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Falsch ist, arbeitslosigkeit der automatisierung zuzuschreiben
No full textGespräch u Mit Paul Cockshott. Über das Verhältnis von Physik und Ökonomie, den tendenziellen Fall der Profitrate, Marktideologie und sozialistische Planungssystem
Extending handivote to handle digital economic decisions
Get PDFThere is a growing realisation that the populace need to be consulted on a more regular basis about issues that concern them. We address a particular economic problem, that of national budgeting, and show how digital technology can be applied in an understandable way in this domain. The current situation is that governments are reluctant to conduct plebiscites due to the expenses inherent in the traditional voting model. Handivote is a system which allows maximal participation, using a ubiquitous input mechanism, the mobile phone, to support decision-making. In this paper we show how the Handivote system could be extended to invite voter input into national economic decisions. Our proposal includes an algorithm which maximises voter satisfaction in the presence of budgetary constraints, and the preferences revealed by the vote
Arbete och termodynamik
No full textArbetsvärdeläran hör till de mer omtvistade delarna i den marxistiska ekonomin. Men har ni läst Machover, Farjoun och Yakovenko? Med termodynamiskt stöd visar de att den stämmer, förklarar den brittiske ekonomen Paul Cockshott
Non-classical computing: feasible versus infeasible
Get PDFPhysics sets certain limits on what is and is not computable. These limits are very far from having been reached by current technologies. Whilst proposals for hypercomputation are almost certainly infeasible, there are a number of non classical approaches that do hold considerable promise. There are a range of possible architectures that could be implemented on silicon that are distinctly different from the von Neumann model. Beyond this, quantum simulators, which are the quantum equivalent of analogue computers, may be constructable in the near future
Are there new models of computation? Reply to Wegner and Eberbach
Get PDFWegner and Eberbach[Weg04b] have argued that there are fundamental limitations
to Turing Machines as a foundation of computability and that these can be overcome
by so-called superTuring models such as interaction machines, the [pi]calculus and the
$-calculus. In this paper we contest Weger and Eberbach claims
The SCC and the SICSA multi-core challenge
Get PDFTwo phases of the SICSA Multi-core Challenge have
gone past. The first challenge was to produce concordances of
books for sequences of words up to length N; and the second
to simulate the motion of N celestial bodies under gravity. We
took both challenges on the SCC, using C and the Linux Shell.
This paper is an account of the experiences gained. It also gives
a shorter account of the performance of other systems on the
same set of problems, as they provide benchmarks against which
the SCC performance can be compared with
Comments on the 'China model'
Get PDFThis paper reviews the articles by Pan and by Zhu on the China Model. The review of Pan is critical, that of Zhu sympathetic. Pan is criticised for taking an unquestioning attitude towards state supporting ideologies and failing to adequately account for the effects of changes in family structure and class structure in China over the past 50 years. The reviewer broadly agrees with Zhu's comments about a future steady state economy. The article provides statistical data from the recent economic and demographic histories of China and Japan to back up the general conclusions drawn by Zhu
A compiler extension for parallelizing arrays automatically on the cell heterogeneous processor
Get PDFThis paper describes the approaches taken to extend an array
programming language compiler using a Virtual SIMD Machine (VSM)
model for parallelizing array operations on Cell Broadband Engine heterogeneous
machine. This development is part of ongoing work at the
University of Glasgow for developing array compilers that are beneficial
for applications in many areas such as graphics, multimedia, image processing
and scientific computation. Our extended compiler, which is built
upon the VSM interface, eases the parallelization processes by allowing
automatic parallelisation without the need for any annotations or process
directives. The preliminary results demonstrate significant improvement
especially on data-intensive applications
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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