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Wrote a blog post on the technologies I believe are going to change industries 1. No-Code Tools 2. GraphQL 3. Oculus Quest 4. FPGA 5. Netflix for Gamers 6. Windows for Linux 7. Notion 8. Animation Engines https://jay.kanakiya.in/blog/what-i-am-excited-about-in-2020...
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> Are you referring to written notation? Calling that geometry is a bit of a stretch. Can you write without shape? > There's also nothing geometric about maths encoded in computer code Look at a computer chip under a microscope: nothing but geometry. > or many types of mathematical thoughts In re: math itself, perhaps there is such a thing as a mathematics of the formless (I doubt it but cannot rule it out) but to co…
> and it is intrinsically a geometric act. Why? Can't you have distinction without geometry? It's not only position which can be distinct, you can have other properties. Two digits in different position on paper can be both different - 0 and 1 - and the same - 5 and 5. You can encode them not by shape, but, say, by kind of particle? And in general, our physical world has space - but how would you prove a world withou…
Maybe but I don't see how.
> It's not only position which can be distinct, you can have other properties.
Properties like what? Color, sound, temperature, etc., all of these are geometric, no? Can you think of a concrete physical property that doesn't reduce to some kind of geometry?
> You can encode them not by shape, but, say, by kind of particle?
Sure, but then that particle must have some distinction from every other particle, either intrinsic or extrinsic (in relation to other particles), no?
Any sort of real-world distinction-making device has to have form, so that eliminates real non-geometric distinctions.
It may be possible to imagine a formless symbol but I've tried and I can't do it.
The experience of Dr. Taylor indicates to me that the brain constructs the subjective experience of symbolic distinction. (Watching her talk from an epistemological POV is really fascinating!)
So that only leaves some kind of mystic realm of formless, uh, "things". My experience has convinced me that "the formless" is both real and non-symbolic, however by the very nature of the thing I can't symbolize this knowledge.
In the Beginning was the Void
And the Void was without Form
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Generally, yes absolutely. I’ve been doing a project called “NanoSavSeq” (Nanopore Saliva Sequencing) in my free time. It’s published on dat right now since the raw files for Nanopore are really big (got too big for hashbase). There is one company doing it as well, but my version is completely open source and I’ve optimized it for affordable automation. To give you a sense, you can buy one for 1k and do as much detec…
Would love to know more. This is fascinating.
You can visit with the beaker browser, or share it through dat so it won't ever go down.
You can also visit it at http://www.nanosavseq.com/ (DNS is not up yet, http://167.172.195.83/book/index.html is direct)
It's embarrassingly barren right now, mainly since I've encountered some big problems with getting my DNA quantifier out of storage to start doing a lot more experiments. I'm getting that on Tuesday, so will be updating site then.
Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…
Can't help but laugh whenever I read about self driving cars predictions like this sorry. My GPS can hardly navigate most of the world I'm not really excited and if the only criteria of self driving car is self driving on a high way then color me uninterested. I don't think self driving cars will be able to traverse majority of the world's traffic anytime soon. The road is just too difficult to maintain for human fre…
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> and it is intrinsically a geometric act. Why? Can't you have distinction without geometry? It's not only position which can be distinct, you can have other properties. Two digits in different position on paper can be both different - 0 and 1 - and the same - 5 and 5. You can encode them not by shape, but, say, by kind of particle? And in general, our physical world has space - but how would you prove a world withou…
> Why? Can't you have distinction without geometry? Maybe but I don't see how. > It's not only position which can be distinct, you can have other properties. Properties like what? Color, sound, temperature, etc., all of these are geometric, no? Can you think of a concrete physical property that doesn't reduce to some kind of geometry? > You can encode them not by shape, but, say, by kind of particle? Sure, but then t…
How would you reduce charge to geometry? Or spin?
Can we differentiate by space the electrons in an atom of helium?
