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Student Maps Brain to Image Search
StonyandCher writes to mention that a University of Ottawa grad student is creating a search engine for visual images that will be powered by a system mapped from the human brain. "Woodbeck said he has already created a prototype of the search engine based on his patent, which apes the way the brain processes visual information and tries to take advantage of currently-available graphics processing capabilities in PCs. 'The brain is very parallel. There's lots of things going on at once,' he said. 'Graphics processors are also very parallel, so it's a case of almost mapping the brain onto graphics processors, getting them to process visual information more effectively.'"
They are always in the last place you bother to look. Once you've found them, you don't need to keep looking.
Are they in the last place you could possibly think to look?
I can't speak for everyone, but I have a feeling you find your keys (most of the time) LONG before you run out of places you can think to look.
Just ordering all those places that I might have stuck the stupid things into a conherent search routine seems pretty CPU intensive to me, let alone moving myself to all those places to actually look, but it still never takes more than a few minutes to find them. Doesn't sound all that inefficient to me.
(I realize it might have been a joke, but so many people get worked up about 'the last place I looked' that I find it alarming more than funny)