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Computers have a lot to learn from the human brain, engineers say: Scientific American Blog
“We have no computers today that can begin to approach the awesome power of the human mind,” Modha said. A computer comparable to the human brain, he added, would need to be able to perform more than 38 thousand trillion operations per second [[http://www.petaflop.info/]] and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory. (IBM’s BlueGene supercomputer, one of the worlds’ most powerful, has a computational capability of 92 trillion operations per second and 8 terabytes of storage.)
By Larry Greenemeier in 60-Second Science Blog
Computers have a lot to learn from the human brain, engineers say: Scientific American Blog
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Computational Engines, Twitter, & Twine
I posted this here in order to begin a trail back to “Wolfram Alpha”. Subject of a discussion on my friendfeed about an hour ago. The branches off this tree suddenly took me through the looking glass and into a world of computational engines and AI that is currently the hot topic with some of my friendfeed cohorts. Twine and the Semantic Web suddenly also blipped on to my screen; thus the following link.
All this reminds me of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle and Leibniz’s computational engine based on a symbolic language in the latter 17th century.
Absolutely fascinating!
OK, This should work. I’ve now connected FriendFeed to Twine.
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