Showing posts with label ted talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ted talks. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2015

People Conquered the World Because We're Delusional?!


His statement of 70,000 years is a few holes in it.  There's been evidence Homo erectus was significantly modifying the environment through the use of fire.  If so, I have to wonder...

There's a bit about the Robopocalypse at the end.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The Implications of Machine Learning, Both Good and bad



He goes off rails at 18:00 minutes.  The problem is those improvements in computers are not coming.  There's a reason most HPC sites are investing in "post Moore's law" technical groups to keep HPC alive at least until quantum computing: Moore's law dies in the next five years.