Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer
Japan builds MDGrape3 - a petaflop supercomputer for a measly $9 million. The hardware is specialized, but may possibly be suitable for neural simulation.
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Singularity Institute
Accelerating Future has a piece about some interesting progress for the Singularity Institute. Apparently they have offices right here in SF. I still believe that the Friendly AI initiative will have a hard time achieving meaningful success. I think it’s more …
Nanofactory Collaboration
CRN reports:
Nanotechnologists Robert A. Freitas, Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle have launched a “Nanofactory Collaboration” website. Too early, or just the right timing?
NPR piece on Singularity with Doctorow and Vinge
NPR : Man-Machine Merger Arriving Sooner Than You Think
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Amazon releases grid storage
Price is reasonable too!
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon S3 / Amazon Web Services
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Three systems of action
CRN posts a review of their “Three Systems of Action” - Guardian, Commercial and Information. Parallels to Government, Industry and Open-Source.
Responsible Nanotechnology: Systems Working Together
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People Aggregator - unification of social networks?
Federated, single-signon, standards based. What’s not to like?
BroadBand Mechanics presents People Aggregator
Web site is not fully functional yet, so have to wait.
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More "everything exists" links
http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.pdf http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302131.pdf http://www.physica.freeserve.co.uk/
Computable universes
Looks like there are some people working on the “all quantized universes exist” angle: Jürgen Schmidhuber’s Computable Universes page.
A final theory and the Omniverse
I just read “The Cosmic Landscape” by Leonard Susskind. Susskind believes that the small magnitude of the cosmological constant (119 zero digits after the decimal) compared to a randomly generated constant (which is likely to be close to to unity) leads to a …