Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: The Matrix
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My Balm in Gilead
COVID-19 has disrupted our lives in so many ways – commerce and trade, personal livelihoods and economic vitality, family and social interactions, health and wellness (obviously), mobility and travel, and education, to name just a few. This global pandemic has also exposed deep social inequities in new ways, convolved with political disarray and often dysfunctional…
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Predicting Potentialities, Reifying Futures
Remember, the best way to predict the future is to create it.
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The Magic behind the Curtain: Hardware and Software
What really happens when one writes a loop or invokes a procedure? Computer architecture as the big reveal
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Schrödinger’s Gershwin
In a scene worthy of The Matrix, I felt time slow to a fractal crawl. In the Planck time separating what was and what could be, I considered the Hamiltonian and its myriad possibilities.