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Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by p1esk on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:13PM (#22723253)
Can't compare those teraops directly: my laptop's CPU is a lot more precise than my brain.
Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by softwarejosh on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:01PM (#22724270)
which is good and bad for your brain, brain is more like a decentralized conputing source
Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by p1esk on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:33PM (#22724427)
When you have to be extremely noise/fault tolerant (e.g. you can literally remove half a brain and still function normally [1]), you over-design and over-engineer the system with massive redundancies everywhere. We don't know how much information is actually encoded in these trillions of low precision synapses. Our best deep learning models tend to be very over-parametrized, and are highly compressible. A CPU is nowhere as fault tolerant but it does not have to be, because modern solid state electronics is extremely reliable (and has much wider ranges of operating conditions than human brains).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy

Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by rollingbarreler on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:44AM (#22727551)
>solid state electronics is extremely reliable (and has much wider ranges of operating conditions than human brains).

You'd be surprised actually, as computers start acting super unreliable under radiation, in which humans can function fairly normally

Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by p1esk on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:07AM (#22728600)
According to https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q11162.html

“It takes a radiation dose of about 5 Sv to cause death to most people. Diodes and computer chips will show very little functional detriment up to about 50 to 100 Sv“.

Re:High-speed microscope captures fleeting brain signals by rollingbarreler on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:18AM (#22846951)
It's to note that "little functional detriment" contributes to a catastrophic failure in a digital system. A flip of a single bit can fell the thing you're trying to operate. Humans respond with much more delay and can usually complete most any mission, even if they die of complications later.