Comments on: Episode 88: The Singularity Research OS with Galen Hunt http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/ The Podcast for Professional Software Developers Tue, 14 May 2013 01:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard Walker http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-72 Richard Walker Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-72 You missed your chance to ask your guest why Microsoft chose to hitch its wagon to the neo-AI-term “Singularity.” And, not a single mention of Ray Kurzweil.

As I get old, I grow tired of re-definitions of existing terms and creations of new terms where existing ones suffice, esp. to create a false impression of originality in the minds of the uninitiated.

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]]> By: Markus http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-73 Markus Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-73 I agree, I could have asked about the history of the name.

However, I don’t think Kurzweil is the first to use the term “singularity” (I am aware of his stuff!). I would guess physicists have used it before to describe the state of the universe right at the big bang.

As a side note, if you google the term, the MS project shows up before Kurzweil’s Homepage :-)

]]> By: Markus http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-74 Markus Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-74 See here for details:
http://www.codeplex.com/singularity

Markus

]]> By: Ollie http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-75 Ollie Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-75 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/104548

]]> By: pknotz http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-77 pknotz Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-77 This was a really nice episode. It really ties together a lot of the topics that you’ve covered in an interesting way.

By the way, Kurzweil has no ownership rights to “singularity”… I think the mathematicians have precedence there (e.g., 1/x has a singularity at x=0).

]]> By: Pete F http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-78 Pete F Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-78 Singularity seems an odd name for an OS that contrives to prevent things coalescing.

Listening to this episode (and to the one about components) brings to mind objects being held in a kind of suspension.

Fascinating though -and make me wonder what roadblocks Sun has hit doing something similar. I downloaded JNode the other day just for the fun of seeing it boot up -but is is obviously a long way from being were Singularity appears to be

The comments about the role of research (feeding ideas to the product inventing people rather than trying to *be* the product inventing people) fitted well with Dave Thomas’s I thought.

]]> By: rfl4711 http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-88-the-singularity-research-os-with-galen-hunt/#comment-157 rfl4711 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-157 This interview reminded me a bit of the pypy project – those guys sort of come from the other side, trying to derive static information from dynamic languages.

To my knowledge pypy has not tried to build an OS core, but they have achieved quite an impressive degree of flexibility as far as the compilation process is concerned – the same code can be deployed on a JVM, CLR, natively etc.

check out http://codespeak.net/pypy/

– Robert Lauer.

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