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Even in the terms of total human sensory input data rate, humans learn from a very tiny data set. 16 year old human has experienced only about 400 million wake

Even in the terms of total human sensory input data rate, humans learn from a very tiny data set. 16 year old human has experienced only about 400 million wakeful seconds.

so_tired 6y ago
See my other comment > Humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.
DavidSJ 6y ago
At what bitrate though? At 1 MB/s that’s 400 TB, which is nothing to sneeze at.
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  To give a sense of how accurate that estimate is, consider this reference: "In other words, the human body sends 11 million bits per second to the brain for processing, yet the conscious mind seems to be able to process only 50 bits per second." https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Physiology https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Physio...
  - DavidSJ 6y ago
    So quite accurate then, since 11Mb/s = 1.375MB/s. (The conscious mind, of course, is not where most of our learning from experience happens.)
  - pmoriarty 6y ago
    I am very suspicious of the numbers and statistics quoted in this article, as there are no references cited for their claims, and no indication as to how they arrived at them.
  - akiselev 6y ago
    That doesn't sound accurate. The human eye's resolution is in the tens if not hundreds of megapixels [1] with high sensitivity (meaning the compression isn't very lossy so the bits of information remain). Even if you assume only a few frames per second that's far more than 11 megabit/s. [1] https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html
    - sudosysgen 6y ago
      Human vision is more complicated than that, there is some "compression" happening at the eye. But yes, it's almost certainly more than 11 megabits, more likely around a few dozen just for the eyes: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04954-5_7 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04954-5_...

Even in the terms of total human sensory input data rate, humans learn from a very tiny data set. 16 year old human has experienced only about 400 million wakeful seconds.

so_tired 6y ago

See my other comment > Humans get a hand crafted curriculum inputs, evolved over 1000s of iterations, in a near-optimal language encoding.

DavidSJ 6y ago

At what bitrate though? At 1 MB/s that’s 400 TB, which is nothing to sneeze at.

dane-pgp 6y ago
To give a sense of how accurate that estimate is, consider this reference: "In other words, the human body sends 11 million bits per second to the brain for processing, yet the conscious mind seems to be able to process only 50 bits per second." https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Physiology https://www.britannica.com/science/information-theory/Physio...
- DavidSJ 6y ago
  So quite accurate then, since 11Mb/s = 1.375MB/s. (The conscious mind, of course, is not where most of our learning from experience happens.)
- pmoriarty 6y ago
  I am very suspicious of the numbers and statistics quoted in this article, as there are no references cited for their claims, and no indication as to how they arrived at them.
- akiselev 6y ago
  That doesn't sound accurate. The human eye's resolution is in the tens if not hundreds of megapixels [1] with high sensitivity (meaning the compression isn't very lossy so the bits of information remain). Even if you assume only a few frames per second that's far more than 11 megabit/s. [1] https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html
  - sudosysgen 6y ago
    Human vision is more complicated than that, there is some "compression" happening at the eye. But yes, it's almost certainly more than 11 megabits, more likely around a few dozen just for the eyes: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04954-5_7 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04954-5_...