I think this is all short sighted. Computers and operations on computers are binary because that is our restriction. It is engrained in our minds as developers to see just a bunch of 0's and 1's. I think if we were able to see things not as boolean but as wildly different state it could open up new paradigms. I'm not saying I have these paradigms figured out but there are tons of smart people out there who could see applications of computing in non-binary.
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This show makes me so happy. I cannot wait for season 2. This show and Rick and Morty have gotten me excited about comedy again, when others were getting stale and old.
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This is why King of the Hill was so good. The first season was kind of strange until you realized that Mike Judge was trying as hard as possible to faithfully represent a family in a small, Texas community. The fact that he was so successful developed the best humor in the show. Silicon Valley is going in the same direction, and I love it.
Best line of the season was from Dinesh - "Every time I'm about to have sex, he (Gilfoy) is all up in there."
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Computers weren't originally all in binary. All modern computers are however, for very good reasons. It isn't as if designers are blind to some of the advantages of non-binary representation and have never examined it.
Yeah. The Jerk off science was funny clever but Jareds polling cracks me up every time I even think about it.
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I also like how you see Jared making hand motions in the foreground/background at different points in the scene.
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Fucking jerk off science. Never laughed so hard. Especially when Jared said they had been out there for 2 hours.
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They do use multi-bit symbols in modulation schemes like QAM for data transmission. Transistors are pretty hard to beat though since they can put 50 kabillion of them on a half inch square of silicon and that seems to double every couple years so I doubt that binary is going anywhere in the foreseeable future.
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Same here, I couldn't stop laughing. This show gradually won me over. It got better and better right up to the end. Looking forward to the second season.
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Christ, this show has some of the best jokes and it is just so damn painful to watch at the same time. Pretty much what Judge is best at.
And tenks, aren't you just talking about quantum computing? You're not just looking for on/off states, but you're adding contextual states as well. Not as sci-fi as it seems at first blush. There's been a puddle of goo sitting in a lab somewhere at MIT for the past 15 years that can occassionally add 1+1. It usually arrives at the correct answer, to boot!
And tenks, aren't you just talking about quantum computing? You're not just looking for on/off states, but you're adding contextual states as well. Not as sci-fi as it seems at first blush. There's been a puddle of goo sitting in a lab somewhere at MIT for the past 15 years that can occassionally add 1+1. It usually arrives at the correct answer, to boot!
I developed a quantum computer, but it is only correct when you don't read the answer.
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As funny as this show is, when he started presenting the compression stuff and getting his Weismann score I was genuinely feeling really happy and pumped for him. Like.. I knew it was a show.. but I thought it was great.
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I thought that was the worst part of the episode. The whole suspense thing and being like "Shit guys, sorry I let you down" and you knew damn well it was going to be some miracle level shit. It felt unneccessarily drawn out.
I laughed pretty hard at the beginning of the presentation when he was talking about how his friends had a debate about "data", and how many "data's" you could do whatever with at a time.
Has anyone heard if they're re-casting Peter Gregory or are they sticking with him constantly being away?
