Ask HN: What to do with an infinite computer

1 pointsirixusr8y ago4 comments

Hypothetical question:

If you had an infinite computer (infinite RAM, no lattency, infinite cores, and infinite clock) what would you do with it that you can't do today (for example, which NP problem would you do first?)

How do you defend against it? For example one time pad, stop using digital tools, etc

4 comments

lwlml8y ago

Wouldn't it be much more exciting to discuss actual physical limits of computation? Something like https://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/revcomp/physlim/ ?

itamarst8y ago

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irixusrOP8y ago

touche.

the question really is a generalization of "what research would I do if I had a few orders of magnitude more computer resources?"

Well how many orders of magnitude are we talking about [1]? What would the HN guys do? Why limit the question to 2 or 3 OofM?

[1] I'm license limited to my workstation despite having access to a cluster. So the orders of magnitude are within reach.

Piskvorrr8y ago

Pedantry: cats do ovulate. Not sure if it counts as "laying eggs", though.

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