discontinuity.net

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

discontinuity.net is home to Davin Potts who has, at times, been associated with projects involving theoretical chemistry, distributed computing, numerical methods, high performance massively parallel computing, mathematical physics, number theory, and other forms of torture for really big computers. Not limited to these subjects, any and all content Davin finds vaguely interesting is game here.

Random daily discontinuity quote:

But what of those who do see the discontinuity? What do they counsel? There are, of course, the Luddites who, with Kirkpatrick Sales, would smash the computers. And there are the ultra-Schumpetarians who would welcome a lack of employment opportunity for the unknowledged...

[Ref: Quote from "The Brief Reign of the Knowledge Worker: Information Technology and Technological Unemployment" by Kit Sims Taylor of Bellevue Community College, ref http://distance-ed.bcc.ctc.edu/econ/kst/BriefReign/BRwebversion.htm ]

Davin M. Potts
davin-website@discontinuity.net