{"id":26066,"date":"2016-04-25T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26066"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T12:47:06","slug":"how-fast-has-computing-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/25\/how-fast-has-computing-become\/","title":{"rendered":"How fast has computing become?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Atwood<\/a> has an excellent blog post<\/a>, about the increase in computing powers of the modern CPUs and GPUs and the affects of those on things around us. \u00a0In particular – games such as chess and Go, and password cracking.<\/p>\n

Every time you see a new video card release, don’t think “slightly nicer looking games” think “wow, hash cracking and AI just got 2\u00d7 faster \u2026 again!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fascinating read!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Atwood has an excellent blog post, about the increase in computing powers of the modern CPUs and GPUs and the affects of those on things around us. \u00a0In particular – games such as chess and Go, and password cracking. Every time you see a new video card release, don’t think “slightly nicer looking games” … Continue reading How fast has computing become?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How fast has computing become? #security #gaming #technology","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[3374,9,2955,200],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-hardware","tag-jeff-atwood","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15824,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/31\/jeff-atwood-on-parenthood\/","url_meta":{"origin":26066,"position":0},"title":"Jeff Atwood on parenthood","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame is expecting two more kids - twin baby girls. \u00a0When something like this - a baby or two on the way - happens, it doesn't go by unnoticed. \u00a0It consumes your whole mind and forces you to think and rethink everything. \u00a0Jeff is an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24543,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/06\/doing-terrible-things-to-your-code\/","url_meta":{"origin":26066,"position":1},"title":"Doing Terrible Things To Your Code","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 6, 2015","format":"quote","excerpt":"a good programmer knows they have to do terrible things to their code. 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