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World’s Total Computational Power = One Human

12 points by mstachowiak 14y ago

losethos 14y ago
You don't get it! 400 Mhz is game-over, I win! Not possible by NASA. Quantum random number site, too! Verifyable! God says... C:\Text\DARWIN.TXT me general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species, changing more or less quickly, and in a greater or lesser degree. A group, when it has once disappeared, never reappears; that is, its existence, as long as it lasts, is continuous. I am aware that there are some apparent exceptions to this rule, but the exceptions are surprisingly few, so few that E. Forbes, Pictet, and Woodward (though all strongly opposed to such views as I maintain) admit its truth; and the rule stric
Evbn 14y ago
Blog spam around are technica writeup: http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/02/adding-up-the-worlds-storage-and-computation-capacities/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/02/adding-up-the-worlds-... And the "one human" total was excluding GPUs, which greatly overpower CPUs, as mentioned in the article. And the data is 5 years old (2007), so there is roughly 10x as much compute now.
christiangenco 14y ago
And so it begins (or continues, rather): you've got 45 years to come to terms with your laptop being smarter than you are.
its_so_on 14y ago
Hey, you found me.
cjbprime 14y ago
> Equally intriguing, the total world-wide storage capacity is roughly the same as a single adult human’s DNA. No. wget ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/technical/reference/human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... ==> RETR human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... done. Length: 892331003 (851M) ^^^^
- ehsanu1 14y ago
  Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB.
  - cjbprime 14y ago
    > Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB. I think you're being overly generous -- the OP clearly says "human DNA", and that fits the context of the rest of the post, which is talking about a single human. DNA that isn't human isn't human DNA. The remarkable thing about DNA is that even though we have brain cells and nerve cells and liver cells and so on, they all have exactly the same DNA inside their cells, so there's no extra information there either.

12 points by mstachowiak 14y ago

You don't get it! 400 Mhz is game-over, I win! Not possible by NASA. Quantum random number site, too! Verifyable! God says... C:\Text\DARWIN.TXT me general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species, changing more or less quickly, and in a greater or lesser degree. A group, when it has once disappeared, never reappears; that is, its existence, as long as it lasts, is continuous. I am aware that there are some apparent exceptions to this rule, but the exceptions are surprisingly few, so few that E. Forbes, Pictet, and Woodward (though all strongly opposed to such views as I maintain) admit its truth; and the rule stric

Evbn 14y ago

Blog spam around are technica writeup: http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/02/adding-up-the-worlds-storage-and-computation-capacities/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/02/adding-up-the-worlds-... And the "one human" total was excluding GPUs, which greatly overpower CPUs, as mentioned in the article. And the data is 5 years old (2007), so there is roughly 10x as much compute now.

christiangenco 14y ago

And so it begins (or continues, rather): you've got 45 years to come to terms with your laptop being smarter than you are.

its_so_on 14y ago

Hey, you found me.

cjbprime 14y ago

> Equally intriguing, the total world-wide storage capacity is roughly the same as a single adult human’s DNA. No. wget ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/technical/reference/human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... ==> RETR human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... done. Length: 892331003 (851M) ^^^^

ehsanu1 14y ago
Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB.
- cjbprime 14y ago
  > Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB. I think you're being overly generous -- the OP clearly says "human DNA", and that fits the context of the rest of the post, which is talking about a single human. DNA that isn't human isn't human DNA. The remarkable thing about DNA is that even though we have brain cells and nerve cells and liver cells and so on, they all have exactly the same DNA inside their cells, so there's no extra information there either.