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Re: Couple of questions about the Mindstorms software
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 20:51:43 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:

Jon Shemitz <jon@midnightbeach.com> wrote:
I know a lot of you scorn RCX code, but I find the enforced simplicity
sort of appealing. Besides, I'm negotiating with some publishers about a

Enforced simplicity is one thing; not having any options is another. (No
real if statements? No memory?)

How much memory does an insect have?

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  Re: Couple of questions about the Mindstorms software
 
(...) Somewhat more than "zero", I think. (Or to be more precise, more than a simple counter.) I'm not an expert, but a quick web search turned up: (4 URLs) Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Couple of questions about the Mindstorms software
 
(...) An insect as a LOT of memory. Your average house fly has about 100,000 neurons, each with 100 to 1000 synapses (connections to other neurons). In the simplest neural network models, each synapse acts like a multiplicative coefficient whose (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Couple of questions about the Mindstorms software
 
Jon Shemitz writes: > How much memory does an insect have? I forget. (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Enforced simplicity is one thing; not having any options is another. (No real if statements? No memory?) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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