No. The human brain has about 10^11 neurons, each with about 1000 connections to other neurons. Every neuron can fire about 200 times a second. So scientists expect the human brain to have about 20 PFlop/s. Still a little faster than blue gene...
Yeah, for example those insane battery-life-increasing-stickes! I suggest you buy one immediatly! The battery-life of my devices has increased significantly!
the article mentions an AI to be send to the aliens to trade information with them. The problem is, once this all knowing AI reached them they won't bother trading mith it. Instead they'd just disassemble it and instantly gain access to all the worlds knowledge. not the smartest way to trade IMHO
"voice frequency" I doubt the scientists SHOUT REALLY LOUD AT THE SKY to make them heard. We use radiowaves to communicate. They are quite usefull as they do *not* rely on physiological features the aliens might not have. Furtherwore we try to use maths (like prime numbers for example) not plain Suaheli to draw attention to our messages.
even more interesting than the fact of fan's rumor-lust is apple's reaction to such rumors. why does apple sue people who give them free advertising? other companies pay billions to get viral marketing and apple gets it for free. I simply don't understand why apple is so mad about these rumors! It's not like they're promising some features they won't implement later and get people upset. That's the nice thing about rumors, if they're wrong nobody cares! But after all it could be just apple trying to make those rumors believeable.
ah, wait... I already replied to this but... isn't it quite hard to get something on the same orbit as earth is but on the other side of the sun? One would either need to slow the spacecraft down so that it ends up on the other side but that'd mean you'd need to constantly run some kind of propulsion to prevent it from crashing into the sun. Or you could just send it to the opposite side and somehow manage to get it into a stable orbit.
IANSpaceCraftEngineer but to me both ways seem rather pricey in terms of fuel usage
how comes that so many people besieve that a fuzzy processor would be sa much better at AI problems? if we can't do it with a normal chip why should our algorithms work so much better on a chip that doesn't even give us reliable results?
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No. The human brain has about 10^11 neurons, each with about 1000 connections to other neurons. Every neuron can fire about 200 times a second. So scientists expect the human brain to have about 20 PFlop/s. Still a little faster than blue gene...
the answer is 42. sounds pretty mathematical to me.
Yeah, for example those insane battery-life-increasing-stickes! I suggest you buy one immediatly! The battery-life of my devices has increased significantly!
wait! there already is a device without buttons that actually has a use! As everything cool you can get it on thinkgeek
Guess AC didn't do it because it's news for nerds
the article mentions an AI to be send to the aliens to trade information with them. The problem is, once this all knowing AI reached them they won't bother trading mith it. Instead they'd just disassemble it and instantly gain access to all the worlds knowledge. not the smartest way to trade IMHO
"voice frequency"
I doubt the scientists SHOUT REALLY LOUD AT THE SKY to make them heard. We use radiowaves to communicate. They are quite usefull as they do *not* rely on physiological features the aliens might not have. Furtherwore we try to use maths (like prime numbers for example) not plain Suaheli to draw attention to our messages.
I guess that's impossible until we either have movie2brain(tm) interfaces or holo technology (like the Leia hologramm)
Not being perfect is no reason for not asking for test which measure improvements.
"Everyone seems to agree that Google's showing signs of building some sort of operating system."
Sure, right after they finished their voip system, their calendar and their GBrowser, and have taken over the domain registration market.
Not to mention their commitment to Duke Nukem Forever
get the chip and render them yourself!
even more interesting than the fact of fan's rumor-lust is apple's reaction to such rumors.
why does apple sue people who give them free advertising? other companies pay billions to get viral marketing and apple gets it for free.
I simply don't understand why apple is so mad about these rumors!
It's not like they're promising some features they won't implement later and get people upset. That's the nice thing about rumors, if they're wrong nobody cares!
But after all it could be just apple trying to make those rumors believeable.
However, what do you think?
ah, wait... I already replied to this but...
isn't it quite hard to get something on the same orbit as earth is but on the other side of the sun?
One would either need to slow the spacecraft down so that it ends up on the other side but that'd mean you'd need to constantly run some kind of propulsion to prevent it from crashing into the sun.
Or you could just send it to the opposite side and somehow manage to get it into a stable orbit.
IANSpaceCraftEngineer but to me both ways seem rather pricey in terms of fuel usage
ah, well. you're probably right...
why the same orbit? we could build two (or four or eight...) and send them to a much closer orbit so that they can gather data of much higher quality
did you hear? duke nukem forever release is timed to match this chip's so it can use all t3h new features
oh, my name seems to be longer than the wavelength of light...
you know, gw-basic did this. If you commented on the same line as say the NEXT in a FOR...NEXT was it ran a few millisecends slower.
Per loop.
I can run Linux on a 100Mhz Pentium with 16mb ram and 100mb harddrive.
Without customising the kernel. So what's the point?
You must be new here.
Slashdotters don't read the articles.
why has nobody noticed for such a long time?
ah, yes! now I understand
google googol
how comes that so many people besieve that a fuzzy processor would be sa much better at AI problems?
if we can't do it with a normal chip why should our algorithms work so much better on a chip that doesn't even give us reliable results?
sure. we can't do it right so let's just do it without predictable results and claim it always works when the press isn't watching...