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Sunday, April 25, 2010

  • ...As of November 2009, the world?s fastest supercomputer was the Cray Jaguar located at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, operating at 1.8 petaflops (1.8 x 1015 flops). Unlike human brain capacity, supercomputing capacity has been growing exponentially. In June 2005, the world?s fastest supercomputer was the IBM Blue Gene/L at Los Alamos National Laboratory, running at 0.1 petaflops. In less than five years, the Jaguar represents an order of magnitude increase, the latest culmination of capacity doublings each few years. Broader Perspective

    tags: intelligence, supercomputing, computation, AZB, grue, processing

  • Robert J. Richards reviews WHAT DARWIN GOT WRONG. Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. xxii + 264 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. $26.

    tags: Darwin, evolution, grue


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