Samantha, As you are doubtless aware, supercomputers have computational abilities 3 or more orders of magnitude beyond home computers.
My son Ed and I have been playing at simulating biologically believable neural networks for quite a while. However, it is hard to do much of anything on a home computer, because they are soooo sloooow. Interactivity - forget it. Perhaps you have noticed some of my postings regarding the apparent need to compute on dP/dt rather than naked probabilities, as being apparently necessary for temporal learning. This means computing in real time, or at least slowed down real time. All this is leading to needing a computer that is a LOT faster than "modern" home computers. Whatever we get to heat one of our homes still won't be enough, but it will be 3 orders of magnitude closer - maybe even enough to gather some performance stats to help guide future efforts. This entire field is heading toward a "hump", as more-than-human computing power will be necessary to get real-world algorithms running, so they can be fine tuned to run on 1% of the hardware needed to get over the hump. I was just looking to explore a foothill. Steve ================= On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Samantha Atkins <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Steve Richfield < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> So, if anyone hears of an obsolete supercomputer becoming available, >> please let me know and/or pass my contact information on to whoever now has >> the supercomputer. >> >> >> > What would you use it for exactly? Personally I own six computers not > counting phones and tablets and an instance or two in the cloud. I would > be quite proud if I kept those machines busy on something productive beyond > running folding at home or the equivalent. That is I would be quite proud > if I put them to work successfully myself on things I personally care about > a great deal. > > So I am more interested in how to keep machines productively busy than in > having a furnace that also computes. > > - samantha > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
