[thagsimmons]

I'm very interested in this area, but I've never been able to get a handle on what's going on in this particular project. There's no coherent explanation of the technical aspects, no documentation, hours and hours of rambling videos, the repository linked from the site is an unstructured grab-bag that revealed nothing enlightening after 15 minutes of rooting around in it. There's also a lot of far-fetched, hubristic ideas and mumbo-jumbo that doesn't pass the sniff test for me. I get whiffs of Terry Davis-style outsider art.

On the other hand, he seems to have an academic pedigree and has presented at serious conferences, so it might be that there's something interesting here that I'm missing. I just can't tell - if anyone else is more enlightened, I'd be interested to hear about it.

[livcomp]

I can understand the outsider art take.. I'm exploring a style of computing that undercuts so many deeply-embedded design assumptions (e.g., CPU, RAM, deterministic execution) that it's a big lift even for people who really want to get it.

It's a bit outdated, but FWIW https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article/22/4/431/2851/The-ulam-P... is reasonably coherent and approachable, I think..

[svnt]

This is brilliant, and needed.

Do you see opportunity in quantum computing given the more direct access to indeterminate state?

[livcomp]

I'm a quantum skeptic when it comes to delivering supraclassical power in full systems at scale, and I expect biochemical computing machines will be likely useful sooner. But yeah, if quantum can one day deliver 'nearly locally deterministic' cycles in volume, I want to have an architecture that can use them.

[livcomp]

The MFM and ULAM repositories are reasonably legit, providing the simulation engine and the compiler respectively. FWIW, there are Ubuntu packages at ppa:ackley/mfm. I apologize if you found the T2Demos repository, yeah, that's a permanent WIP mess.