Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/22/24 6:20 AM, D wrote:

  On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

 It's a pity zeppelins proved so impractical - THOSE had
 a 'romance' and you COULD go for 'luxury'. Cruise ships
 are a step up, but maybe only one step.

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I have on my to do list to start a zeppelin airline between europe and new york. I just need to utilize synchronicity to bump into Richard Branson or other billionaire of choice first, and then we're off! =D

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 Oh, I'm sure it will happen ... 'visionaries' are
 magnetically attracted to each other !   :-)

 This is the truth!
 

 I wonder if different materials might make zeps safer ?
 Graphite rods, carbon-fiber supports, something that'll
 give more under stress than simple rigid aluminum ?
 Could go 'meta' ... INFLATABLE, ADAPTIVE, extra supports
 you can work pneumatically or whatever. Then the thing
 is more like a dolphin or whale, dynamically adaptable
 to stresses in the short timescale.

 I imagine that old kinds of scientific progress has been made since the days of
Zeppelin that positively alter the safety and economics and viability of
zeppelin flights. There's even a "far out" theory of vacuum zeppelins, that do
not use a gas but, a vacuum. I met a guy on a mailinglist who was going to do a
self-funded Ph.D. around that concept.
 

 Anyway, for now, expect all transportation to be Just
 Another Uber. We will have to wait for Musk to build
 a luxury Earth/Mars travel line.

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I'm following the career of Musk with great interest! I wonder if he will be the first trillionaire? I also wonder if he will eventually burn out or if something will happen to him since he's achieved so much in such a short time.

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 Like many with ultra IQ, he's a bit, umm, skittish.
 SO far he's holding up, but TOMORROW, well, who knows ?

 Yes.
 

 Some of these guys go off the deep end abruptly. I've
 only met ONE guy with about a 200 IQ who also had a
 solid personality. If you've seen US television, there
 are a lot of 'Sheldons' and only a few 'Paiges'.

 I've met a few people who I thought were _way_ more intelligent than I am. I
obviously did not test them, but they were the kind of people who did not really
have any use for math books at university. They just took down the axioms and
worked out how things work from there. Some of them also only needed to read
things once, and they were all set.
 I'd say it's 50/50 for those guys how mentally stable they are. One guy I liked,
went 2 times to the hospital during our studies for alcohol poisoning, and he
enjoyed having 15 degrees C in his room. He took a masters degree in IT
engineering, but found it boring and without challenges, so after a few years he
went back to school and took a masters degree in chemical engineering instead.
Haven't heard from him since, but I imagine he is holed up in a lab somewhere,
unless he took a third masters degree.
 Another guy, I call him "the crypto ninja" was morbidly paranoid, and tried to
cheat me in business, secure in the knowledge that he was so anonymous that I
could never find him. Luckily for me, he was not as smart as he thought when it
comes to hiding his tracks, so I was able to track him down. He was fascinating.
Within one slim area, he was very skilled and knowledgeable, but he thought that
this skill extended to other areas as well, so he was proven wrong by my wife in
legal matters, and by me in privacy matters. Hmm, on second thought, maybe he
wasn't that smart after all? ;)
 

 ANYWAY ... I have some doubts about him getting to Mars
 in any useful way - but his giant rocket CAN transport
 LOTS of stuff into orbit or to the moon.

 Rockets are boring! I was space elevators and shooting magnetically accelerated loads into space!

   And PRIME terrorist targets  :-)
   Back in the emergent PC days I knew a guy who wrote
   clones of Atari/Commodore/Nintendo games, mostly for
   the 6502. I watched him program, fast, in BINARY for
   the chip. Why waste time with ASM ? Said it gave him
   a buzz.
   He was NOT entirely 'stable'.
   There's an old movie called 'True Genius' - Val Kilmer
   I think - this guy was like the guru who lived inside
   the dorm walls.
   Another guy could just kinda 'see' the math, he said
   it was almost like a calculator display 'overlay'.
   Ever see that movie 'Lucy' ... I suspect it was kinda
   like the scene where she leaves the hospital and sees
   the whole transpiration process going on in a tree,
   but with all the exact numbers too.  An interesting
   view of 'next level'.
   Alas, human brains just aren't really wired for that.
   There tend to be 'trades' - and 'stability' is often
   one of them. 'Double-alpha' people, who have it all,
   are VERY VERY rare.
   BIRD brains ... there are some species that have
   spectacular IQ in their little nut-sized brains.
   The 'wiring' is a LOT better than in mammals.
   Might be the dinos were a LOT smarter than we like
   to believe ... lack of 'tech' does not = stupid.
   Could be it took 65 million years for Socrates to
   pick up where they left off   :-)