Charles Rosenbauer
@bzogrammer
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Building the future of computing at @uscompco Algorithmic dark matter, and other things
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Joined January 2019
I actually think software as a whole would be better off if we heavily restricted the amount of advertising that was legally allowed. People would get used to actually paying for software again, and software quality would improve.
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I feel like a schizo oral culture might be an effective way to explore ideas for the next major literate cultural age, but the mass synchronization of the internet actually slows this process down tremendously. The optimal amount of communication is not infinite nor constant.
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RT @rustbeltkid1: The current admin is cutting handouts left and right, NCGA comes in and taunts all of America with the grand daddy of the…
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@eladgil @Scholars_Stage Still none that can compare with a random insurance company in Sheboygan (Acuity). 70x140 ft
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It's always nice when a very close old friend you haven't heard from in years finally texts you back and wants to reconnect.
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@AHVanBuskirk @Paul_America Von Neumann was one of the creators of game theory and used it to justify the first-strike approach to nuclear war.
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A lot of the future of appliances is probably smarter appliances - not in terms of something that just collects your data for nebulous reasons, but something that actually allows you to more precisely control things. The bottleneck isn't the tech though, it's in finding compelling use cases like tastier boiled eggs.
Today's nerd snipe: > boiled eggs suck because yolk and white are best cooked at diff. temperatures > talented chefs try to do this by cooking eggs sous-vide between 60°C and 70°C, but still not good enough unless they use complex techniques to separate white and yolk > Nature paper figures out how to cook eggs evenly by duty-cycling the temperature of water between 30°C and 100°C every 2 mins, derived from a model of heat transfer between yolk and white > @sdamico implements the paper using his stoves that can hold water steady at 30°C and 100°C I wonder what other culinary unlocks are possible when your stovetop comes with a closed loop control system
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@bubblebabyboi Aren't these video compression chips usually CGRAs? Basically FPGAs with ALUs instead of LUTs.
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@ad0rnai I was briefly in a gifted program in school, but they didn't like my grades on account of me spending my time teaching myself C programming and neuroscience rather than handing in homework. I still aced all the tests though.
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@JigarShahDC @DanielleFong Crazy that Phoenix is the fifth most populous city in the US and it doesn't even register here.
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@DanielleFong And while we're at it...
So you can solve climate change by blowing up the Kerguelen plateau with an 80 gigaton nuke
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RT @onionweigher: HOLY SHIT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW AMERICAN CHESTNUT IS BACK BABY
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RT @benlandautaylor: When people talk about selectively adopting technology to preserve culture, they usually bring up the Amish, and that’…
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RT @Devon_Eriksen_: Don't imagine Trump as a 4D chess player. That's the wrong metaphor. Imagine him instead as a fencer. He has a sword…
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Backpropagation and training of neural networks is costly enough that no one ever wants to do proper online/continuous learning like what the brain does. Even if you did, DNNs consistently need far more examples to learn something than humans do. LLMs consume entire internet-scale datasets, millions of times more data than any human could consume in a lifetime, and yet they're still clearly lacking some form of general intelligence that a toddler or an animal possesses.
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Prepare for hundreds of articles now about how paper straws are a greater invention than fire or the wheel.
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@usgraphics I keep trying to tell people this : Computing isn't even a century old. I know people who remember a time before the first computers were built. Many other major technologies are many centuries old, some tens or hundreds. We are still in the very early days of computing.
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