I'm writing this in response because I've heard many an excellent thought from users with knowledge of computer design. . however no one seems to grasp any of the central concepts of computational neurobiology. This is a field that I've been devoting my higher eduacation career to and I belive I can share some interesting thoughts. I recently got to hear one of the world's foremost experts on AI share his reasearch. He included an entensive disussion of the ineptitudes of any modern computing system as compared to the human brain. He used a cutting edge force contact model to allow a test computer to identify the motion of obects placed in front of a camera and proceded to tell us that the multitude of high order calculus and logic required for the computer to identify what it saw is something that the brain can do within in pico seconds. . largly due to it's supierior architecture and amazing bandwidth potential. I don't have time to express my own research here, and I belive that it involves more chemistry than people on slashdot care about. However don't forgot one key fact. . human beings use less than 10% of their brain's potential computing factor. There is no comparison between something manmade and the human brain.
I totally agree with your thoughts on custom imports being able to smoke a viper in the 1/4 mile. (Hell yeah the Skyline R34 GT-R is a marvel of import potential and power.) However where I disagree is with your assesment of the skill required for drag racing. While road courses are far tougher to master than the drag strip, there have been many a time where I've embarresed a guys by driving their car down the strip faster then they thought possible. Knowing how to hold a car for launch and being able to perform split second shifts right at redline is not an easy thing to master, not to even mention true powershifting or using a dog-greared trans. Pioloting a high rev-low displacement car like most imports takes more knowledge because the launching characterics are so much more particular. I will also add that driving a stock viper to a fast 1/4 is painfully easy for anyone that can drive a manual...hold revs at 3000, dump clutch, a little wheelspin and your off.
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I'm writing this in response because I've heard many an excellent thought from users with knowledge of computer design. . however no one seems to grasp any of the central concepts of computational neurobiology. This is a field that I've been devoting my higher eduacation career to and I belive I can share some interesting thoughts. I recently got to hear one of the world's foremost experts on AI share his reasearch. He included an entensive disussion of the ineptitudes of any modern computing system as compared to the human brain. He used a cutting edge force contact model to allow a test computer to identify the motion of obects placed in front of a camera and proceded to tell us that the multitude of high order calculus and logic required for the computer to identify what it saw is something that the brain can do within in pico seconds. . largly due to it's supierior architecture and amazing bandwidth potential. I don't have time to express my own research here, and I belive that it involves more chemistry than people on slashdot care about. However don't forgot one key fact. . human beings use less than 10% of their brain's potential computing factor. There is no comparison between something manmade and the human brain.
I totally agree with your thoughts on custom imports being able to smoke a viper in the 1/4 mile. (Hell yeah the Skyline R34 GT-R is a marvel of import potential and power.) However where I disagree is with your assesment of the skill required for drag racing. While road courses are far tougher to master than the drag strip, there have been many a time where I've embarresed a guys by driving their car down the strip faster then they thought possible. Knowing how to hold a car for launch and being able to perform split second shifts right at redline is not an easy thing to master, not to even mention true powershifting or using a dog-greared trans.
Pioloting a high rev-low displacement car like most imports takes more knowledge because the launching characterics are so much more particular. I will also add that driving a stock viper to a fast 1/4 is painfully easy for anyone that can drive a manual...hold revs at 3000, dump clutch, a little wheelspin and your off.