Professional cruncher of 'impossible' problems. Philosopher. Scientist. Adventurer. Programming Working Simulator Programs on Mainframe Computers at 9 yrs old | First tech start-up at 16 yrs old | Wrote first OS at 17 yrs old | Grad school at 20 yrs old | Still learning more accelerating rapidly!
Friday, 27 July 2012
When pigs fly . . .
Friday, 29 June 2012
—And He Built a Crooked House
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
A generalized Von Neumann universal constructor?
Following on Rapidly from my post on 3D printing I noticed the RepRap which claims "RepRap is humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine."
Of course this isn't really a Von Neumann universal constructor as a human would be directing the cutting processes and then assembling the parts with non-autonomous "self-replication" but in a limited environment these are still pretty interesting.
One of the most significant technological advances of the last 10 years.
The products site says that it
"Easily and accurately create and embellish a wide range of projects by producing 3D shapes, reliefs, textures and patterns from modeling wax, foam, balsa wood and plastic materials. With a milling area of 3.39 inches wide by 2.17 inches in length and 1.02 inches in height, iModela is the perfect tool for small-scale creative projects. iModela Creator design software is included."
Its going to be of limited use until the CAD/CAM software is better and you can flash materials over to something more durable, but I think these types of devices have great potential for leading a whole new wave of creativity "outside the box".

See the manufacturers site
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Earth at night seen from the ISS. Includes amazing Aurora Borealis shots.
Earth Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011 at an altitude of around 350 km.
Monday, 13 February 2012
Three cheers for AB (Anand Babu) and Gluster
Went to a great talk by Anand Babu (known as AB) at the TiE Silicon Valley on Tuesday. AB co-founded Gluster and as well as that seeming like a very neat way to solve some of the strategic big data issues that I can see for AdTotum on the horizon and to make my life much easier with some 'massively big data' AI projects that I've had up my sleeve for a while, AB brought up some great ideas on how to robustly structure new super-high performance technologies. His example of how the compression in Gluster is coded fit in exactly with what I've been trying to achieve with the AdTotum API and indeed all the code that I think has any extended lifetime. Of course this might mean that I should be thinking of moving from Ubuntu to Red Hat.
Very good insights into solving problems by design and about how so called experts - who gain their expertise by experience rather than by deep understanding, often have insurmountable barrier to what they can do due to being locked in to existing wisdom.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
'Logos' - a new on-line newspaper
The Paper Logos is currently curated to find the latest findings on Health, Environment, Science and Technology - but aimed at key fundamentals and with a far reaching twist - so there won't be much on the latest iPhone - but quite a lot on developments in nuclear fusion, telomere structure. Less about Al Gore or Brian Cox and more about Younger Dryas and the Orion–Cygnus Arm. I think either you get why this is or you think very carefully about it and you'll see just why. In any case please leave any feedback with me here on what you think and how it might be improved.
Sunday, 1 January 2012
What to do if your Apple crashes or you have problems with your Blackberry freezing [Highly recommended]