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At 10:53 PM 8/26/2007, Eli wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Heard from a friend:
"I recall a comment from D-Wave Systems that a <br>
1974 era computer running 2007 algorithms would beat a modern computer
<br>
running 1974 algorithms." Topic was decryption /
factorization.<br><br>
I am looking for the original source of the D-Wave comment, or any <br>
reputable source for a statement similar to it (computer from year X
<br>
with new algorithm Y beats new computer from year Y with old algorithm
<br>
from X).</blockquote><br>
Mark Miller might be able to answer this.
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http://www.caplet.com/<br><br>
</a>Natasha<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">-- <br>
Eliezer S.
Yudkowsky
<a href="http://singinst.org/" eudora="autourl">http://singinst.org/</a>
<br>
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence<br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha</a>
<a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"> Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate,
<a href="http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/">Planetary
</a><a href="http://www.planetary-collegium.net/about/">Collegium</a>
<dd><i>Situated in the Faculty of Technology, School of Computing,
Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, England</i>
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
Culture</a>
<dd><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a><br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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