Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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In my Tech Tuesday posts I have covered main memory and storage (by the way, coming up tomorrow: HTTP). If you have read those or otherwise follow hardware, then you will find this short piece from BBC Technology News on a new technology known as ReRAM quite interesting. Essentially, ReRAM holds the promise of providing non-volatile storage at the speed of memory.
That would provide a major breakthrough for database applications. Not only is ReRAM even faster than the Flash memory used in the SSDs (which are currently replacing traditional disk drives for high end database applications) but it obviates the need for going to disk in the first place. That means the whole intermediate software layer that controls disk access falls away as well.
What is amazing is not just that this is possible at all, but also the history of this technology. ReRAM is based on something called a Memristor which was invented as a theoretical possibility in 1971 (much after the Transistor which was invented in 1947). Then it took until 2008 to build a Memristor. From that breakthrough by HP it seems that commercial products may be available as early as next year!
In my Tech Tuesday posts I have covered main memory and storage (by the way, coming up tomorrow: HTTP). If you have read those or otherwise follow hardware, then you will find this short piece from BBC Technology News on a new technology known as ReRAM quite interesting. Essentially, ReRAM holds the promise of providing non-volatile storage at the speed of memory.
That would provide a major breakthrough for database applications. Not only is ReRAM even faster than the Flash memory used in the SSDs (which are currently replacing traditional disk drives for high end database applications) but it obviates the need for going to disk in the first place. That means the whole intermediate software layer that controls disk access falls away as well.
What is amazing is not just that this is possible at all, but also the history of this technology. ReRAM is based on something called a Memristor which was invented as a theoretical possibility in 1971 (much after the Transistor which was invented in 1947). Then it took until 2008 to build a Memristor. From that breakthrough by HP it seems that commercial products may be available as early as next year!
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