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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING. "Instead of sitting idle, a SETI@home computer executes the SETI program, which crunches data from radio signals coming from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico. Individually, the computers are unimpressive — but collectively, they make up the world's most powerful distributed supercomputer." https://lnkd.in/dh6PrEg View in LinkedIn

NETWORKED POWER. "There's nothing new about networked computers concurrently solving complex tasks. The most famous and largest example of such distributed computing is the SETI@home project, where nearly 3 million owners of Internet-connected computers voluntarily execute the SETI program for the project (https://lnkd.in/dZsGdiR)." http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ View in LinkedIn

"GAME THEORY: Originally developed by the great mathematician John von Neumann and the economist Oscar Morgenstern, Game Theory explores the various outcomes when interactive, semi-autonomous agents engage in either cooperative and noncooperative behavior." https://lnkd.in/dBCZ5hh View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATION SALTATIONS. "Every major technological success in the public in the last 50 years—cars, phones, beepers, cell phones, Internet—has been about social connection. They all enhance our ability to connect in some way and are successful because they contribute to the symbiotic intelligence process." http://www.computerworld.com/article/2585443/it-management/symbiotic-intelligence.html View in LinkedIn

SPECTRAL RELATIONSHIPS. "Scientists have viewed evolution as a process of natural selection resulting from competition. But recently, some have argued that cooperation and symbiosis are really the dominant forces in nature." https://lnkd.in/duPhX2C View in LinkedIn

ODD ROOT CAUSES. "A bunch of people had disconnections at a certain location, I looked at area on google maps and street view. Found a morgue called them up, and asked what time they run the electric furnaces for burning bodies. Another fault was clustered around a military base on radio frequencies that were not military reserved." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

BACKROOM CHATTER by coders and hackers gives an insight into the real life problems associated with coding. View in LinkedIn

THE ODD AND THE WEIRD. "In troubleshooting, so many symptoms are discarded as they are illogical, but I've often had the really hard problems while at a large telco, and we get some very weird symptoms that lead to some odd root causes." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

DR THOMPSON'S OFFSPRING. "Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest-- with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output-- yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones. Furthermore, the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

DERIVATIVE KNOWLEDGE. "A scientist let a computer program a chip, using natural selection. The outcome was an extremely efficient chip, the inner workings of which were extremely difficult to understand." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn