science beyond fiction, 21 - 23.04, praha. with albert-lászló barabási

social networks, cloud computing, multimedia services or search - igual - one has to keep in mind its all about infrastructure. the important questions, according to francois bourdoncle, exalead, for this services are: can i scale? what does the solution cost me? cost of revenue?

bourdoncle further argues that cost of revenues is google's largest asset, together with its brand | ict, 26. november 2008, lyon.

facebook • 13,000 machines in their datacenter • 50,000 machines next year • $1M/month for electricity • $500k/month for network bandwidth • 2TB/day of data (mostly photos) • Add one huge storage system every week • $80M/year for their staff (800) • Burning cash quickly ($516M raised to date) | data according to bourdoncle

twitter is/was known for being down, so no wonder they are in need of money

turing's early and rejected paper about learning and the mind. some say it was darwin's grandson, who didn't like what he read and who rejected the paper: but was it intelligent machinery, a heretical theory? yet at the turing archive they say it was a lecture given 1951.

in this posthumous essay, turing contends that it may be possible to construct a machine in which there would be an element of randomness and an analogue of the pleasure principle of psychology, that could be taught, and that could eventually be more intelligent than humans.

one may pick computing machinery and intelligence, 1950 (well, at that time darwin's grandson wasn't any longer director at npl). others may also choose intelligent machinery, listend under "unpublished manuscripts and drafts", no dates given ...

asked one of the rumour chaps for clarification. let's see ...