Joshua Wright's Blog
September 16, 2020
Galactic Alchemy Discovered
There’s gold in them thar spinning supernovae with strong magnetic fields. Or something. Says this article about the origin of gold in the universe. I guess now we know where the Earth’s swimming-pool-amount of gold came from (it’s actually a few swimming pools).
February 12, 2020
Quantum Computing Masters Infiniti and is now God
I mean, that’s basically what this Vice article is saying.
March 13, 2019
J, use a quantum computer and go back in time to read our blog and find this post in order to…
…read this article. Then jump back to the here & now and explain said article to me after picking up the rotting pieces of your blown mind.
December 7, 2018
Qubits Will Lay Ruin to Legacy Cryptography
Of all the transcendent possibilities with quantum computing, the areas that will drive it ahead the most will be in the realm of breaking encryption (well, unless adult sites figures out how to harness qubits, then maybe it’ll be a tie). This stuff is so fascinating, and it feels as though America is really lagging here.
November 23, 2018
Tom Baker FTW
Pretty excited for the audiobook version of Tom Baker’s new Dr Who book (via Gizmodo).
PS – J, you still reading our blog?
March 28, 2018
Nvidia Excelling Thanks to Imaginary Money
Nvidia is stepping up production of GPUs because of crypto miners. This seems simultaneously wasteful and totally awesome in a cyberpunk sort of way.
Meanwhile, some analysts are claiming Nvidia and AMD are in trouble thanks to small, custom chips that are exclusively created to mine specific crypto currencies (Ether in this case). Is this bad? Sounds bad. But won’t “they” just turn around and create Ether 2 which requires new custom chips, and until those arrive, more generalized GPUs will...
February 1, 2018
Author Writes Gibberish, Computer Translates
Cool article from the Smithsonian about utilizing AI to decipher the language of a book from the 15th century of unknown origin.Check it out.
Note, experts are skeptical:
*howling in voynich language* pic.twitter.com/ObNXNpVTVy
— Damian Fleming (@FW_Medieval) January 30, 2018
May 2, 2017
AI Is Good At Math, Not Coups
Great article discussing why AI is not taking over any time soon.
https://backchannel.com/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai-59282b686c62
April 17, 2017
This Death Stranding Trailer Answers A Lot Of Questions
Such as, Does Hideo Kojima routinely drop acid? Yes, yes he does.
February 6, 2017
Virtual, On Demand BJ’s Are A Thing Now
Details here. My question is: how long until the hackers crack this thing and hold your junk hostage? I’m thinking not too long.
