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For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
We're all living in a chemical soup.
We're all living in a chemical soup.
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure read more
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify read more
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
