Book was published in 1954. I hadn’t heard of it previously. Based on the video blurb, the longwinded but interesting article “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander might also be of interest. The video is 12 minutes long, I guess not too bad, but I’m still not up for watching it. Here’s a longer version of the blurb, I guess:
https://www.philosopheasy.com/p/jacques-elluls-the-technological
I’ve never used Discord – is it similar to Mumble? I tried Jami but found it too unreliable to recommend. What about Nextcloud Chat? I do use that though it is kind of clumsy.
https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ argues the opposite (“if anyone builds it, everyone dies”). It’s not out yet though.
If you mean those find-me gizmos, they are bluetooth, not NFC.
Too janky, too much JS crap on the website, appears to be closed source, no obvious self hosting option, meh. No I couldn’t imagine using or recommending it. Sorry.
Cool, yeah, the digits themselves are at most 0.5 byte each ;). I don’t know enough about the higher level algorithm to say exactly how the rest of the storage is being used. There is a book called “Pi and the AGM” about pi computation and similar algorithms that is supposed to be really good, but it looks over my head mathematically.
Yes, that’s the idea, it’s just that the “spoiler” likely only revealed something that was already known (that specific digit), or at any rate, something that could be computed on a much smaller computer and in less time. Mostly though, that’s a bit of mathematically interesting info.
I don’t feel like watching a video but maybe there will be a more informative article sometime. I wonder if they used some existing software like Y-cruncher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-cruncher
Says they used a cluster with 2.2PB of flash drives (that was Kioxia’s contribution) and the calculation took 7.5 months. Article is otherwise sort of useless. I’d like to know more technical and mathematical details. It gives the “spoiler” that the 300 trillionth digit of pi is 5, but that was already relatively easy to compute using the Borwein-Bailey-Plouffe algorithm and was probably already known. The BBP algorithm lets you compute a specific digit like the 300 trillionth, using fairly little memory and much less compute time than computing all of the digits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe_formula
Well ackshually…
Worth mentioning, this book was written in 1954. Full text is online, find by web search.