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Re: an idea, can someone tell me if this is possible/been done before/etc?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:37:42 GMT
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Jim Choate <RAVAGE@EINSTEINspamcake.SSZ.COM>
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Steve Baker wrote:
> Gordon Elliott wrote:
> > On "complexity", I would point out that the computational power of the
> > neural pathways of the house fly thoroughly exceeds the computational
> > throughput of our most massive supercomputer clusters at the moment.
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> That was true 20 years ago.
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> A housefly's brain contains just 400 neurons. Your PC can easily simulate
> a 400 neuron neural network at faster update rates than biological neurons.
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> The problem isn't the raw computational power.
Roger doger on that. I understand that C. Elegins (sp?) is the current top
project goal for this sort of stuff. Something like 10,000 neurons.
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