An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect

Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by kristopher on Saturday October 27, 2012 @05:51PM (#4707352)

Isn't it amazing how fast our brains can lock-in and drill-down. For something that might have might only been viewable in a few frames, the author was able to recall a small subset from over 30 years ago.

Will computers ever have the IO bandwidth to compete with the human brain?

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Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by dsil on Saturday October 27, 2012 @06:17PM (#4707415)

For what it's worth, I cut out an image of just the map from the screenshot posted, and gave it to google reverse-image-search, and it did NOT match it to a map of Zork. It just returned a bunch of similarly colored images.

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Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by njharman on Saturday October 27, 2012 @11:27PM (#4708057)

What do you define as a computer? a single cpu, one rack unit, a cluster? What is your definition of "compete"?

Computers already beat humans at math, memory, chess, and many other things. Certainly believe Google's clusters have the IO to compete with humans at searching and filtering.

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Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by indiecore on Saturday October 27, 2012 @06:08PM (#4707393)

>Will computers ever have the IO bandwidth to compete with the human brain?

Probably, it's just a matter of time.

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