This IBM announcement was just ridiculous. To cite only one argument, the brain does not consist only of neurons. It contains at least as many other cells which are also involved in signal processing. Mohda would be laughed at in any neuroscience conference and he certainly doesn't help the cause of theoreticians in the neuroscience field by making such stupid announcements. Eugene Izhikevich who designed the neuron model being used for these simulations had a PNAS paper not too long ago modeling the entire human brain and he did not claim that he successfully modeled the human brain. Plus no one has any clue how the brain computes really so making a claim about the formation of thoughts is just nonsense.
I would be very curious to see statistics of what exactly those efforts achieved (or will achieve). How many crimes, terrorist attacks or whatever were actually prevented by those. I have the feeling that we hear a lot about new systems being set up and very little about their successes... Surprisingly.
This is likely to be helpful in those countries where cell phones are abundant and where health care is so deficient. Diagnostic could even be offered remotely by western medical centers.
I assume that they will then be allowed to use the pictures and whatever other data those people uploaded as they wish. Good move Facebook! The dead are unlikely to complain about terms of services.
The sad thing is that we will probably have their (and unfortunately my) energetic little president until 2017. You can expect more annoying policies coming in the future.
"At the end of it, Windows put back the drivers I removed, and I reinstalled iTunes which worked fine without any configuration, my library and apps were all there."
So, the Chinese government has just stated to the world that they are not confident that their people are capable of discerning the difference between things that are real, and things that are not real? [...]
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I was wondering why they buy Japanese and not American hardware, thanks for providing this explanation.
This IBM announcement was just ridiculous. To cite only one argument, the brain does not consist only of neurons. It contains at least as many other cells which are also involved in signal processing. Mohda would be laughed at in any neuroscience conference and he certainly doesn't help the cause of theoreticians in the neuroscience field by making such stupid announcements. Eugene Izhikevich who designed the neuron model being used for these simulations had a PNAS paper not too long ago modeling the entire human brain and he did not claim that he successfully modeled the human brain. Plus no one has any clue how the brain computes really so making a claim about the formation of thoughts is just nonsense.
I would be very curious to see statistics of what exactly those efforts achieved (or will achieve). How many crimes, terrorist attacks or whatever were actually prevented by those. I have the feeling that we hear a lot about new systems being set up and very little about their successes... Surprisingly.
This is likely to be helpful in those countries where cell phones are abundant and where health care is so deficient. Diagnostic could even be offered remotely by western medical centers.
I assume that they will then be allowed to use the pictures and whatever other data those people uploaded as they wish. Good move Facebook! The dead are unlikely to complain about terms of services.
The sad thing is that we will probably have their (and unfortunately my) energetic little president until 2017. You can expect more annoying policies coming in the future.
"At the end of it, Windows put back the drivers I removed, and I reinstalled iTunes which worked fine without any configuration, my library and apps were all there."
"I show Les Miserables from the point of view of a minor character who dies early on"
... So you don't actually need to play through that long and boring plot.
So, the Chinese government has just stated to the world that they are not confident that their people are capable of discerning the difference between things that are real, and things that are not real? [...]
... Unlike American and European teenagers.