From: Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:28:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60E1F2CA25AB579AC1CC4667@computer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217932456.23601@arch>
> Either that or (like some brain scientists say) something is
> really, really wrong or suboptimal about the human brain.
Despite prospects of brain uptime--that's LE--being around 77.71 years for
each individual of the USAmerican population and the "entire history" of
computers being shorter than that.
I see where your "brain scientists" are driving at. Let them have a
P9-on-x86 transplant for those mouldy clumps in their crania. I'll be
happy to have all their "clumps."
--On Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:34 AM -0700 Richard Maxwell Underwood
<ru@river.org> wrote:
> Roman V. Shaposhnik writes:
>> If we were to oversimplify things [then the] brain
>> is, at its core, limited by a very fundamental biological constraint:
>> speed at which cells can communicate. A sort of "propagation delay"
>> if we were to use electronics as an analogy. It seems to be agreed
>> upon(*) that we can safely assume this constraint to limit our brain
>> to about couple of hundred of processing steps per second. This is
>> known as a "100 steps rule".
>
>> Something is really, really wrong with
>> the computing model we base our technology on, if even the slowest
>> of the computers we can consider useful required a clock rate
>> of KHz.
>
> Either that or (like some brain scientists say) something is
> really, really wrong or suboptimal about the human brain.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 10:34 Richard Maxwell Underwood
2008-08-05 15:28 ` Eris Discordia [this message]
[not found] <9b1933b61c606e89a4cbbc93a4b5a204@quanstro.net>
2008-07-30 17:31 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:58 ` Sape Mullender
2008-07-30 20:04 ` tlaronde
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-30 12:50 erik quanstrom
2008-07-28 17:11 andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-28 17:50 ` tlaronde
2008-07-28 19:52 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-28 21:07 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-28 21:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-29 18:40 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-29 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2008-07-30 11:35 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 11:50 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-30 13:50 ` Paweł Lasek
2008-07-30 17:42 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:07 ` tlaronde
2008-07-30 18:17 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-30 11:58 ` Robert Raschke
2008-07-30 13:53 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-30 14:00 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-07-30 15:35 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-30 16:53 ` Bakul Shah
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