Berto Jongman: Washington Post Discovers Deep Web — and the World Bank’s Unindexed PDFs — PBI Technical Team Comments

Only fifteen years after Abe Lederman said the same thing at OSS! The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that nobody reads What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever …

Yoda: Exascale by 2020? No Way, Jose! Four Socko Graphics and Bottom Line Upfront — Human Brain Still a Million Times More Power Efficient

Mind-shift, must have. Supercomputing director bets $2,000 that we won’t have exascale computing by 2020 Joel Hruska ExtremeTech, 17 May 2013 Over the past year, we’ve covered a number of the challenges facing the supercomputing industry in its efforts to hit exascale compute levels by the end of the decade. The problem has been widely …

BUCKY 2.0: Y Worlds – Six Documents, 2 Graphics

Y Worlds is an exploratory initiative, in the Buckminster Fuller tradition, led by Alan Yelsey, co-creator of Machine Dreams and Lumi Mobile. Visual Y Visual Y is our system of knowledge visualization. Visual Y consists of: a systemic computer based hardware and software architecture capable of running large scale, interactive, real time, generative modeling worlds …

Berto Jongman: Industrial Toxins — and Wireless — Frying the Human Brain

Two stories, same victim — humans. Six Neurotoxic Industrial Chemicals Linked to Rise In Brain Disorders “…children worldwide are being exposed to unrecognised toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting behaviours, truncating future achievements, and damaging societies…” Read full article. INVISIBLE THREAT: Wireless Radiation Linked to Cancer and other Illness The longtime president of …