/sci/ - Science & Math

now we wait 10 years for 7777777

>>6833333
>33333
>piccolo partition

IBM cracks open a new era of computing with brain-like chip: 4096 cores, 1 million neurons, 5.4 billion transistors
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187612-ibm-cracks-open-a-new-era-of-computing-with-brain-like-chip-4096-cores-1-million-neurons-5-4-billion-transistors
Scientists at IBM Research have created by far the most advanced neuromorphic (brain-like) computer chip to date. The chip, called TrueNorth, consists of 1 million programmable neurons and 256 million programmable synapses across 4096 individual neurosynaptic cores. Built on Samsung’s 28nm process and with a monstrous transistor count of 5.4 billion, this is one of the largest and most advanced computer chips ever made. Perhaps most importantly, though, TrueNorth is incredibly efficient: The chip consumes just 72 milliwatts at max load, which equates to around 400 billion synaptic operations per second per watt — or about 176,000 times more efficient than a modern CPU running the same brain-like workload, or 769 times more efficient than other state-of-the-art neuromorphic approaches. Yes, IBM is now a big step closer to building a brain on a chip.

>>6681941
Ebola in NYC
http://nypost.com/2014/08/04/nyc-hospital-testing-patient-for-ebola/

Are we mad to have let a maverick scientist create a virus that could wipe out 400 million people?

Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka created a new strain of 2009 swine flu virus
If virus escaped it could kill up to a billion people - there is no known vaccine
Professor Kawaoka argues that it is part of valuable scientific research
Others in the field have called the experiment 'exceedingly dangerous'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2678732/Are-mad-let-maverick-scientist-create-virus-wipe-400-million-people.html#ixzz36O7zYX3M

I am Ron Paul: Ask Me Anything.

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