if i only knew 5 years ago all that i know now.
maybe book 1, but there are 5 of them in the series. If you could read them in one day, I would be very impressed.
Yeah but they are not that long. I have read them so much I could def. read the series in a day just because my mind would fill in a lot of sentences allowing me to read at a faster pace and still enjoy it.
To add to that.....If a computer has a camera on it (it\'s eyes) and a microphone(ears) and can learn from it\'s mistakes (there are programs like chess that already do that) How long before a computer is smarter then us???
i\'ve had this conversation with my bass player before. i think a computer is already smarter than us. but when will a computer become conscious of itself? when this happens, will the human being be regarded as god by the computer? after all, we are their creator.
it depends on what you consider to be "smart." the human brain can process (i forgot the exact number) something like a million times more tasks simultaneously than the fastest current computer. subconsiously your brain is doing an ungodly (pun intended) amount of processing to make your body do everything that it does, mostly autonomically. However, computers that can been programmed to do a certain function (like chess) are "smarter" than humans at certain things because they can calculate probabilities/outcomes/mathmatical stats much faster than it would take a human to do them out on paper. these computers have the algorithms ready to go when they encounter a certain layout on the chess board.
But think of the above scenario this way. the amount of processing that needs to be done by a human just to be able to pick up a pencil, write on a paper the math, visualize the light waves that bounce back from the paper into your head so you know what you are writing, signal to every muscle in your body that simultaneously needs to move in order to write, and do all the other things that need to be processed in order to calculate the math properly,
while still being consious of your surroundings and react if your friend throws something at you and and you see it coming in your peripheral vision, or if your spouse calls to you that dinner is ready and you need to respond....these are all things that a computer cannot do, and thus the reason why the human brain is still way more powerful of a tool.
im a biophysicist, for the record
If History Tends to repeat itself...
this thread will die soon and be bumped in another 2 years.
The funny thing is I saw my name as starting the thread and I have no recollection of starting it.
I guess I really was drinking when I posted this
lol I just like history alot. I\'m a history major, and since I\'m new here, I searched the word history. And this is what I\'ve came up with.
But if computers ever get free will, and the freedom of choosing what to do. There will be some unwanted computer babies coming out of all of this.
maybe book 1, but there are 5 of them in the series. If you could read them in one day, I would be very impressed.
Yeah but they are not that long. I have read them so much I could def. read the series in a day just because my mind would fill in a lot of sentences allowing me to read at a faster pace and still enjoy it.
as someone who reads the Guide every year and the entire series every other year(-ish), i\'m highly impressed that you can finish all 815 pages in a day. it usually takes me about three weeks. of course, the vast majority of my reading is done on the shitter....
So the Guide is that good?
lol, I did win a 25 dollar Barnes and Noble card from a raffle the other night.
see mayan calendar.
Always with the mayan calendar!!