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Like Gold and Faceted: Computational horsepower: Natural vs artificial systems
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Saturday, September 29, 2007. Computational horsepower: Natural vs artificial systems. An interesting exercise in dimensional analysis:. Run at about 100 teraflops, or 10 14 flops, whereas desktop computers. Can achieve about 10 10 flops. Furthermore, Moore's law implies that computer performance should double approximately every 24 months. This suggests that computers are very close to the computational capacity of the brain. The New ...
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Like Gold and Faceted: Coffee machine: The legend continues
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Monday, September 17, 2007. Coffee machine: The legend continues. So I managed to get to the Migros on Saturday with a few minutes to spare before the 5pm closing time. I don't think my roommate bought my story that the coffee machine's great aunt was a phoenix, and that it was consumed in a burst of flame and born anew from the ashes. The slag of its predecessor in the sink might have tipped her off. December 21, 2009 at 3:13 PM.
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Like Gold and Faceted: September 2007
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Sunday, September 30, 2007. Boris: Wandering through Plato's cave. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Saturday, September 29, 2007. Computational horsepower: Natural vs artificial systems. An interesting exercise in dimensional analysis:. Run at about 100 teraflops, or 10 14 flops, whereas desktop computers. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Friday, September 28, 2007. Amps that really go to 11. Wolves ...
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Like Gold and Faceted: Remember Clive Wearing
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Saturday, September 22, 2007. One of the most acute known cases of amnesia is that of Clive Wearing (chronicled recently in this article. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Memory loss is kinda scary. Cool post, though. September 23, 2007 at 2:32 AM. December 21, 2009 at 3:12 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I beg to remain, Sir, your most humble and obedient servant,. For a darker tomorrow. Apophenia, take 2.
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Like Gold and Faceted: April 2007
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Scienticians write real good. When I read a paper from a laboratory in Japan or Korea, I'm a little forgiving of grammatical. Mistakes. On the other hand, people working in America in general, and Texas. Should be able to mind their p's. Yang and John H. R. Maunsell. Of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas) have committed an especially grievous. Doesn't anyone proof-read this crap before it's published?
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Like Gold and Faceted: May 2007
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Tuesday, May 29, 2007. Coal is a four-letter word. From the New York Times. We learn that Representative Nick V. Rahall, Democrat of West Virginia and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, believes that. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Monday, May 28, 2007. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Saturday, May 26, 2007. Moreover, were I to cle...
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Like Gold and Faceted: Apophenia, take 2
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Sunday, September 23, 2007. Apophenia, take 2. How the hell was the rat able to figure out that some subtle variation in the pattern of light falling on its retina indicates a nice dry spot to chill out, whereas almost identical patterns would leave it treading water until it drowned from exhaustion? Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. How do you know it is a visual stimulus? October 3, 2007 at 2:02 AM. I beg to remain, ...
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Like Gold and Faceted: Improve your memory by pharmacologically disabling it when it is not needed
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Monday, October 1, 2007. Improve your memory by pharmacologically disabling it when it is not needed. And you thought resveratrol. Paradoxical Facilitatory Effect of Low-Dose Alcohol Consumption on Memory Mediated by NMDA Receptors. Maggie L. Kalev-Zylinska and Matthew J. During. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. An excuse to drink more beer! October 2, 2007 at 12:29 AM. I always knew beer was good for you! JOAN PESKIN...
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Like Gold and Faceted: July 2007
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Sunday, July 1, 2007. SUV drivers for a greener tomorrow. My seat on a flight home from Zurich to New York City produces about 1.7 tons of carbon dioxide. How many reams of white paper would I have to use to place a similar burden on the environment? This is, once again, a case of the tragedy of the commons. Drive an SUV for a greener planet today! Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). JOAN PESK...
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Like Gold and Faceted: When acronyms are not
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Like Gold and Faceted. Smashing your rose-colored glasses since 2007. Monday, November 12, 2007. When acronyms are not. From a current Journal of Neuroscience abstract:. To identify genes downstream of BDNF that may play roles in psychiatric disorders, we examined a subset of BDNF-induced genes also regulated by 5-HT (serotonin), which includes the neuropeptide VGF (nonacronymic). Clearly, there's some in-joke here that I'm missing. Brought to you by the number 2, the letter C, and. For a darker tomorrow.
