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I imagine that’s a massive “depends on what you want them to do” Add numbers, no of course not, write a book though…
by marricks 3y ago
I imagine that’s a massive “depends on what you want them to do”
Add numbers, no of course not, write a book though…
- zmgsabst 3y agoIs it true even in that example? 251MJ is what 2000kcal diet for a month works out to. That’s also 2.5kW for 100 servers for 1000 seconds. Is it true that a human would write a better book in a month than a well-designed algorithm? Maybe.
- marricks 3y agoIf you want to go with imaginary algorithms that don’t exist yet (or possibly ever) sure such an imaginary computer or system could do it more efficiently.
- bmitc 3y agoWhat would design the algorithm?
- Teever 3y agoHumans can't eat just anything though, and there's a tremendous amount of energy embodied in human food, including growing, storing, transporting and cookihg it.
- Engineering-MD 3y agoAnd is also true for computers in different ways. Human food comes included in the natural Environment, electricity requires some degree of commercial mining.
- vasco 3y ago> Is it true that a human would write a better book in a month than a well-designed algorithm? The "well designed" plays a big role in this sentence. At some point you're just writing the book with a different "pen".