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What's with these "throwaway" accounts saying stuff is "laughable" without an opinion to back it up? Can you explain what is laughable here?
by jamesrom 4y ago
What's with these "throwaway" accounts saying stuff is "laughable" without an opinion to back it up?
Can you explain what is laughable here?
- mrks_hy 4y agoNot OP, but the premise is just too naive. He's coming from a compsci deep learning angle and thus arrives at a completely flawed model for how neurons interact and "compute". Not that we have a model that even explains this theoretically yet, but it makes no real sense to talk of Brain FLOPs in the way he does. It's borderline cringeworthy that this is upvoted so high.
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoThe dismissal is cringeworthy, the human cortex only consumes 0.17 watts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.057927v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.23.057927v1.... Which put a very low upper limit to the number of simultaneous neurons that can be activated. Considering it as FLOPs or not is irrelevant to this fundamental limitation and that is the point you are all ridiculously missing
- d_tr 4y agoThe amount of complexity casually thrown away. The premises and the conclusions. The fact that this is on the front page.
- throwaway4good 4y agoThat we are discussing it; the only reason this blurp is here on top of hn is the author and his cult following.