Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Flint Hills Digital Campus

 I have very mixed emotions regarding the gigawatt 1000 acre hyper scale data center being proposed for Emporia. On the one hand I always want larger computers. On the other hand the power and water demands are so high that I can't help but think that they are doing it wrong.

Data centers in space are not a viable alternative at the moment. They would have to come down in price by an order of magnitude in order to be competitive.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

A.s.a. H. hardware upgrade

Although A.s.a. H. robots may make use of cameras* I have done very little original work on computer vision, there are so many other researchers doing that. But I have now upgraded my capability a bit with the addition of a Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano.

* for example see the concept structure in my 4 September 2024 blog  

Monday, June 1, 2026

Specialists

My A.s.a. H. A.I.s are specialists* and so am I. So there are some things that my A.I.s are more expert at than I am** and there are some things that I am better at than some of my A.I.s.***

* As one means of coping with complexity. 

** Pocket calculators have long been better and faster at arithmetic than I am.

*** I am more physically coordinated than some of my A.s.a. H. mobile robots. (but not some surgical robot)