Update.

[Fel]

Just a quick note.

I should have the last chapter of inception done sometime by the weekend, at least I think so.

[TLGG]

Awesome!! Thanks for the effort Fel!

[Greymist]

Sweet. Now that I've finally finished reading The Wheel of Time series, I've caught up with Inception, and am happy to receive more

[ramouton]

Great to hear, can hardly wait. (Even though I will)

[Blacktiger]

Cool !!!!

[Mizriath]

Hah,
Are we there yet.... is the weekend here.....
4 days 18 hours 23 minutes ....
and counting.

[mjkj]

Great

Thank you, Fel!

[Fel]

Yeah, well, here's an update for you: my car's timing belt broke today, my car stalled out in the middle of the street and I caused quite a traffic jam cause nobody would help me push it over to the side...and without someone to steer, that car was going nowhere. Power steering means without power, you need two hands and a lot of effort to turn the wheel, and you can't do that while trying to push the car at the same time.

Guess that money you guys sent me is about to come in very handy, cause most of it is still in my paypal account.

Here's hoping the repair bill's not absolutely ridiculous.

[boballab]

Yeah, well, here's an update for you: my car's timing belt broke today, my car stalled out in the middle of the street and I caused quite a traffic jam cause nobody would help me push it over to the side...and without someone to steer, that car was going nowhere. Power steering means without power, you need two hands and a lot of effort to turn the wheel, and you can't do that while trying to push the car at the same time.

Guess that money you guys sent me is about to come in very handy, cause most of it is still in my paypal account.

Here's hoping the repair bill's not absolutely ridiculous.

It will mostly depend on how easy/hard it is to get to the timing belt. Back around 1993 I had the timing belt go on my old 85 Escort and it cost $500 to replace since it wasn't all that easy to get to on that car.

[kaas]

I am glad that we could help you out!

cheers

[Fawks]

I am glad that we could help you out!

cheers

Ditto.

[ettoren]

hopefully it hasn't done anything more than trash the timing on the engine. Last time I had a timing belt come off I smashed 6 of 16 valves, cracked the head and twisted the crankshaft. At that point is was more economical to just buy a different vehicle

[The Thing]

Are we there yet ??

Hey guys, did u check this out ?

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1876 ... ransistors

I know, I know, to achieve a human brain we need to put together at least a 1000 of these chips but still

The main questions now are :
1) how scalable are these chips
2)how many can we pile together

and when we do both those,

3)Is the performance improvement at least linear ?
4)What happens to the power consumption ?

If we can some how answer those, then probably, we might be close to a Cybi !!

What do you think ? Possible ? No ? Your opinions folks.


Oh, by the way Fel, holding on to technicality, another 24 hrs and your own deadline of weekend is done. So....waiting for that chapter.


Edit : Found a way to contradict my own idea ! Having a set of hardware and writing code to make the hardware behave the way want are two hugely different topics. So, may be it wont be any time soon, but probably in the next 50 years or so, we will probably have both the hardware and software to achieve this.

[Spec8472]

I know, I know, to achieve a human brain we need to put together at least a 1000 of these chips but still

There seems to be a lot of marketing guff surrounding this.
We don't know what they consider "brain like" operations, we don't know how mutable these are. And their paper is locked behind a subscription site.

I read something maybe 6 months ago where someone had gone through a bunch of chips that were supposed to emulate the behavior of the brain. Most of them fell massively short of what their marketing and press releases said they could do.

Sure, they're useful and more efficient in very narrow areas of work - but in terms of applicability to solving general problems, they're nigh on useless.

[Fel]

Well, I got my car back today, after EIGHT DAYS. Needless to say, I'm never taking my car back to that shop, and that's a surprise given how good they were before this new company bought them out. I guess the new management doesn't give a flip about things like customer service. After nearly eight days of being promised "we'll get started on it tomorrow," I showed up this morning and demanded my key back. THEN they decided they could get to my car.

It was a very expensive week, meh. After $260 for the rental car, $65 for tow, and $640 repair bill, needless to say, that's where all that money you guys graciously sent me went.