Re:Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth
by phlux on Friday November 19, 2010 @02:42PM
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True, but our brains absorb massive amounts of information and process it in parallel whereas it is much more serial for computers.
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Re:Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth
by AngryParsley on Friday November 19, 2010 @09:27PM
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All parallel tasks can be efficiently serialized on a fast CPU but not all serial tasks can be efficiently parallelized on many slow CPUs.
From http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/ :
Can you imagine having to program using 100Hz CPUs, no matter how many of them you had? You'd also need a hundred billion processors just to get anything done in realtime.