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Believe it or not there is a respectable number of scientists, physicists no less, who make a living doing nothing but bringing 80 year old Soviet Science to th
by monochr 12y ago
Believe it or not there is a respectable number of scientists, physicists no less, who make a living doing nothing but bringing 80 year old Soviet Science to the west.
Every so often they get the front pages of nature for essentially finding anti-gravity: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.html http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.h...
Or you find actually build computer architectures and languages which American theoretical computer scientists rediscovered 30 years later as the most efficient possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
- pinkyand 12y agoI have great appreciation for russian technology, but aren't those exaggeration ? If setun , the ternary computer was so efficient - how is ithat today we use binary machines(and that in general the russians didn't have a moore's law ) ?
- monochr 12y agoThe industrial spies in the West send back information that binary was used exclusively and the Soviet bureaucracy, like usual, decided that the West knows best and shut down that area of research. One thing people in the West don't understand is that the Soviet Union after Stalin believed it was a second rate power and acted like one. In many ways the Politburo was a US cheerleader, they only challenged the US tactically while strategically accepting most of the propaganda more uncritically than US dissidents.
- StuffMaster 12y agoOne of the many disadvantages of a closed state...