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Just read an interesting little article on graphene transistors. I’d never even heard of them before, apparently it’s the stuff that’s in your pencil. Anyway, with a bit of work you can make amazing transistors with it.
…electrons move through graphene with almost no resistance, generating little heat. What’s more, graphene is itself a [...]

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Once again Kurzweil has hit the mainstream media: this time an article on the BBC. It’s currently the “most emailed” article on the website, so it’s getting a good share of attention. Although he influenced me strongly many years ago, I’m not a big fan of his writings since 2000. In my [...]

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I just got back from the European Futurists conference in Lucerne. It was very educational, but not in the way I had expected. Let me explain.
As probably all of you know, there is this concept of a “technological singularity”. It has a few definitions, one is that it is a point in [...]

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I’ve got 7 months to go on my PhD here in Switzerland and so I’m rather busy — too busy to keep up with blogging for the moment. Currently I’m going through about 20 pages of hand written learning theory equations that Marcus Hutter derived. These are just raw equations with the occasional word [...]

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