But wait a minute… Just how can someone use this computing capacity? How many problems in the world really need the ability to calculate an enormous number of permutations with blazingly fast precision? You would be surprised. Consider the complexity of forecasting the weather, or fluid dynamics, or (wait for it…) cracking complex mathematical hashes. […]
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Pay attention, Tesla is NOT a car company!
I love all the articles by analysts talking about how Tesla stock is soaring, how their market cap is larger the Ford and GM, yada yada yada….. The problem is everyone is missing the point. Tesla is NOT A CAR COMPANY, they are a Software and IT company. The magic of a Tesla is not […]
My time on Mars.
It occurred to me at one point this is probably as close to feeling like a Martian that I will get. I’m OK with that….
Owning an EV – A 1-month Retrospective
About a month ago, I bought a Tesla Model S. As I was driving it today, stuck in traffic, I started to relive all of the various events and emotions that transpired over the last 30 days and felt compelled to capture them. Most of the time you read articles about the car’s performance or […]
AI and the Interstellar Space Paradox
If we build decision making into an AI, how does one build an AI that will not decide to either ignore an outcome or build it’s own set of morals as it matures? A true AI is supposed to learn from decisions it makes. Like a child, it is supposed to make mistakes, learn from them, and then not make the mistake again.
Suppressing Color to Make Color
Often we think of adding color (“painting or pigments”) as the only means of creating color but thanks to the neverending spectrum of light, which contains all colors, nature chose to employ nanotubes to create new colors where there were no pigments to be found. I know this sounds a bit crazy. I swear I […]
Cannabinoid Confusion
“Note: This article is neither an endorsement or criticism of THC use. It is merely a thought exercise.” If you want a blatant “slap in the face” about how little we understand brain chemistry, do what I did. Google on over to the Scientific American website (love this magazine). Now search for the term “THC”. […]
The Future of Energy – “Did we miss something?”
Any discussion about energy production includes the usual cast of characters: But in reading through some of the material from this years World’s Fair/Expo 2017 I got to thinking, are their viable alterative energy sources on the horizon? I figured it was time to catch up on some reading! As a frame of reference, consider […]