Comments on: Skibot http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748 Buffalo, bytes, biking, books, and bile. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:54:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BrianN http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748&cpage=1#comment-8068 BrianN Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:24:01 +0000 http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748#comment-8068 @Pitt I don't know much about it, I imagine it would be pretty hard to come up with. But I did see a talk by a guy who had taken all of the properties of the multiple layers of the visual cortex and had a series of chips fabricated with the same properties, with a CCD chip on top of the whole thing, so you could "see" what the different layers (of a cat brain) sees. Pretty cool. @Pitt

I don’t know much about it, I imagine it would be pretty hard to come up with. But I did see a talk by a guy who had taken all of the properties of the multiple layers of the visual cortex and had a series of chips fabricated with the same properties, with a CCD chip on top of the whole thing, so you could “see” what the different layers (of a cat brain) sees. Pretty cool.

]]> By: Pitt http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748&cpage=1#comment-8055 Pitt Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:08:35 +0000 http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748#comment-8055 @BrianN, Yeah, trying to digitize the analog so computers can deal with the information seems like a real bear. Yet, I haven't heard too much about analog computers. @BrianN,

Yeah, trying to digitize the analog so computers can deal with the information seems like a real bear. Yet, I haven’t heard too much about analog computers.

]]> By: BrianN http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748&cpage=1#comment-8042 BrianN Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:44:55 +0000 http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748#comment-8042 Yeah, I wish I were smart enough to study AI. It's actually pretty interesting after studying a little neuroscience. I think it's underappreciated just how analog the brain is. Also, the level of complexity in the hardware... This robot has one processor devoted to calculating visual info. Your brain has one "processor" devoted just to finding edges in an image, another to find motion etc. If you had all of these processors to grab out of a box, some of these problems would be a lot easier, I bet. Yeah, I wish I were smart enough to study AI. It’s actually pretty interesting after studying a little neuroscience. I think it’s underappreciated just how analog the brain is. Also, the level of complexity in the hardware… This robot has one processor devoted to calculating visual info. Your brain has one “processor” devoted just to finding edges in an image, another to find motion etc. If you had all of these processors to grab out of a box, some of these problems would be a lot easier, I bet.

]]> By: Adam http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748&cpage=1#comment-8040 Adam Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:41:54 +0000 http://www.roadflares.org/blog/?p=1748#comment-8040 I have seen this before. I think on discovery chanel. Pretty neet. I have seen this before. I think on discovery chanel. Pretty neet.

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