Zell, Chris wrote:
Given the amount of published enthusiasm about redox
flow batteries, you'd think we'd all be driving vanadium battery
electric cars
Is this what you mean?
http://www.vanadiumbattery.com/
www.buildyourownmessiah.com
At 01:01 pm 17/05/2005 -0600, Don wrote:
The Hard Drive is on its way out .. Currently MRAM is the NEW replacement
technology
In the near future they will achieve Hard Drive densities
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=lang_enc2coff=1q=MRAM
How MRAM Works
Jed,
I can understand why the family would decline to run your obit and think
they made the right choice. As well, I am glad to see what you have written
and shared publicly. It honors Gene and his search for truth. None of us is
without flaws. To reflect the fullness of Gene as you did, is
The electrophysicist James McCanney in an interview on C to C AM just
announced that he is planning on building a tower based on Tesla's
design. He proposes to charge the air molecules above it. This charge
continues until it reaches the ionosphere at which time energy starts
to flow down. It
Nick Cook, author of Hunt for the Zero Point was interviewed on C to
C AM recently. He maintains that we are on the verge of cohering the
ZPE. While I would love to see this work, I've yet to see any
evidence of it. I'm wondering if anyone has read his book? He is in
the process of setting up
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