[ExI] cool! locals create circuit board modeled on the human brain

[justin corwin]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:47 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> I don't know how much of this is the usual hype that sticks to this topic
> like moss on an oak, but if I find more info I will post it here.  I hope
> we can create some kind of standard specialized device such as the
> Neurogrid which would allow the geek masses to experiment.  spike
>

We talked about this at the last Neuroscience Group meeting at Crashspace,
consensus was that if you've got interesting neurology to simulate, these
FPAAs, and the ASICs that are likely coming to support them are going to be
very important if you expect to get anything done on a reasonable
timescale.

In related news, some local folks are trying to get together the
wherewithal to launch an open source compiler for quantum computing, now
that the hardware is available to people, in part to establish just what
the various devices are actually good at. D-wave has had a devil of a time
establishing that their "quantum optimizer" systems are actually superior
to just piling on classical processors.


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Justin Corwin
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