Random links
- The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything
- The story has an interesting figure to go along with it's analysis, looking at efficiency improvements since the 1940s. ”... the power needed to perform a task requiring a fixed number of computations will continue to fall by half every 1.5 years (or a factor of 100 every decade). … In 1985, the physicist Richard Feynman calculated that the energy efficiency of computers could improve over then-current levels by a factor of at least a hundred billion (1011), and our data indicate that the efficiency of computing devices progressed by only about a factor of 40,000 from 1985 to 2009. In other words, we've hardly begun to tap the full potential.”
- Dating After Divorce In a City of Sluts
- A Huffington Post piece by a woman who's a bit depressed about how she finds New York City to favor hookups and shallow relationships over long term commitments. Of course, she doesn't tell the story as to why "I left my husband" - i.e. is she now to some extent regretting not living up to her own ideals (despite never saying anything about this in the article).
- State set to grapple again with question: How to encourage more private-sector power generation?
- "'The ERCOT market requires the developer to believe in the possibility of price spikes,' said Barbara Clemenhagen, vice president with Topaz Power Group . 'However, it is difficult to get banks to finance 'possibility.'"
- Incomes increased faster for rich households than for poor ones in many advanced countries over the past 25 years
- Kind of fascinating. The list of countries on the verge of collapse seems roughly the same as though in which the poor increased incomes faster than the rich. The image is part of this article.
