Three Dimensional Time challenges conventional thinking about Time. This is one of the newest YAToE's (Yet Another Theory of Everything) called Existics postulated by Gavin Wince. He has a whole lot more vids on this subject if you're interested (although there's plenty of criticism of his ideas too).
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
SQLFast-RT - An Ultrafast Search Engine for MultiDimensional Analysis of Massive Record Data
Anderson Digital Pty Ltd proudly announces public availability of SQLFast-RT – a search engine for performing Extraction and Transformation phase filtering of the ETL process on massive metadata, Big Data, or similar databases for multi-dimensional cube analysis to seven or more simultaneous dimensions.
The SQLFast-RT technique was devised in 2001 by Director Marcus Anderson. Using an Intel i586 Quad processor with 4Gb memory – or a standard desktop PC by today’s standards – this hardware configuration performed the extraction and transformation of records from 40GB of doubly compressed tape data each week in less than 1 hour. Today’s High Performance Computing centres can expect Real Time ETL capability from SQLFast-RT.
Depending on RAM and search string sizes typically only 2Gb of main memory is required for up to 7 dimension analytic cubes. This opens up the possibility today of real-time ETL on TCR’s using massively parallel blade based computing centres.
SQLFast-RT is particularly useful in Commercial, Forensic, Military, and Authorised Surveillance applications where legitimate access to metadata records is available but massive data sizes prevent useful analysis.
SQLFast-RT can also be adapted for high speed MDAC applications that involve Big Data or massive volumes of data, even, we claim, as voluminous as the phenomenal amounts of data accumulated by the The Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Interested? Please contact Marcus Anderson
The SQLFast-RT technique was devised in 2001 by Director Marcus Anderson. Using an Intel i586 Quad processor with 4Gb memory – or a standard desktop PC by today’s standards – this hardware configuration performed the extraction and transformation of records from 40GB of doubly compressed tape data each week in less than 1 hour. Today’s High Performance Computing centres can expect Real Time ETL capability from SQLFast-RT.
Depending on RAM and search string sizes typically only 2Gb of main memory is required for up to 7 dimension analytic cubes. This opens up the possibility today of real-time ETL on TCR’s using massively parallel blade based computing centres.
The SQLFast-RT algorithm is invulnerable to the number of search keys, making it the ideal solution for pattern matching applications that need to be search key agnostic. Whether it be 50 search keys or 50,000 search keys, SQLFast-RT will complete in the same amount of time. This capability is unheard of in typical search algorithms and Anderson Digital is not aware of any other provider of this capability.SQLFast-RT is a highly optimised SQL syntax based search engine to compress its binary searches down to only a few machine cycles for each record, regardless of the search key or the number of search keys.
SQLFast-RT is particularly useful in Commercial, Forensic, Military, and Authorised Surveillance applications where legitimate access to metadata records is available but massive data sizes prevent useful analysis.
SQLFast-RT can also be adapted for high speed MDAC applications that involve Big Data or massive volumes of data, even, we claim, as voluminous as the phenomenal amounts of data accumulated by the The Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Interested? Please contact Marcus Anderson
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Thursday, January 02, 2014
Why Blogger?
After some initial difficulties with an out of date Template, I'm feeling happier about moving back to Blogger. Its getting close to a decade since I started my first Blogger account, but back then it lacked a couple of features that made Joomla (aka Mambo) a better option at the time.
While Joomla is still a terrific free CMS script, it is more for enterprise environments than personal webs. Wordpress however is about the right size for everyone, so I started building my new site with Wordpress. In fact its here at http://marcusanderson.com.au, but when I looked again at my old Blogger site I realised it was smarter (for quite a few reasons) to use Blogger as a feedback forum rather than spend time integrating the add-on for Wordpress. So my old Blog from 2005 has been recycled, and you're looking at it.
While Joomla is still a terrific free CMS script, it is more for enterprise environments than personal webs. Wordpress however is about the right size for everyone, so I started building my new site with Wordpress. In fact its here at http://marcusanderson.com.au, but when I looked again at my old Blogger site I realised it was smarter (for quite a few reasons) to use Blogger as a feedback forum rather than spend time integrating the add-on for Wordpress. So my old Blog from 2005 has been recycled, and you're looking at it.
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Do You Know What Time It Is?
[NB: This has been moved from my old site]
Its 31 May (2012) and I’m almost out of time for my May post.
Its therefore timely to talk about the 2008 BBC Horizon documentary “Do You Know What Time It Is” that has been aired locally recently, presented by particle physicist Brian Cox. While I accept Cox tries to make a difficult topic intelligible, his treatment of Time goes too much into the world of science fantasy.
Cox talks about Time in the quantum physical world, which is all very well, but the point I let go is when he talks about “bending” space and time, a popular theme in quantum mechanics, relativity and gravitational effects on light, but which is taken too literally.
For me, Time is really an artefact of human memory. Time doesn’t exist in the physical world. Its a metaphysical concept first invented by primitive man to understand movement, fundamentally the regular (apparent) movement of sun and moon around the earth, seasons, tides, and human ageing. We have evolved Time as a scientific concept to describe something that really only exists in our minds. Because we have memory of “past” we use our mind to project predictions into the “future”. We use these flawed facets of the Time dimension to understand motion, and it works well to a point. But Time fails us in the relativistic/quantum world. So we try to redefine it without first understanding what we actually mean by Time.
Dont get me wrong, I’m not saying conventional Time is a waste of time. However, another approach to Time is the Australian Aborigines understanding in the context of the “ever present now”. There is no past, no future, just “now”. This is their “Dreamtime” model of Time. In Western Philosophy its known as “Presentism”. This idea also exists in computing. Conventional “Real Time” computing is inadequate for some engineering applications, so a time agnostic approach has evolved called “Data Flow”.
In this paradigm, processes are not activated in a chronological sequence, but only when predefined prerequisite conditions are met.
These two different models of Time (or execution sequencing) are in some ways analogous to the rectangular (x,y,z) versus spherical (a,r,r) co-ordinate models of 3D space. The are just different models of the same reality.
All this reminds me of a scene out of The Matrix. To paraphrase: Then you’ll see, that it is not space time that bends, it is only yourself.
Its 31 May (2012) and I’m almost out of time for my May post.
Its therefore timely to talk about the 2008 BBC Horizon documentary “Do You Know What Time It Is” that has been aired locally recently, presented by particle physicist Brian Cox. While I accept Cox tries to make a difficult topic intelligible, his treatment of Time goes too much into the world of science fantasy. Cox talks about Time in the quantum physical world, which is all very well, but the point I let go is when he talks about “bending” space and time, a popular theme in quantum mechanics, relativity and gravitational effects on light, but which is taken too literally.
For me, Time is really an artefact of human memory. Time doesn’t exist in the physical world. Its a metaphysical concept first invented by primitive man to understand movement, fundamentally the regular (apparent) movement of sun and moon around the earth, seasons, tides, and human ageing. We have evolved Time as a scientific concept to describe something that really only exists in our minds. Because we have memory of “past” we use our mind to project predictions into the “future”. We use these flawed facets of the Time dimension to understand motion, and it works well to a point. But Time fails us in the relativistic/quantum world. So we try to redefine it without first understanding what we actually mean by Time.In this paradigm, processes are not activated in a chronological sequence, but only when predefined prerequisite conditions are met.
These two different models of Time (or execution sequencing) are in some ways analogous to the rectangular (x,y,z) versus spherical (a,r,r) co-ordinate models of 3D space. The are just different models of the same reality.
All this reminds me of a scene out of The Matrix. To paraphrase: Then you’ll see, that it is not space time that bends, it is only yourself.
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