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Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less?

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“But the ingenuity that computer scientists have put into algorithms have yielded performance improvements that make even the exponential gains of Moore’s Law look trivial,” said Edward Lazowska, a professor at the University of Washington. And, as a result, there’s a different type of activity on the software layer.

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The Price of Free is Actually Too High

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I think my favorite, only because it’s so provocative, is the one with Roger McNamee titled ‘You Have a Persuasion Engine Unlike Any Created in History’. I just read the article and all of the attached long-form interviews. Tristian’s punch line “The problem with Facebook is Facebook” hints at this.

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Can You Ski Off The Top Of The Train In Polar Express?

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My friend and I were watching Polar Express with our kids last night, and he commented on the impossibility of skiing down the top of a train towards the engine, even on a crazy steep slope. I know you like to geek out on software and things such as figuring out the algorithms behind slip numbers, how about physics?

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Enchantress of Number and The Concept of Universal Computation

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In his article, Wolfram uses the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine as the focal point to undercover and explain what Ada Lovelace actually accomplished. One that jumped out at me was: “Ada seems to have understood with some clarity the traditional view of programming: that we engineer programs to do things we know how to do.

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Boulder Is For Robots

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OccamRobotics , founded by a serial entrepreneur who came to Boulder from the bay area, is working on low-cost, autonomous pallet trucks that build up on recent breakthroughs in robotic algorithms, availability of open-source tools , and novel sensors.

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The Neurotech Era

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It’d also give humans a new tool to keep up with the job-destroying features of ever-smarter algorithms. That type of communication would have a huge impact on the pace of innovation, as scientists and engineers could work more fluidly together. The impact goes deeper than the personal, though.