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Authored by: Tolerance on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 05:01 PM EST |
Your high school teacher might have been one of Feynman's
'computers', persons he organized with a whole bunch of IBM
/ Marchant calculating machines to work on the implosion
physics of Fat Man. These involved solving a series of
linked differential equations to simulate the shock wave
from shaped charges. The combined wave front had to merge to
a sphere at the surface of the critical core. Each
calculation stream affected its "neighbours" in the same was
as books of logarithms used to be done. In one of his books
he mentions how the progress of each calculation stream was
marked by tags of different colours. When a mistake was
identified they would go back to all the calculations
identified by the corresponding tag, and redo them. Feynman
walked in on them once while in the middle of such an error
recovery. "Oh no! It's the boss!" They bundled him out the
door and told him not to come back till they'd cleaned up.
Moral: unlike current silicon computers, human ones talk
back at you and give you lip. Watch what happens to
patentable computing then when the artificial minds do the
same.
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