The rapid fall in sequencing prices may give genomics an equivalent of Moore's Law, which describes how the number of transistors on computer chips doubles every 18 months, steadily driving down the cost of computing power.
Such advances help drive the cost of computing power downward.
So why do weapons not follow Moore's Law, which predicts the rapid fall in the cost of computing power?
For a systems with N source/observation points, the cost of computing these potentials scales proportional to O N2).
That drove down the cost of computing with graphics, and also made available a number of toolkits for games-quality virtual worlds that people could sympathise with".
By placing more circuits on a silicon wafer at an exponentially increasing pace since the early 1960s, the semiconductor industry transformed the cost of computing.
The multi-trillionfold decline in the cost of computing since the 1970s has created enormous incentives for employers to substitute increasingly cheap and capable computers for expensive labor.
It's trying to lower the cost of computing to the point where it's accessible to the world's poor which is to say, to most of the world's population.
The cost of sequencing human genomes is plunging in the most advanced genomics centers, it's falling five times faster than the cost of computing.
In the early 1970s, a new technology the microprocessor emerged with the potential to spawn vast new applications and dramatically reduce the cost of computing.
The goal of this work is to reduce the cost of computing the coefficients in the Karhunen Loève (KL) expansion.
