Juan Orbea

Wherefrom Moore’s Law

Anti-rivalrous – those set of things in which, if I have it, you can also get a completely functional copy of it without me losing it + the more people that have it, the more valuable it becomes.

This mathematical pattern is a power law known as Zipf’s Law.

He further speaks of the intersection of the universal themes of mythology and Christianity and Christianity's future. History is a test of mankind, says Rene Girard, and mankind is failing that test.

If we view the exponential growth of computation in its proper perspective as one example of the pervasiveness of the exponential growth of information based technology, that is, as one example of many of the law of accelerating returns, then we can confidently predict its continuation. In the accompanying sidebar, I include a simplified... See more

The author never met anybody who would trade our social order for theirs, who wants to go back to that old Princeton world. And yet ... and yet there are disturbing ghosts around the campus. The old order haunts this one, and whispers that maybe something was lost as well as gained when we sacrificed all for the sake of high achievement, safety,... See more

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs): In MSRs, molten salt (e.g., fluoride, chloride) contains the nuclear fuel (i.e., uranium). The molten salt also acts as the coolant, and graphite rods act as the moderator. Replacing water as the coolant removes the possibility of steam explosions and the generation of flammable hydrogen gas. The nuclear reactions in... See more