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Post by jasonwatkinspdx »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #234
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #224

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When I was a kid I helped my grandpa move out of his office when he retired. He was a senior engineering fellow with Monsanto, specializing in bubble trays in refinery processes. He worked out of their big campus in St Louis, and gave me a tour as a thanks for helping him with the boxes and such. There's several things that have stuck in my memory from that tour. One was seeing their Cray. I forget which specific mod…

Thanks for sharing. I worked on the UIUC campus for some time right by the greenhouses where they experimented with cultivars of corn and other grasses, always funny to see giant 8 foot tall plants lit with sodium lamps through the winter. As for APL, I haven't really got past an orientation in the language but it's held a total mystique to me since seeing this video circa 1975 [0] walking through the language with a…

Re APL I totally know what you mean. I've never done anything with that category of language that wasn't just golfing / goofing around, but conceptually it's made an impression. Once the big picture concept clicks you look at the way we write most code and see so much bookkeeping that's just managing names and values of iterators and indexes. Lifting that up to bulk transformation of multidimensional objects is powerful, and much closer to the intuitive picture of what's going on I have in my imagination.

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gerdesj wrote: post #239

"IBM measures progress in quantum computing hardware through three performance attributes: Scale, Quality and Speed." That's nice. The real world (let alone the quantum one - whatever that means) doesn't. Please Mr IBM: Get your scientists to inform your press releases. At the moment you sound like a bit of a nob with an unfortunate affliction.

"As far as I could see, the marketing materials that IBM released yesterday take a lot of words to say absolutely nothing about what, to experts, is the single most important piece of information: namely,"

As a clever bloke (Aaronson) said: "Get a grip and give us the science (in paper form)".

His blog is quite animated.

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Post by relaxing »

walleeee wrote: post #185
gfodor wrote: post #170

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A hardware/software proxy that governs all photons you see.

This is desirable?

Look into “diminished reality” - the ability to block things out that would be a distraction, for instance.

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Post by avidphantasm »

RivieraKid wrote: post #86

Tangential question, what are the areas of technology where we can expect to see substantial progress or breakthroughs within 2030, i.e. what are the most exciting areas to follow and look forward to? Here's my list: - Nuclear fusion (Helion, ZAP, TAE, Tokamak Energy, CFS, Wendelstein). - Self-driving cars. - New types of nuclear fission reactors. - Spaceflight (SpaceX Starship). - Supersonic airplanes (Boom). - Soli…

mRNA-based therapies?

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Post by m0zg »

RivieraKid wrote: post #86

Tangential question, what are the areas of technology where we can expect to see substantial progress or breakthroughs within 2030, i.e. what are the most exciting areas to follow and look forward to? Here's my list: - Nuclear fusion (Helion, ZAP, TAE, Tokamak Energy, CFS, Wendelstein). - Self-driving cars. - New types of nuclear fission reactors. - Spaceflight (SpaceX Starship). - Supersonic airplanes (Boom). - Soli…

Half of these are on their way into "valley of disillusionment" before they become generally useful, though perhaps not as grandiose as originally promised.

And longevity research is not even a real need - we already live too long as it is, from the evolutionary and economic standpoint. I'd much rather someone came up with a way to cheaply and painlessly end one's life once quality of life begins to deteriorate due to chronic disease and such. Some kind of company (and legislative framework) where you pay, say $1K and they put you into a nitrogen chamber and then cremate and flush the ashes down the toilet afterwards. Or perhaps use them as fertilizer. I'd use the service myself at some point in distant future.

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Post by m0zg »

alasdair_ wrote: post #151
oezi wrote: post #140

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Any particular insight why 2022? Hololens 2 has shown that it isn't so easy to advance the field. I don't think an Apple device is forthcoming or likely to leapfrog.

> Any particular insight why 2022? Facebook, Apple and others are releasing their first AR glasses then.

And there will be approximately zero non-gimmick software for them until at least 2032, if it ever materializes at all.

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Post by exdsq »

robotresearcher wrote: post #226
exdsq wrote: post #212

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You’ve just given me my weekend plans, thank you very much! They have a working IBM 1401 that you can see in action too!

CHM homepage says it’s closed to the public ‘until later this year’.

Damn it

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Post by mhh__ »

teryyy wrote: post #105
RivieraKid wrote: post #86

Tangential question, what are the areas of technology where we can expect to see substantial progress or breakthroughs within 2030, i.e. what are the most exciting areas to follow and look forward to? Here's my list: - Nuclear fusion (Helion, ZAP, TAE, Tokamak Energy, CFS, Wendelstein). - Self-driving cars. - New types of nuclear fission reactors. - Spaceflight (SpaceX Starship). - Supersonic airplanes (Boom). - Soli…

Synthetic meat of all kinds, ARM based processors, deep learning + AI, agtech/vertical farming/etc.

> ARM based processors

Compared to most of the other things listed, this is more of a nerd-aestheticism thing rather than something which is hugely important technologically.

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