But we sort of digress. The question was if a concept of space is required to a concept of math, and specifically, if we can have distinction without space. Surely we can at least think of distinction without space, even if we'd fail to present that in our physical world?
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> The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU, and a big solid state disk. That's a lot of compute engine for $400. Somebody will probably make supercomputers out of rooms full of those. Mmm, this sounds like exactly what people said at the time the PS3 was going to be released, and I can only recall of one example where the PS3 was ever used in a cluster and that probably was not that…
This exactly. The PS5 and Xbox One X are commodity PC hardware, optimized for gaming, packaged with a curated App Store. Sony also won’t just sell you hundreds or thousands of them for some kind of groundbreakingly cheap cluster. They will say no, unless you’re GameStop or Walmart. Everyone with a high-mid-range PC already has more horsepower than a PS5 and it’s not doing anything particularly innovative or groundbre…
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Some feedback. I think I stumbled upon Zerotier a while back and didn't really get what it is. IIRC it felt like something that is only useful for big companies, exactly what I felt today. I think the website could do a better job showcasing how it's used. Hope my feedback is helpful and wish all the best!
Our web site kind of sucks. We're going to be working with a design/marketing firm to re-do it soon. It's kind of hard to explain ZeroTier sometimes. Its so simple (to the user) people have a hard time getting it. "You just make a network and connect stuff." Huh? People have been conditioned to think networking is hard because 90% of networking software is crap.
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This exactly. The PS5 and Xbox One X are commodity PC hardware, optimized for gaming, packaged with a curated App Store. Sony also won’t just sell you hundreds or thousands of them for some kind of groundbreakingly cheap cluster. They will say no, unless you’re GameStop or Walmart. Everyone with a high-mid-range PC already has more horsepower than a PS5 and it’s not doing anything particularly innovative or groundbre…
> Everyone with a high-mid-range PC already has more horsepower than a PS5 and it’s not doing anything particularly innovative or groundbreaking. The fact that it can stream 5.5gb/s from disk to RAM says otherwise. Commodity hardware, even high end m.2 drives can’t match that. * it’s my understanding that it directly shares RAM between the CPU and the GPU which means way less latency and more throughput.
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I would never trust any self driving car that didn't use LiDAR. It's an essential sensor for helping to fix issues like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSw4fXYqWI&feature=emb_logo And it's not contrived since we've seen situations of Telsa Autopilot behaving weirdly when it sees people on the side of billboards, trucks etc.
LIDAR vs camera is a red herring. The fact that Elon and his fan club fixate on this shows you how little they understand about self driving. The fundamental problem is that there is no technology that can provide the level of reasoning that is necessary for self driving. Andrej Karpathy's most recent presentation showed how his team trained a custom detector for stop signs with an "Except right turn" text underneath…
https://www.sens.org : Solving the problem of aging and diseases of aging. Watch a few interviews of Aubrey de Grey to get a better idea of the possibilities of their research. Though this would come under the "to watch" not for the immediate future but for the next decade or two.
One thing that's not clear to me is the advantage of living longer. Why do some people feel the need to live longer? When I hear of blood transfusion and such, it also feels like a lot of these technologies are being developed by snakeoil salespeople to other nongullible but strictly egocentric humans.
Practically speaking, there are a lot of advantages to longer lives:
- Generally, it means people will be healthier, which means reduced societal burden.
- A deeper family structure can mean better education and childcare. You have more time to be with your friends and family, more time to pursue hobbies, more time to explore the world.
- Scientists, engineers and researchers can spend more time building and leveraging their expertise. If people live 20% longer for example, I suspect there's more than a 20% increase in advancement because in so many fields breakthroughs happen near the end of your career.
Of course, there will be consequences that need to be addressed.
- Does this only lead to increased inequity, where the wealthy are able to accumulate wealth and knowledge even more easily due to access to anti aging. Already there's a 14 year difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest 1%, imagine if that was 50 years.
- How do we adjust our social safety nets when people are living to 100 instead of 80?
- How does this change over-population and over-consumption?