It's the idea of computation.

Open scientific computation platform

Costs

The home, once again, because of distributed computation

Information processing is computation, computation requires a computer there's no known way of making a computer without matter.

And it's not just computation.

Now, ask yourself about computation.

let's actually do the computation.

Certainly physical processes involve computation.

Phone costs

But that costs millions of dollars.

What about costs of fringe benefits?

Responsible for the computation of the algebraic equation of a locus.

We'll go through, the actual computation of the correlation coefficient.

Computation only exists relative to consciousness.

So it's actually very little computation.

So they're the variable costs, and that's literally the actual costs of making those widgets.

Benefits of course should exceed the costs.

Nowadays, traveling costs a lot of money.

What are the environmental costs of it?

That costs you another couple of bucks.

Sport costs money.

What are my fixed costs? What are my variable costs?

It's still a difficult computation, an NP hard computation, to do inference over Bayes nets in general.

What are your operating costs? What are the basic fixed and variable costs of the business?

I have to do a little bit of mental computation here.

None of it's hard. None of it costs money.

And it doesn't just apply to computation.

Now that doesn't mean computation is arbitrary.

We're terrible at scale, computation and volume.

Wages contain income tax, costs for fringe benefits and social costs.

One MRI scan costs 10 times what a digital mammogram costs.

The maintenance of the house costs a lot.

Also, think of cleaning costs after the event.

One gram of cochineal costs about 30 euros.

They've lowered the transaction costs of stopping genocide.

I realize how much more powerful the idea of computation really is.

It only costs 10.00!

A permanent costs extra.

Account for running costs

Hugely expensive capital costs.

Every ticket costs 3.

And it costs 100,000.

It costs 5,20 CHF.

It costs you 100.