Archive for August, 2008

Mythbusters Being Awesome Again

Friday, August 29th, 2008

I just ran across this:

Pure awesome.

They aren’t lying about GPU impressiveness either. One example I saw recently: apparently NVIDIA GPUs are kicking butt at Folding@Home.

I wish my graphics card was fancy enough for me to play with this GPU programming stuff. I’d really like to see how well I could pull off a voxel renderer. One day I’ll upgrade past AGPx4.

I want one

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Of Television-Induced Stupor and the Social Revolution

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I found a nifty talk by Clay Shirky about how TV is bad and should die a painful death.  Okay, not really, he’s just saying we’ll move on to media that encourages interaction, like Wikipedia.

Check it out over at ClusterFlock.

I especially like where he breaks down the quantity of wasted man-hours of thought spent watching TV.

I wonder how we could more efficiently utilize this vast reserve of distributed brain power.  I’m sure Google will come up with something for it.