There Are Days When I Need Stuff Like This

*Catching up with Rudy Rucker's blog.

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/

(…)

"Over the years, I've noticed that certain kinds of computations are inexhaustibly greedy, and that by dialing up certain of their parameters to values that seem not all that big, you can get a computation whose demands would overwhelm the physical world.

"So what kind of computation is C. H. Hinton doing? Well, I'm going to have him computing a series of 3D fractal shapes that are based on a 27th-power polynomial...