tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post5904759709877423705..comments2024-02-20T07:06:56.933+00:00Comments on THE SKINNER: Squishy Memristers and Diodes.Neal Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-68533155704053930022010-12-09T17:31:00.016+00:002010-12-09T17:31:00.016+00:00glad to see you like nextbigfuture, great metafilt...glad to see you like nextbigfuture, great metafilter!wintermutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286856017260960466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-33845191286155594272010-12-09T13:10:06.698+00:002010-12-09T13:10:06.698+00:00"one day" *sad face*"one day" *sad face*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29616976.post-12048975107337999542010-12-08T14:22:14.706+00:002010-12-08T14:22:14.706+00:00I love this bit from one of those links:
Consider...I love this bit from one of those links:<br /><br />Consider Deep Blue, IBM's 1.4-ton supercomputer, which in 1997 faced then world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In prior years, Kasparov had defeated the computer's predecessors five times. After a taut series comprising one win apiece and three draws, Deep Blue finally trounced Kasparov in game six. Nevertheless, Deep Blue was not intelligent. To beat Kasparov, its special-purpose hardware used a brute-force strategy of simply calculating the value of 200 million possible chess moves each second. In the same amount of time, Kasparov could plan roughly two chess positions.<br /><br />Over the next 10 years, computing capabilities skyrocketed: By 2007 the processing power of that 1.4-ton supercomputer had been contained within a Cell microprocessor roughly the size of a thumbnail. In the decade between them, transistor counts had jumped from 7.5 million on an Intel Pentium II to 234 million on the Cell.Neal Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933911904170752700noreply@blogger.com