![]() ![]() “Fredkin praat over een interessant kenmerk van computerprogramma's, waaronder cellulaire automaten: er is geen kortere route mogelijk naar wat de uitkomst wordt. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology ![]() University of Oklahoma researchers stored 1,024 bits in the magnetic interactions of the protons of a single molecule containing nineteen hydrogen atoms.51 Thus, the state of the rock at any one moment represents at least 1027 bits of memory.” We’ve already shown that atoms can store information at a density of greater than one bit per atom, such as in computing systems built from nuclear magnetic-resonance devices. ![]() All of this activity represents computation, even if not very meaningfully organized. Despite the apparent solidity of the object, the atoms are all in motion, sharing electrons back and forth, changing particle spins, and generating rapidly moving electromagnetic fields. Although it may appear that nothing much is going on inside a rock, the approximately 1025 (ten trillion trillion) atoms in a kilogram of matter are actually extremely active. “How Smart Is a Rock? To appreciate the feasibility of computing with no energy and no heat, consider the computation that takes place in an ordinary rock. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hopefully the page preview will be working by then. That's great, because it pushes the book up the rankings. ![]() The presales are going even better than I thought. Release date on Amazon is on the 20th.Īsk me anything and I'll try to get to it as soon as possible. The book is ready for preorder on Amazon right now and soon on Google Play as well. I think it's fitting for such a forward-thinking novel to be revisited with modern technology so long after its initial release. This might be the first time in history a complete novel has ever been this fully illustrated, and certainly with artificial intelligence assisting the work. If you read this, you've read the whole book. It's 706 fully illustrated pages with all original art. Star Maker: The Visual Edition is the novel. So I decided to turn it into a graphic novel. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon is my favorite book, and I've been trying to get people to read it for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The impact of the Pilgrim’s plague was enormous. As a result, when English settlers came to New England in the early 17th century, they brought bacterial and viral diseases that wiped out more than 90 percent of the native population of New England. Because of their exposure to large-scale epidemics, and their regular contact with large mammals, many Europeans built up immunities to smallpox, influenza, and other illnesses. Most students know nothing about the diseases that English fishermen brought with them from Europe in the years leading up to 1620. The usual “story” about the English pilgrims is that they left England because of religious persecution, settled in Holland, followed by North America, where they befriended the Native Americans and celebrated Thanksgiving together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything is going to plan - they just have to avoid the chasm of emotions brought up when they inevitably come face to face.īut when they wake up in bed next to each other the following morning with Ezra’s grandmother’s diamond on Frankie’s finger, they have zero memory of how they got there - or about any of the events that transpired the night before. Frankie’s on the rise as a music manager for the hottest bands of the late ’90s, and Ezra’s ready to propose to his girlfriend after the wedding. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation , they vowed to never speak to each other again. They have just one New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out in this big-hearted and nostalgic rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. ![]() Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers - and no idea how they got there. ![]() ![]() This is Disney’s first version of this classic tale. ![]() And there is a prince that loves her no matter what. This story shows us a strong female character that struggles to overcome her destiny and forge her own path. Any direct order given to her she has to obey. The problem is that she was cursed with the “gift” of obedience. You know how Cinderella always seems to do everything she’s told and doesn’t seem to have any backbone in that original story? Well that’s not the way this Ella sees it. Need I say more? Everyone knows the story! ![]() This is the one with the fairy godmother and the glass slipper and the midnight clock. So let’s start with the one everyone knows. ![]() If it is of another culture I’ll put the country of origin next to the tale. This blog post will of course not be all inclusive, but I think I may be able to give you some idea of some different versions of this tale. Prince/Someone Cinderella wants to impress. ![]() Magical person that helps Cinderella achieve her goals in life. All of these share a few common elements. The one most of us Americans are familiar with is the French version of the tale, but almost every culture on earth has a similar tale. There are over 1500 versions of Cinderella worldwide and in 2000, the Guinness Book of world records reported that Cinderella was Hollywood’s favorite fairy tale. ![]() |