Comments on: A Toothy Torpedo Covered in Sandpaper https://www.isegoria.net/2014/06/a-toothy-torpedo-covered-in-sandpaper/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gunther https://www.isegoria.net/2014/06/a-toothy-torpedo-covered-in-sandpaper/comment-page-1/#comment-1287721 Gunther Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:43:05 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=35145#comment-1287721 There may be some interesting swimsuits for the 2016 Olympics…

]]> By: Adbge https://www.isegoria.net/2014/06/a-toothy-torpedo-covered-in-sandpaper/comment-page-1/#comment-1286557 Adbge Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:04:53 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=35145#comment-1286557 Studying nature and then exploiting it for technological gain is sort of akin to burning fossil fuel: we “burn” the computational cycles evolution has spent optimizing a process for cheap gain.

Presumably, we’ll eventually exhaust the study of natural processes and be forced to do the computation ourselves.

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