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> Meanwhile, maybe we get smarter and live longer. The calculations involved with many areas of modern science have already outpaced what we can do by hand, but
by bordercases 7y ago
> Meanwhile, maybe we get smarter and live longer. The calculations involved with many areas of modern science have already outpaced what we can do by hand, but we invented computers, so I can take the mean of a zillion numbers without much effort and spend my time elsewhere.
With software being as slow as it is despite massive speedups, and even despite despite massive speedups, we really are still not good enough at using our computers to their fullest capacity which still means getting insights into complexity before crunching the numbers.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoComputation is not slow. Operating systems might be slow. Applications might be slow. SaaS might be slow. But computation is not slow, and if you care about speed, you do computation in a context where the aforementioned issues are not issues.
- bordercases 7y agoNegate the operating environments that calculations are made in and the operating environments are not an issue, alright. There definitely is a lot of bloat in the software world, but even large bioninformatics organizations have their own data-pipeline management teams to keep these issues in spec.