Ternary is fashionable again because of IOTA? As in the cryptocurrency/network?
...since when? To put it bluntly I don't think any mainstream academic community takes IOTA seriously. Its stated justifications for using ternary computing are pretty weak, theoretical benefits notwithstanding.
You’re welcome, mainstream academic communities do a different job, though. I can see the long-term benefits in trying something technologically novel to accommodate a fully interconnected IoT planet but I am not paid by IOTA to evangelize, so, again, we will see what happens.
Sure, but we can agree IOTA hasn't made anything "fashionable" again right? If it's not being taken seriously by the research community and it hasn't otherwise driven material innovation, it's not setting any trends.
There has always been research interest in ternary computing. But I don't know a single serious research institution or group (even if not academic) which concurs with IOTA's approach.
Well, their vision is shared by industrial partners indeed. I presume we are seeing this from different perspectives (mine: industrial ability within some limitations; yours: full theoretical validation) and maybe we need to agree which is which for “exciting areas of research” and “fashionable”?
A couple of Italian high school teachers in electronics are building dedicated hardware from Raspberry / Arduino and writing firmware, details here: https://giuseppetalarico.wordpress.com . Still in its infancy and possibly amateurish but sound, they even got sensible feedback last month while exhibiting at the European Maker Faire in Rome, so we will see.
Not totally related to the question, but the company I work for (Fortune 10) was going through its annual round of entertaining prospective interns and my department, relating to the biggest of Big Data, was trying to attract a few of them to apply here. Out of 50 prospects, not a single person applied. They all want to do the perceived "sexy" work, I guess.
What irks me is that our group is thin on really talented developers and yet the problems are all first class, requiring highly marketable skills and technologies. No takers for real work, though.
I've seen Keenan Crane of CMU give some great applications of differential geometry to computational geometry and manufacturing/fabrication. He has a book on applied discrete differential geometry available here [1] and also a good youtube channel [2] with talks showing applications. A good nontechnical talk giving an overview of the basics and the motivation for the formalism is [3]. A nontechnical talk showing an application to fabrication is [4].
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 59.1 ms ] thread...since when? To put it bluntly I don't think any mainstream academic community takes IOTA seriously. Its stated justifications for using ternary computing are pretty weak, theoretical benefits notwithstanding.
There has always been research interest in ternary computing. But I don't know a single serious research institution or group (even if not academic) which concurs with IOTA's approach.
What irks me is that our group is thin on really talented developers and yet the problems are all first class, requiring highly marketable skills and technologies. No takers for real work, though.
[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DGPDEC/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/keenancrane/videos
[3] https://youtu.be/Mcal5Cy7r4E?t=408
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiekJeTEQ-U
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696271