137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day
Programming Throwdown
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Atom Bomb Simulations - What's the Potential for Everything in Between?
There were lots of people wanting to dotheown adam bomb simulations and stuff on this machine. We turned it on, it was 13 times faster than any other machine in the world. There there's a whole class of problems that are solved in a similar way - everything from the weather to nuclear bombs. So by iterating over that thousands of times, they get a prediction of the weather. Same thing with an atom bomb simulation.
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