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Contact me on Skype

February 19, 2011 — 3 Comments

Skype is my preferred method of communication these days. I use it more than the phone, more than email, more than real-life. If you need to get in touch with me, this is by far the fastest, most synchronous real-time way to do it. If you are on skype already great – just add me as a friend. If not, download the free app – they have it for windows, mac, iphone, ipad, android, etc.

My skype id is: ben.shoemate

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Base22 team hard at "work" on Base22 Day (the 22nd of every month at 2:22pm we do some team building, in this case a Rubix Cube competition).

In All Blog Posts, Web Design
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All the world’s computers equal to one human mind

February 16, 2011 — 18 Comments

The time may come when a computer will be able to out-compute a human, but not yet. According to a recent study, adding up all the computation power in every laptop, server, mainframe, cell phone, and digital processors of all kinds, everywhere on the planet will give you approximately the ability to handle approximately 6.4 x 10^18 operations a second. About the same as a human brain.

All the worlds storage – paper, film, hard-drives, etc. would give you same amount of storage as human DNA. In other words, somewhere around 2011 the planet has enough computing power to account for 1 extra person. The vast amount of “thinking” is still done by organic chemistry. Read the article I read on ARS Technica.

In All Blog Posts, Imagination, Science, Technology, The Future
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