Neanderpundit

yesterday’s post talked about the basics of vision, and the way the act of identifying an image can be somewhat simplified; Now I want to address Ed’s idea of Quantum computers, which is an inspired one.

Everything that takes place in a computer has to do with a 0, or a 1. All personal computers are made like this, and it hasn’t changed in years.

Not too far around the corner, are quantum computers, which will be able to deal with a lot more than just 0 and 1. Imagine a person who is paralyzed and can only move his eyeball. It can look left, and it can look right, and people can interpret that left and right as yes and no.

Now imagine that the person develops the ability to move his eye to multiple positions. he can look at a screen, and a camera can record the position of his eye. The screen can be full of letters, and he can look at each letter in turn.

Old way of communicating:

a? no
b? no
c? no
d? yes

the first letter is d

a? no
b? no
c? no
d? no
e? no
f? no
g? no

all the way to
r? yes

the first letter is D, the second is R
until the poor bastard spells “Drink” by which time he has died of thirst.

With the letterboard, the person can swivel his eye to “D_R_I_N_K” in a few seconds. Replace the letters- or suppliment them- with words, and now you can get to pretty normal communications fairly quickly. This, by the way, is similar to the way Stephen Hawking communicates.

Now think of a computer that has the ability to process data not one bit at a time but by having the ability to look at multiple possibilities at once for every input. This isn’t exactly the way it works but the analogy is close enough for comparison. A piecre of data comes into a transistor and makes the transistor output either a 0 or a 1, a piece of data comes into a Quantum “transistor” (for lack of a better term) and can be any value between 0 and 1, or it can be 0, or 1, or 0 AND 1.

So like Ed says, instead of going to each of 100 rooms and answering the yes/no question of “Are my keys here’ each time until you find the keys, you can ask the Quantum computer ‘Which room are my keys in?” and it looks in all of them at once.

I think Ed is on to something here, in that this is the way the human mind works; I additionally think the distinction between memory and processor is blurred as to be almost nonexistent, and the same brain cells that store the information can also process it. Tis makes our whole wetware system a sort of a quantum supercomputer that can not only store, retrieve, and process information, but do so running at clock speeds that are astounding, when compared to the most powerful computers today.

But that’s changing.

Comes home after a good solid days work and in 90 degree heat with 3200 percent humidity,and ties into a 45 year old oak stump?

yeah, you’re looking at him.

I am about to the point where I chainsaw it under ground level but I stalled the chainsaw tonight. Bitch about it is, I have to wash off the dirt and crap so the blade doesn’t get stuck, and even with all that, I was stalling the saw. I took the blade apart but by the time I got that far in the skeeters were killing me and the sweat ran down my forehead like a river. So I came in. Lots more chainsawing to do tomorrow.

If you’re a particularly well endowed woman.
And you’re wearing nothing but a thin, white, T shirt, and shorts.
And you’re jogging in high heat, high humidity conditions, so your Tshirt is totally soaked.
And you bounce around a lot as you run.

You might want to keep to the side roads. It’s just too disruptive of traffic, okay?

Especially, don’t stand at intersections and run in place. Nobody moves!!