Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Hunter S. Thompson
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Who’s Doing Your Thinking (and Writing)?
N.B. This essay is about three interrelated topics: (a) the art and soul of human writing, (b) the ethics of intellectual delegation via AI, and (c) the mechanistic reality of intelligence. Many years ago, I sat in a university cabinet meeting as we debated some forgotten, but seemingly momentous issue. At some point during the…
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Come to the Supercomputing Big Data Edge
The brave new world of edge computing and big data has profound implications for the future of high-performance computing. Come to the edge!