In-memory computation != “dreams and goals”. It’s just a way of increasing the processing parallelism. Which is interesting, to be sure, but it’s not magic. You’re really sounding out of your depth here.

What’s the difference whether you store the eight states as one “bit” or three, as would be done in binary representation? Memory is cheap these days, so this part of it really has nothing to do with achieving AI. On-memory computation is potentially interesting, but has nothing to do with the representation of the…

Almost every language has identifiers for 8-bit (byte and sbyte), 16-bit (ushort and short), 32-bit (uint and int) and 64-bit (ulong and long). The names are sometimes different, that’s just the naming from C-like languages.

Okay, some problems with this article and the comments below...

I doubt you want to understand this but your thinking is way off and it’s not due to lack of creativity, you seem to have enough to write fun sci-fi.

SO how does measuring say 10 discreet states rather than two discreet states make a difference? How does it differ than simply simulating the 10 discreet states with more than one storage unit with two discreet states? That doesn’t sound like a meaningful distinction.

Electrons travel ~ 2200 km/s while they are orbiting the nucleus, but this isn’t the relevant speed to data transfer. The relevant metric is data (wave) propagation speed. Electrons “don’t shoot down an empty tube”, the energy moves from electron to electron.

What you are saying doesn’t make any sense. Mixing AI with how memory is stored. This just provides faster read-write access and may be offloads computation from the CPU. How can you jump from that to AI that can reason, dream. Next stop bring quantum entanglement so that we can all bask about the future. Ugh…

To be fair, he started with his shirt and by the time I saw him reach for the button on his jeans, I was like. “Nope nope nope nope...”

I did not want to find out. I mean, WTF? First this guy shows me pictures of his NAKED FAMILY. (Some were in poses, like... against a tree, there is the whole family naked. And WHO was taking the pictures?)

No, its to have some social skills and learn how to spot creepers and dickwads before they ruin your game. Being aware and learning from other people’s experiences helps you have more fun in the future.

Most RPG players have had that magical group. You know the one: you stay up until 6am. You play for 15 hours straight. It’s awesome. Notes are flying. Secrets are being revealed. Crits are being rolled (or fumbles). Then, like many good things, it comes to an end. Your pals scatter to the four winds. Some stop…

“I managed five full poker bridges before he figures out saying “Hey” isn’t going to stop me.”

Way cool. I was at the Galileo Museum in Florance Italy yesterday and they had a bunch of amazing, huge 1500-1700s globes. All made by hand, of course. They had info on goring, but just said the shell was made from paper, wood and papier-mâché. Would have been cool to see how that process was done. Some pics from…

You should all check out Cirkeln if you want a swedish YA book series about a bunch of witches trying to manage school and saving the world at the same time. Diskbänksfantasy at its finest! ...and the first book starts of with something that made me cry. Because I started to think of how I felt when I was a teen and…

the league of extraordinary gentlemen surely wasn´t a very good movie, but mr. hyde was brilliantly done and not cgi at all.

“They select?” They who? Do you even know how the Hugo nominees are picked?

but the Hugo voting pool is self selected- it’s always been Worldcon attendees/supporters, and anyone can go online and purchase a voting membership for that (in fact, that’s precisely what happened). Now, there’s a comment over at Wired that says that group skews older, but the idea that the voting pool is select is…

When you’re talking about peoples rights, yes there is always time to wait for rational thought.

(but they don’t really want a conversation, just a bunch of politically convenient laws that let them dictate the content of games).