gursikh
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Comment · 15 years ago
(This is just for kicks.)
Assuming the space required to run watson halves every two years and v:: of the human brain is v1 = 1500cm³, and Σv of Watson's servers = v2 = 90 x (17.5cm x 44.0cm x 73.0xcm) = 5.05e6 cm^3.
So Watson will be the size of a human brain in t = - ln(v1/v2)/ln(2).
We're looking at 11.7 years. So, 2023.
* Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28artificial_intelligen...
"Watson is made up of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers..."
* Source: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/750/specs.html
"175 mm x 440 mm x 730 mm"
Comment · 16 years ago
"Comic dogs don't talk in Times New Roman." - Creator of Comic Sans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qefD5YHPeEM
Touche, but then lawyers, doctors, police officers, senatorial aides, and cancer researchers shouldn't be talking in Comic Sans.
Comment · 16 years ago
A good way to catch up on what's new while we wait on the Mozilla / P2PU course to start up.
Landing Page: http://p2pu.org/webcraft/html5
Course syllabus: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/courses/html5#HTML5.2...
Comment · 16 years ago
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...
Here's Scott Wilson's update form China in which he walks through the process of getting the watches manufactured.
Integration with nike+ and perhaps a good set of bluetooth headphones make this the ideal running "watch".
Comment · 16 years ago
I'd love to see this technology applied to augmented reading / writing (i.e. look up any word/person/place on a printed page).