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Topic: did you know....? (Read 2069 times)
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RTyp06
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"...computers have long exceeded brain computation capability."
Whaaa? You've got it way wrong bro. I'd like to know the source of this info because they couldn't be more wrong. Today's computers can't come close to the real-time processing power of the human brain. If you find this article will you share it please?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/
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xenoclone
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It's hard to compare computers to brains. But basically, the brain runs at a slower frequency than a computer. This much is true. Your neurons and so forth aren't firing at 3 GHz or anywhere close. The brain makes up for this with massive parallelism. Only in the past few years have we seen computers go to multiple parallel hardware threads... 2, 4, 6 threads. The brain, on the other hand, basically has a much larger number of things it can do simultaneously. It isn't, for example, issuing the command to breath, then the heart beat command, then the "take a picture with the eye" command, etc... it's all happening at once.
So what "computes" more is an odd question. Hands down, a computer is going to add numbers together faster. It can read data faster. But what software struggles with are things like analogies, intuitive leaps, and so forth. These are basically what we humans consider signs of intelligence... hence we tend to call our brains more powerful. But it really depends on what context you put the comparison in.
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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Information theory actually doesn't have so much to say about it until you can tell it what to consider the information in question.
As for the movie, I'd really like to see some cites on the stuff comprising most of minute 4.
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