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Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film... by mcguire on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:43PM (#4913184)
"Then imagine being able to duplicate yourself without limit to collaborate on problems."

One short, pithy comment: You cannot produce a human baby in one month, even if you assign nine women to the project.

A less pithy comment: "Communication overheads increase as the number of [actors] increases".

Re:Depp to Star as a Supercomputer in Christopher Nolan Film... by woodchuck64 on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @10:42PM (#4914017)
I think we can say that brains/neurons have the lowest communication overhead of any computational approach known. Common computer architectures that move contents of memory to computational hardware through a limited number of ports is incredibly inefficient by comparison. There is massive room for improvement. We're still only using 2 dimensions in silicon, basically.