While I am not an expert, but won't it run into Xeno's like paradox? But makes for interesting reading.

What do you mean by "run into"?

Zeno's paradoxes are thought experiments. The original paradox of Achilles and the tortoise purported to show that Achilles would never be able to overtake the tortoise. But of course, in a real race Achilles would encounter no difficulty whatsoever in doing that.

The Infinity Machine almost certainly isn't physically possible, but that's because of the laws of physics, not because of Zeno.

Unless there's an infinite number of programs of finite size, which sounds impossible, then no.

Turns out the only thing we are doing is making more and more monopolies, there are no free markets and no choice for buyers. Your 88 brands of toothpaste are owned by two corporations. But yeah.

granted synthetic is closely related to synthesis, but in common parlance synthetic would mean something that is not natural or abiotic in some sense, in case of synthetic data, it should imply data that doesn't occur naturally from human and natural sources. i.e. synthetic data would be exactly the one that is assembled from algorithmic output. granted im not able to explain it as well as i understand it.

I'm hoping this is a typo '191 years ago'. Don't mean to sound pedantic just interested when this was. My friend was in Caltech for his MS + PhD in Electrical engineering from 2008 onwards. I think he graduated in 2014-ish.

Not a typo, just an amusing ambiguity: the course was 191. It would have been around the same time as your friend.

I don't really understand this, many Linux distributions like Universal Blue advertise rollbacks as a feature. How is preventing a roll-back a "security feature"?

Imagine a driver has an exploitable vulnerability that is fixed in an update. If an attacker can force a rollback to the vulnerable older version, then the system is still vulnerable. Disallowing the rollback fixes this.

ohh