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3D printing? Drones - flying and driving? Robotics? CERN? Always on, location-aware connectivity? Quantum Computing? Automatic speech and text translation? Amaz
by hessenwolf 13y ago
3D printing? Drones - flying and driving? Robotics? CERN? Always on, location-aware connectivity? Quantum Computing? Automatic speech and text translation? Amazon-scale logistics calculations? Recommendation engines?
How are we not in a goldener age of discovery now?
- foobarian 13y agoI appreciate your positive outlook :-) There is no doubt a great deal of technical advancement under way today, but it seems mostly applied, incremental work. Perhaps we're nearing the end of a Kuhn-like cycle of scientific advancement and some kind of breakthrough will kick things off again.
- hessenwolf 13y agoHow is automating driving incremental? Quantum computing? jAs a sometimes-Bayesian statistician - do you know the torment I will be able to unleash on the scientific world once MCMC inference is practically for free? Just imagine... spending all your time carefully choosing distributions for your data and uncertainty, and the implementation of the inference is an afterthought? I need a moment alone.