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I think the effort in the testing of the thousands of drugs was to help create the AI model. Then they used that model and it seems to have identified a promising antibiotic. The next time they go through the process they would not need to train the model again right? So get another big list of chemicals and run them through the model.
This is a fun project, and I respect implementing anything birthed from XKCD, but I agree and don't think I'd use this sort of thing to generate my passwords. ( Or I'll just stick to Password123 )
Proposal on how to utilize crypto to do some good.
That was it! Thanks.
Yes! Thanks!
That is a brilliant demo. I get the impression we could scale that out to many dimensions and the quantum computing would be really fast. Could you give some indication of the time to run and cost to run on a quantum computer as of now and the rate of change on those? I would like to have a feel of when this would be both possible and economic. I.E. How big is my problem to give Entropica Labs a call?
This is a brilliant idea. I really like the idea of bringing modelling into everyday thinking. I do not understand the idea of hiding the hard stuff. Why can't I have access to and change the code underlying the model too? Rich Hickey talked about code as a violin for the master or a one button instrument for the beginner. Perhaps we could have both?
Unfortunate that academics have reasonable solutions (or at least something reasonable to try) to many of the troubles we are encountering but we are unable to hear and internalize them. This poor guy has been singing this song for a long time. http://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/pwg/
I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. I have used this metaphor of code as a living entity before and it resonates with those that have lived through such growth. The article beautifully articulates this idea. I think this idea extends to ideas or memes in the https://edge.org/conversation/richard_dawkins-this-is-my-vis... dawkins view of battling evolving concepts. The code swarm is a visualization of a one such concept. I think in the enterprise world I see this lots with business process but there is no concept of even writing the business process down let alone visualizing the process over time and the idea of culturing a business process is not even on the radar.
Crazy thoughts for today.
Do the same thing you did for the Gittorrent. A GUI client that runs a torrent of a php file that connects to a torrent of a database file. You just need to always be connecting to the latest and greatest.
It seems to me Musk was attempting to get the people who should be pushing bold new ideas to do so. The Hyperloop idea might have been premature but it certainly engaged people in discussing radical new ideas rather than discussing minor tweaks to an existing concept. That general thought is imbued in the culture of the companies he is involved with.
I thought so too but when I actually tried using "the language" it was more like using an application (excel?). For example there are no sockets. You can't create a hello world protocol. I was disappointed.
Wow this is really smart. Even in mundane enterprise applications the concept of the Player Model is important. In domain design we often speak of ubiquitous language between developers and business folks for the creation of our application. But we do not discuss how or application layers and builds the player model in a player of our system. Perhaps it is like a story, the player learning the model we have bit by bit, each player picking up the story where they left off.
He sounds quite bright. It seems he (and his people) are actually making a dent and are producing some tangible value. He said he could have gone to work for Wall Street. Does Wall Street actually attract our best and brightest people? I wonder what the world would look like if the best and brightest did not put all their talents into skimming value off the top (on Wall Street) but instead actually produced value.
I am also really curious about these points and would like to hear what Chris has to say about them.