"You need one laptop to do all the calculations for one neuron," he said. "So you need ten thousand laptops. Instead, he uses an IBM Blue Gene machine with 10,000 processors."
I assume that means he needs to network 10 million Blue Genes to simulate the 100 billion neurons in the human brain. How many Blue Genes are there on the planet? Need a hell of a grant for the tech support and electric bill too.
These simulations are all well and good but let's not get too excited too quickly.
I had a base 2K of RAM and a 1 mhz processor on my Sinclair ZX81 too, and I could play lunar lander (with what we called graphics back then on the whopping 16K expansion).
Society lets people do what they, and business, _really_ want to do -- particularly in the area of driving. Observed it during 25 years of walking/jogging/running to work and back and dodging cars. Whenever somebody runs over a pedestrian in the U.S. the news reports "whether alcohol was involved." Apparently, and paradoxically, if alcohol was _not_ involved it was a clean kill, and there will be no legal consequences.
The way I see it, society has decided that a few people have to die. If everybody had to sit in their driveway every morning and contemplate that today could be the day they get charged with murder or manslaughter because they fucked up, how many would leave their houses? But it _does_ mean people die.
Ireland is in the EU. This is fine with the Hague? Europeans should be as ashamed of Ireland as the U.S. is of Kentucky (Creation Museum) -- and, well, yeah, several other nearby states.
We'll see what the Feds decide to do with the wanker. If he mentioned a particular spell he had in mind for the plane, it could make for an interesting trial. During the Vietnam war I must have had pizza for dinner half a dozen times because the dorm food service was closed for bomb threats. Nobody was ever prosecuted back then.
My first thought too. The question is whether they sequenced _only_ for the BAK anomaly or whether they looked for other differences -- like whether the diseased tissue was from the patient's mother and not thriving in the patient's body.
Used a rave as an excuse to bring in truckloads of National Guard, SWAT and local police with helicopters and tear gas as a training exercise against a rave in Utah.
Sometimes I don't even think this is ecstasy hysteria. Sometimes it seems like echoes beyond the singularity of the defense forces of the anglo world in service to the RIAA keeping ears safe from the competition of Euro-trance.
Apollo-era reference. The young'ns might not even know what you are referring to if they slept through the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird at school.
I guess I did better than NASA. I _still_ have a few home-developed B&W photos of the landing I took of the B&W TV my parents got me for my bedroom. Immensely disappointing.
Yup, that's point one. On the other hand, I'm also tired of, "Not that the scientists are suggesting that the monkeys actually understand language." By his actions, my cat understands "tuna time!", "Out for Gordie!", "No!", "Good Boy!", "cuddle?", and "come on!" -- "no" less than perfectly.
Many scientists have to get over _their_ blinders that comprehension _must_ imply anthropomorphism. I'm perfectly happy assuming my cat is an alien consciousness. That this alien consciousness can respond appropriately in varied, real world situations to some of my utterances should be doubly interesting to consciousness studies.
There is the larger question of what it _means_ to "understand" language of course -- and, for that matter, how often humans typically first "understand" the philosophical depth of an utterance before they then respond to it. That's a whole 'nother game.
A question I would _really_ have liked to have seen asked of that sample for cross-correlation is: "Is abortion murder because it destroys a destiny?" My guess is that the correlation would be high because such people would consider a "destiny" as "real" as "thought crime". "Reification" in a one dollar word. There are other examples that could be explored.
At the very least she would have to get him _in_ Minnesota where there isn't execution. Cross state lines and it's a federal case. Slimy little rape killer made that mistake up here the other year.
1200! You lucky *@(%^%&#^!! CompuServe was my first home connection on Thanksgiving weekend of '86 with the plug-in 300 baud modem for a Commodore.
Although at something like $14/hour, I quickly spent most of my time on GEnie at about $11/hour where my username was smc. What are the odds you can get your initials? About 17576 available, actually, which I thought was so cool I hung onto the account much longer into the 90s when I was webbing than I should have.
Remember one from when I was working at a research hospital. Takes a while to die without a functioning liver. Expect residents to pop in on you to take a look at the "dumb shit." Probably not what you had in mind?
Speaking of. I always heard that sperm banks didn't want their donors masturbating between sessions. Seems like now it's a quality vs. quantity issue, as it were, These findings could significantly increase the bank of happy donors.
Some guy did a study many years ago showing that if a runner carries a glass water bottle in the hand facing the lane, cars are significantly more likely to give him leeway. Which just goes to show that a significant percentage of drivers don't give a rat's ass about creaming your squishy body but don't want their paint scratched by a hard object. Physically innumerate and morally bankrupt but that's the results, so project something that will cause a driver to give the bicyclist leeway, not something that gives the driver a heads up that a target is "there".
Find a job that isn't killing you first. Done the night shift. Done the long hours and commute and 4.5/hrs of sleep/day. Never done the two together and don't recommend either.
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"You need one laptop to do all the calculations for one neuron," he said. "So you need ten thousand laptops. Instead, he uses an IBM Blue Gene machine with 10,000 processors."
I assume that means he needs to network 10 million Blue Genes to simulate the 100 billion neurons in the human brain. How many Blue Genes are there on the planet? Need a hell of a grant for the tech support and electric bill too.
These simulations are all well and good but let's not get too excited too quickly.
is a car with frickin' laser beans on its cylinder head?
