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jobeemar
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jobeemar
18y ago
In the frame of reference of the ants, all clocks agree with one another. This means that timing is global within their FOR. There is no problem in determining simultaneity because there is only one FOR in question. And even in multiple FOR
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jobeemar
18y ago
It's inherent in the speed of light in their local environment. Physics 101.
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Animal, a Biologically Inspired AI Program that Tries to Learn Chess from Scratch
(rebelscience.org)
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18y ago
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jobeemar
18y ago
He has a parallel quicksort example on his "relevant links" section. He seems to be saying that software should work pretty much like hardware. http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/quicksort.htm
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jobeemar
18y ago
I don't think you really read the article since the author never said that parallelism is inefficient. He's saying, among other things, that decomposition (which you seem to favor) is not the right way to design parallel programs. In other