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The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
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The major processor manufacturers and architectures, from Intel and AMD to Sparc and PowerPC, have run out of room with most of their traditional approaches to boosting CPU performance. Instead of driving clock speeds and straight-line instruction throughput ever higher, they are instead turning en masse to hyperthreading and multicore architectures. Both of these features are already available on chips today; in particular, multicore is available on current PowerPC and Sparc IV processors, and is coming in 2005 from Intel and AMD. Indeed, the big theme of the 2004 In-Stat/MDR Fall P
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
a reference site to a collection of papers concerning the simulation argument
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
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It
may be possible for simulated civilizations to become posthuman. They may then
run their own ancestor-simulations on powerful computers they build in their simulated
universe. Such computers would be “virtual machines”, a familiar concept in computer
science. (Java script web-applets, for instance, run on a virtual machine – a
simulated computer – inside your desktop.) Virtual machines can be stacked: it’s
possible to simulate a machine simulating another machine, and so on, in arbitrarily
many steps of iteration. If we do go on to create our own ancestor-simulations,
this would be strong evidence against (1) and (2), and we would therefore have to conclude that we live
in a simulation. Moreover, we would have to suspect that the posthumans running
our simulation are themselves simulated beings; and their creators, in turn, may
also be simulated beings.Reality
may thus contain many levels.
YASMIN @ Media.UoA | Art-Science-Technology interactions around the Mediterranean Rim
YASMIN: moderated list for art-science-technology interactions around the Mediterranean Rim
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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Add Sticky Noteinformation is a kind of commodity, a utilitarian resource that can be mined and processed with industrial efficiency. The more pieces of information we can “access” and the faster we can extract their gist, the more productive we become as thinkers
- For those who still read books, this reminds me somewhat of Jean Baudrillard's 'The Ecstasy of Communication':
"Obscenity begins when there's no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparant, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication. We no longer partake of the drama of alienation, but are in the ecstasy of communication." - on 2008-07-21
- For those who still read books, this reminds me somewhat of Jean Baudrillard's 'The Ecstasy of Communication':
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
This article describes a new learning theory, connectivism, that's more adapted to the needs of our digital age.
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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network,
and complexity and self-organization theories. Learning is a process that
occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements –
not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as
actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization
or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets,
and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than
our current state of knowing
Video Game Aesthetics: the future
a report on current game industry's fetisch with visual realism
Light and Dark Visions:The Relationship of Cultural Theory to Art That Uses Emerging Technologies
"Critical theory and cultural studies are increasingly being used to understand the function of the arts in contemporary technology- dominated, postmodern culture. This essay examines the relevance of these analyses to the work of artists who use emerging
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