All of the variables are either 0 or 1.

(Old topic, but it was active today so I'm adding to it.) For someone who doesn't socialize much in general, what is the best way to go about having these deep conversations with other people at conferences?

Very good question. It's something I wish there was more discussion of.

As an extreme example to illustrate the point, consider the implications of simulating just 3 atoms for as long a timescale as possible.

@Pedro, you seem to know quite a bit about simulation (I'm still somewhat new at it), so I have to ask: for serial computation, and with money being no factor, wouldn't CPUs be the fastest? GPUs are composed of many thread-blocks running in parallel at much lower clockspeeds than CPUs, which is great for large systems of millions of atoms, but if I'm not mistaken, a huge number of CPUs would still be faster for simulating long timescales, right? (And by huge, I mean an entirely impractical number of them).

Altered someone's edit to my post. We are not "RGB-seeing" humans, as I thought I had presented clearly enough. We have three types of cone cells that sense different wavelengths. For tetrachromats and color-blind people, this doesn't correspond to RGB!