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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.
>







  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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