Re:What Does the Cerebellum Do?
by rzzzt on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:49PM
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"The brain is like a computer that"-style analogies are rarely fitting, or so vague as to being almost useless. My fridge is an L2 cache for food I want to eat soon.
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It would be a useful analogy for someone intricately familiar with computers but who was only sort of vaguely familiar with the concept of eating, has thought about houses only on occasion, and knows about refrigerators only insofar as they’re a food-related thing inside a house.
Re:What Does the Cerebellum Do?
by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday January 07, 2024 @08:09PM
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> My fridge is an L2 cache for food I want to eat soon.
I would think fridge is RAM, L2 is table, L1 is plate. (I am deliberately ignoring the pun potential for Cold Storage.)
But other than bickering about the exact mapping, I don't see the problem with that analogy?
Re:What Does the Cerebellum Do?
by doubled112 on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:19AM
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Cold storage is my freezer. There's often a delay between when I need it and when it is ready.
AC outlet is the clock speed!
Here comes the Forkbus! brm brm
> My fridge is an L2 cache for food I want to eat soon.
A less-volatile form of L2 cache.
Food pocketed in my cheeks are the CPU registers?
Some fridges are like magnetic tapes, with files from 1978.
What's wrong with the fridge analogy?
It's an analogy for a reason. It bothers me when people combat analogies so incredibly hard. Of course, it is not really fitting or the same thing - it's an analogy.