Deleted E-Book

Alexandra Kirschbaum

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 32

Beschreibung

In the beginning, the trace of a soft pencil on a piece of paper. Soon it is filled with numbers and formulas. A young woman becomes involved in the project of the man in whose ideas hardly anyone wants to believe. The application for his research project is rejected by an overpowering computer system. Two days after the rejection, the man is dead. Nonetheless, his thoughts develop a surprising life of their own.

Leseprobe

Contents

Idea

Conversation

Offer

Handwork

Engagement

Amazing

Data

Gamma

Breakfast

Dream

New

Copies

Bath

Tired

Vac

Aftermath

Displeased

Polite

Details

Wish

Jupiter

About the authors

Idea

Tó wondered why, in the default setting, in nearly all systems, it was always a woman’s face that visualized the counterpart.

Conversation

The conversation with the digital assistant had been very unpleasant. A few times Tó had even reached out for the normally hardly used keyboard, and that not because of a special character that was not properly resolved by the speech recognition.

He had already realized that it would not be so easy to explain the project to the system, but, before he could submit a grant application, he needed a calculation, and if everything had gone well, he would have gotten a reliable prognosis right away — that’s what the system was for, after all. But it had not gone well.

Leap innovation. That wasn’t just the next logical step. It was a whole lot of steps at once. Of course, there was also the possibility of failure. But perhaps he shouldn’t have said that.

The system simply did not understand that one could also calculate with pencil and paper. Of course, AlRith and all the tools they had developed here at the institute could be used to write highly efficient functional algorithms. But sometimes you could just have a good idea without a computers help. Of course, new hardware models could also be computed on the highly potent classical machines. In the beginning, quantum computers were also simulated on existing machines. But there were leap innovations. Something really new could also be fundamentally different. The fact that it could not be simulated on the current supercomputers did not automatically mean that it could not work.

Probably what he had in mind was somehow like an attempt to convince a system that thought it had found a solution for everything — and from a certain point of view the system did have a solution for everything — that there were also solutions outside its imaginary space.

Was that possible?

Efri was one of the few here who could really listen. What she said was never trivial.

Offer

“You just have to accept that,” Efrie said, “no one is going to give you half a million simply because you think you have a good idea.”

Tó looked into his coffee. She was right. Of course she was right.

“Well, I can help you out a little,” Efrie said, “got some spare capacity, I can give it to you.”

Tó smiled. That was an offer. Efrie was the best on the team. Two or three days from her was more than a start-up funding from the grant fund.

A new project, that was always like diving into a sparkling whirlpool. There was so much liveliness and joy. That made him euphoric every time.

Handwork

Actually, he only had the three sheets with the handwritten sketches. There was already a problem when scanning them. The OCR software resolved the formula characters completely differently. Obviously, the system did not know his notation style. The assignment of the operators was completely unusable. Doing it by hand would take time. In addition, he noticed that some formulas could not be represented in the software in this way. He would have to develop models there himself. He might even have to write a whole new rule set of logic frames.