Virtually every device you use—from the one you're using to read this to the pocket calculator growing dust in the back of your desk—relies on the same basic technology: circuits containing many tiny transistors that communicate with each other using electrons. We've come a very long way since the room-sized computers of the 1950s, but … Continue reading The World’s First Photonic Neural Network Is Really Fast
DID THE OSCARS JUST PROVE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?
“La La Land” replaced by “Moonlight” as Best Picture, was weirdly like that of . . . Election Night. Last night’s Oscar bizarreness was not just bizarre but bizarre in a way that is typical of this entirely bizarre time. The rhythm of the yes-they-won-oh-my-God-no-they-didn’t event, with “La La Land” replaced by “Moonlight” as Best … Continue reading DID THE OSCARS JUST PROVE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION?