If you were to go about programming a computer
to think about itself, how would you do it?
Even if we program a computer to think about
itself, the computer would be extremely bored,
because he is as intelligent as a cash register
or washing machine. He just follows commands,
only extremely
Jochen Fromm wrote:
Since a brain contains more
than 100 billion neurons, each pattern is a
vast collection of nearly invisible little
things or processes.
For comparison, LANL Roadrunner has about 5 trillion transistors for the
CPUs (~13000 PowerXCell 8i processors and ~6500 dual core
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is now (apparently!) possible to include arbitrary LaTeX equations
in any web service: blogs, wikis, plain html, and even mime-email.
The stunt is to build an image tag in html which includes the LaTeX to
be
With a little reorganization and forethought, you can even have your own
mini-supercomputer using banks of GPU cards to crunch vectors and matrices.
See Nvidia's CUDA development system, and their Tesla computer system.
- Ken
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Prediction:
BigIron (silicon) games will play on for some time yet. BigWet
(neural tissue) will continue to rule.
As a long-time player in the various games of UberDuber computing at
LANL, starting (spiritually) with Metropolis' MANIAC and currently
playing there with RoadRunner, I continue
Jochen Fromm wrote:
I think it is much more difficult
to use a supercomputer with a trillion operations per second
than a huge cluster of ordinary computers, as you can find them
in Google's data centers.
One code for investigating synthetic cognition is called PetaVision.
This code was
FYI... a few of my publications that are in the general vicinity of
this topic.
Smith S, Watt RC, Hameroff SR. Cellular automata in cytoskeletal
lattice proteins. Physica D, 1984; 10:l68-l74.
Johnson, N. L., Rasmussen, S., Joslyn, C.,
Rocha, L., Smith, S., Kantor, M. (1998). "Symbiotic
Steve Smith wrote:
I'm just a bit further from looking into the room where the RoadRunner
is installed and waiting for it to say What are you doing Dave
(Steve)? as I reach for the 6inch diameter bundles feeding it power
and connections to the outside world.
Btw, I understand the way they
In my opinion, biologically detailed large-scale
models of the brain offer little value if the
system is not embedded in a physical world. It
is a first step in the right direction to examine
vision. The brain is an adaptive system which
becomes useless if it is cut off the environment.
This
