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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 06:07 AM EST |
Just expensive.
It is quite expensive to manufacture such tolerances so often.
Or do you think the conversion of signals to/from digital data us exact?
In a lot of ways, analog processing is much faster and simpler (and more
accurate) to do - instead of thousands to millions of transistors implementing
digital arithmetic, you only need 5 to 10 just to amplify the input signal.
The problem is scaling the precision required for one small circuit to hundreds
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- I disagree completely - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 10:37 AM EST
- And you don't understand computation... - Authored by: jesse on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 11:10 AM EST
- And you don't understand computation... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 11:38 AM EST
- Sorry about that. - Authored by: jesse on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 12:23 PM EST
- And you don't understand computation... - Authored by: jjs on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 08:52 PM EST
- Easy - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 12:25 AM EST
- Then you understand that mathematics is an abstract concept - Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 06:52 AM EST
- So is physics - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 12:29 PM EST
- If you understand computation - Authored by: jjs on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 07:09 AM EST
- Sure, you can simulate what a computer does with your mind - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 12:33 PM EST
- It's NOT simulation - Authored by: jjs on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 02:52 PM EST
- It's NOT simulation - Authored by: pem on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 03:11 PM EST
- Hardware is NOT software - Authored by: jjs on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 06:54 PM EST
- Who is arguing that software by itself should be patentable? - Authored by: pem on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 07:29 PM EST
- You're missing the simulation point - Authored by: pem on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 01:34 AM EST
- not exactly. - Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 07:09 AM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: pem on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 08:02 AM EST
- That is due to the recurseive observation.. - Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 11:17 AM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 11:49 AM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 01:58 PM EST
- you reminded me of a standard challenge. - Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 03:33 PM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: pem on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 04:42 PM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 08:33 AM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: pem on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 12:28 PM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 09:07 AM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 03:59 PM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: bprice on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 07:52 AM EST
- No, I'm not - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 09:51 AM EST
- I doubt it - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 03:44 PM EST
- No I'm not - Authored by: jjs on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 06:02 PM EST
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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 02:51 PM EST |
Why is it insurmountable? After all, we have a very powerful analog computer
available to us already. Just because we don't know how to build a copy of it
... (hint, it's called a brain).
In fact, I strongly suspect the reason we "can't" do it is, every time
an inventor shouts "eureka, I've DONE it!", he isn't heard over the
groupthink "it's impossible".
After all, if we can build artificial crabs that are happy navigating the surf
zone on a beach ...
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Actually - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 04:59 PM EST
- Actually - Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 07:07 AM EST
- The problem.. - Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 10:31 AM EST
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