Sunday, March 3, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
THE WORLD JUST CHANGED
I would like to make an announcement here.
Today is March 1, 2013
Please view the following Youtube video.
The Primer Fields #1
Try and remember that last year of science, or that Physics 101 series. Then listen closely.
It's very easy to understand, but ground breaking.
It explains how energy can now be thought of as something that flows freer than water.
It is very important that everyone understand how this all works.
I would like to make an announcement here.
Today is March 1, 2013
Please view the following Youtube video.
Try and remember that last year of science, or that Physics 101 series. Then listen closely.
It's very easy to understand, but ground breaking.
It explains how energy can now be thought of as something that flows freer than water.
It is very important that everyone understand how this all works.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Welcome
“Ray Kurzweil,” is associated with the popular interpretation of the Technological Singularity, often referred to as the accelerating change thesis. In his book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Kurzweil defined the Technological Singularity as:
“… a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian nor dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lifes, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself.”
Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns In his essay, The Law of Accelerating Returns, Ray Kurzweil proposes a generalization of Moore’s law that forms the basis of many people’s beliefs regarding the Singularity. Moore’s law describes an exponential growth pattern in the complexity of integrated semiconductor circuits. Kurzweil extends this to include technologies from far before the integrated circuit to future forms of computation. He believes that the exponential growth of Moore’s law will continue beyond the use of integrated circuits into technologies that will lead to the Singularity.
The law described by Ray Kurzweil has in many ways altered the public’s perception of Moore’s law. It is a common (but mistaken) belief that Moore’s law makes predictions regarding all forms of technology, when really it only concerns semiconductor circuits. Many futurologists still use the term “Moore’s law” to describe ideas like those put forth by Kurzweil.
However, the term is commonly misunderstood to mean technological progress will rise to infinity, as happens in a mathematical singularity. But, this is not wholly accurate. The term was chosen as a metaphor from physics rather than mathematics: as one approaches the Singularity, models of the future become less reliable, just as conventional models of physics break down as one approaches a gravitational singularity.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
“… a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian nor dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lifes, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself.”
Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns In his essay, The Law of Accelerating Returns, Ray Kurzweil proposes a generalization of Moore’s law that forms the basis of many people’s beliefs regarding the Singularity. Moore’s law describes an exponential growth pattern in the complexity of integrated semiconductor circuits. Kurzweil extends this to include technologies from far before the integrated circuit to future forms of computation. He believes that the exponential growth of Moore’s law will continue beyond the use of integrated circuits into technologies that will lead to the Singularity.
The law described by Ray Kurzweil has in many ways altered the public’s perception of Moore’s law. It is a common (but mistaken) belief that Moore’s law makes predictions regarding all forms of technology, when really it only concerns semiconductor circuits. Many futurologists still use the term “Moore’s law” to describe ideas like those put forth by Kurzweil.
However, the term is commonly misunderstood to mean technological progress will rise to infinity, as happens in a mathematical singularity. But, this is not wholly accurate. The term was chosen as a metaphor from physics rather than mathematics: as one approaches the Singularity, models of the future become less reliable, just as conventional models of physics break down as one approaches a gravitational singularity.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Japans new supercomputer does 8.16 Quadrillion computations
Japan's 'K computer' petaflops its way to the top
By Alice Vincent20 June 11
Japan's slipped back into the fast lane -- in the world of supercomputing, that is, after its "K computer" sped into the top spot of the TOP500 list at the International Supercomputing Conference.
The prizewinning machine is, unsurprisingly, a bit of a beast. Comprised of 672 computer racks equipped with a current total of 68, 544 CPUS it churns out a performance of 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations, or calculations, per second). This is the world's best LINPACK benchmark performance (the means used to assess computer speed) -- and the "K computer" is only half-built.
"K computer" is the product of a joint effort from RIKEN and Fujitsu, who aim to begin sharing its super-speedy abilities by November 2012 to help with "global climate research, meteorology, disaster prevention and medicine." It's just as well the areas where the machine is meant to have "groundbreaking impact", as the energy "K computer" takes to run would also fuel 10,000 homes, costing a cool $10 million per year. That's from a machine with an "extraordinarily high computing efficiency ratio of 93 percent".
When it nears its completion date, "K computer" will be operating at 10 petaflops -- reflecting the intentions behind its name: "Kei" meaning 10 quadrillions -- and beating rival China, whose supercomputer proved faster in October 2010. Representatives from RIKEN and Fujitsu were understandably "delighted" with K computer's achievement, not least because it succeeded despite the devastation caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake earlier this year.
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