Indefinitely Scalable Computer Architecture 

Really cool talk, although I still feel dirty about considering a world without strict correctness.

There is a powerful addition to the list of advantages for a robust-first computing system. To illustrate I will take an example from my own area of interest; agricultural robotics. To an outside observer watching a field worker picking a food crop, berries for example, such work may appear mindlessly repetitive. But in closer examination one notices that it is anything but. Every berry is different, every plant is different, and every hand and body motion as you move from one picking action to the next is different. To reproduce robotically the picking actions of a farm field worker requires a computational system that can constantly adjust to the changing task requirements that working in a field presents. When looking at the system presented in Dave’s videos, not only is a robust-first computing system tolerant of disruptions within its own structure, but it’s also the perfect computational framework to deal with tasks which are constantly changing, moment-by-moment, in real time. It’s ironic that one of the lowest paid of all the skilled manual labor occupations, farm field work, will be one of the last to be reproduced robotically. But this challenge is the same for any robotic system that needs to work in out-of-doors environments like farming, logging, mining, construction and etc..

Give up on determinism? You're mad! MAD!!! ;)

Absolutely brilliant thoughts!

The XMOS-XK-1 seems to have been discontinued. Is there some new hardware you're working with?