[vorbis] New decode chip

[Shawn]

On 08/21, Ed Sweetman said something like:
> heh, this is literally years old.  I remember reading this before i
> started highschool in Discover magazine.  I still have the original
> actually and have a picture of the nifty device from way back when. 
> 
> http://signal-lost.homeip.net/images/fpga_large.jpg
> http://signal-lost.homeip.net/images/fpga_small.jpg
> 
> 
> It was pretty interesting and later work on the design resulted in a
> further understanding about just how much we dont know about physics and
> how "life" can exploit it. 
> 
> More constrictive experiments with evolution done by a group of japanese
> scientists would have more use with consumer technology because it
> forced the designs to work by accepted digital logic and not exploit the
> finer quantum qualities of reality that we dont understand yet.  :) I

Really, it was exploiting more mundane qualities like electromagnetic
behavior of the entire circuit etc. Maybe even the environment
surrounding the circuit.

This is one of the interesting things about the early experiment in my
opinion. It forced the experimenter to look outside the normal set of
parameters/variables to discover why this thing could do what it could
do. It opened minds to look at the entire /thing/ like an interopating
whole as an organism, so to speak. It demanded to be understood in terms
of all its parts, as well as non-traditional aspects of it like heat
and EM.

That thing made me think like a CPE major instead of the CS major I am.


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Shawn Leas
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