I had a base 2K of RAM and a 1 mhz processor on my Sinclair ZX81 too, and I could play lunar lander (with what we called graphics back then on the whopping 16K expansion).
Society lets people do what they, and business, _really_ want to do -- particularly in the area of driving. Observed it during 25 years of walking/jogging/running to work and back and dodging cars. Whenever somebody runs over a pedestrian in the U.S. the news reports "whether alcohol was involved." Apparently, and paradoxically, if alcohol was _not_ involved it was a clean kill, and there will be no legal consequences.
The way I see it, society has decided that a few people have to die. If everybody had to sit in their driveway every morning and contemplate that today could be the day they get charged with murder or manslaughter because they fucked up, how many would leave their houses? But it _does_ mean people die.
Ireland is in the EU. This is fine with the Hague? Europeans should be as ashamed of Ireland as the U.S. is of Kentucky (Creation Museum) -- and, well, yeah, several other nearby states.
Although I suppose that could still leave unpleasant battlefield moments open.
It would surprise me if modifications don't include something like a pitcher plant to trap insects. Lot of calories in meat.
We'll see what the Feds decide to do with the wanker. If he mentioned a particular spell he had in mind for the plane, it could make for an interesting trial. During the Vietnam war I must have had pizza for dinner half a dozen times because the dorm food service was closed for bomb threats. Nobody was ever prosecuted back then.
My first thought too. The question is whether they sequenced _only_ for the BAK anomaly or whether they looked for other differences -- like whether the diseased tissue was from the patient's mother and not thriving in the patient's body.
Used a rave as an excuse to bring in truckloads of National Guard, SWAT and local police with helicopters and tear gas as a training exercise against a rave in Utah.
Sometimes I don't even think this is ecstasy hysteria. Sometimes it seems like echoes beyond the singularity of the defense forces of the anglo world in service to the RIAA keeping ears safe from the competition of Euro-trance.
_Now_ how many people at Amazon's marketing wish they could stick the faces of some lawyers in a rat cage?
The one I remember _not_ playing a lot because I never got anywhere. Finished Planetfall.
Apollo-era reference. The young'ns might not even know what you are referring to if they slept through the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird at school.
I guess I did better than NASA. I _still_ have a few home-developed B&W photos of the landing I took of the B&W TV my parents got me for my bedroom. Immensely disappointing.
The really syrupy meow is distinctive. My cat usually uses it to beg to go out, but then she'd rather go out in the morning first, eat later.
Cats have many distinctive behaviors. How long until scientists realize cats smile?
Yup, that's point one. On the other hand, I'm also tired of, "Not that the scientists are suggesting that the monkeys actually understand language." By his actions, my cat understands "tuna time!", "Out for Gordie!", "No!", "Good Boy!", "cuddle?", and "come on!" -- "no" less than perfectly.
Many scientists have to get over _their_ blinders that comprehension _must_ imply anthropomorphism. I'm perfectly happy assuming my cat is an alien consciousness. That this alien consciousness can respond appropriately in varied, real world situations to some of my utterances should be doubly interesting to consciousness studies.
There is the larger question of what it _means_ to "understand" language of course -- and, for that matter, how often humans typically first "understand" the philosophical depth of an utterance before they then respond to it. That's a whole 'nother game.
Yeah, sounds great. Looks like Free is a recipe for snowballing innovation.
A question I would _really_ have liked to have seen asked of that sample for cross-correlation is: "Is abortion murder because it destroys a destiny?" My guess is that the correlation would be high because such people would consider a "destiny" as "real" as "thought crime". "Reification" in a one dollar word. There are other examples that could be explored.
At the very least she would have to get him _in_ Minnesota where there isn't execution. Cross state lines and it's a federal case. Slimy little rape killer made that mistake up here the other year.
1200! You lucky *@(%^%&#^!! CompuServe was my first home connection on Thanksgiving weekend of '86 with the plug-in 300 baud modem for a Commodore.
Although at something like $14/hour, I quickly spent most of my time on GEnie at about $11/hour where my username was smc. What are the odds you can get your initials? About 17576 available, actually, which I thought was so cool I hung onto the account much longer into the 90s when I was webbing than I should have.
Sounds like a wonky way of noticing that culture matters in a techno-barbaric age.
Remember one from when I was working at a research hospital. Takes a while to die without a functioning liver. Expect residents to pop in on you to take a look at the "dumb shit." Probably not what you had in mind?
so there is nothing to learn.
Speaking of. I always heard that sperm banks didn't want their donors masturbating between sessions. Seems like now it's a quality vs. quantity issue, as it were, These findings could significantly increase the bank of happy donors.
Some guy did a study many years ago showing that if a runner carries a glass water bottle in the hand facing the lane, cars are significantly more likely to give him leeway. Which just goes to show that a significant percentage of drivers don't give a rat's ass about creaming your squishy body but don't want their paint scratched by a hard object. Physically innumerate and morally bankrupt but that's the results, so project something that will cause a driver to give the bicyclist leeway, not something that gives the driver a heads up that a target is "there".
Find a job that isn't killing you first. Done the night shift. Done the long hours and commute and 4.5/hrs of sleep/day. Never done the two together and don't recommend either.
How dare you sell technology to _another_ country to oppress their people -- you unfaithful bastards?