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Mouse brain simulated on computer
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| 4/27/07
Posted on 04/28/2007 4:44:33 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Mouse brain simulated on computer All right; who ELSE saw that headline and immediately thought of Howard Dean?
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posted on
04/28/2007 4:46:59 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: LibWhacker
Mouse Brain....Eat...Sex...Eat....Sex
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posted on
04/28/2007 4:48:51 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
To: LibWhacker
Only half? They should have started with something simpler, like Rosie O’Donnell’s brain.
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posted on
04/28/2007 4:53:19 PM PDT
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
04/28/2007 4:58:44 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: Raycpa
Ah! I see you understand the question.
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:00:13 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: LibWhacker
Considering how big they are, cockroaches can't have very big brains. And yet, some of the things cockroaches do (like playing dead) are downright clever. Computers as clever as cockroaches would be scary. |
To: LibWhacker
I squeek, therefore I am.
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:04:24 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: LibWhacker
But is it legal to turn it off? Or ethical?
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:06:29 PM PDT
by
patton
(19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
To: LibWhacker
Mouse brain simulated on computer Cool - so computer scientists have already achieved AI greater than the liberal mind! Awesome!
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:09:37 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
To: Nick Danger
And yet, some of the things cockroaches do (like playing dead) are downright clever. They're remarkably patient, too. I have a couple in my basement that have been playing dead for months.
To: Nick Danger
And yet, some of the things cockroaches do (like playing dead) are downright clever.
...not when you use a follow-up whack...
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:23:02 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: Raycpa
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:24:03 PM PDT
by
chaos_5
To: TASMANIANRED
eat
We feed all our field mice when they come to visit.
Unfortunately for them it is mouse poison.
So let's hope this machine is smarter than all the dead mice. :-)
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:26:51 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Help! I am a prisoner in LKOT (Leftist Kook Occupied Territory.))
To: TASMANIANRED
Mouse Brain....Eat...Sex...Eat....Sex
You missed part of the article. The article said "half the brain of a mouse", which means half the smarts of a mouse. Therefore, instead of "eat, sex, eat, sex", it would be "eat, eat, eat, eat". Which would mean that if all they do is "eat" and have no sex, they would go extinct. Same for the reverse: "sex, sex, sex", which would cause them to die of hunger.
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:39:34 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: TASMANIANRED
I thought that was Bill Clinton’s brain?
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:48:53 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:53:00 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: LibWhacker
Mouse brain simulated on computer
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:56:58 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(The most dangerous place in the world is between Hillary and the Oval Office)
To: LibWhacker
There are groups trying to simulate brain function, and there are other groups trying to use biological tissues themselves to perform fast calculations (biocomputation, including DNA computing and neurocomputers aka "wetware").
On a much smaller scale, another "complementary pairing" is the use of computation to simulate atomic, molecular, surface, and bulk physics and chemistry (quantum Monte Carlo, density functional theory); the flip side, if you will, is the use of atomic/molecular systems themselves to perform calculations (quantum computation).
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posted on
04/28/2007 6:09:38 PM PDT
by
M203M4
(Constitutional Republic has a nice ring to it - alas, it's incompatible with the communist manifesto)
To: LibWhacker
Their simulated half-mouse brain is no match for the mousetrap simulation I have ready to unleash on it. It is a FULL mousetrap. Heh, heh! I cheat.
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posted on
04/28/2007 6:46:58 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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