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“But the reason they could do the famous papers was because they were getting the time on supercomputers,” Walker said. “Other people who had great ideas never got the time and couldn’t make their impact. It wasn’t how good your science was, but it was whether you could get access to computing time.” It was a catch-22: the only way to get supercomp
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The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.
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It was a process of accretion, not the linear solving of one problem after another.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The means by which communication is obviated are division of labor and specialization of function.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
Truly intelligent and flexible systems are likely to be full of complexity,
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
He concludes that there is a common function, a common algorithm, that is performed by all the cortical regions.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
it is only a matter of a few years, soon after the turn of the millennium, until bandwidth becomes sufficiently capacious to make technically possible the “metaverse,” the alternative, cyberspace world imagined by the science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
crunching the mathematics that would make sense of the mess of links
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