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A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not too long ago it would take a room like that to mimic a fraction of the power in my watch. Heck, I’ve got more power on my wrist than it took to get to the moon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

By orders of magnitude if it's a smartwatch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s a BangleJS. So, not super powerful, but I can program it myself and it has gps, gyro, Bluetooth, and two weeks of battery (assuming I’m not using that stuff constantly.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A Casio nothing-watch has more power than the Apollo computers, so yeah, definitely many orders of magnitude for the BangleJS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A Casio nothing-watch has more power than the Apollo computers

Does it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup. One of those cards that plays a tune when you open it is more powerful than the Apollo computer. Apollo was only working on 4kb of RAM and 74kb of ROM.

If I had been in charge of figuring out how to make that work everyone would definitely be dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Houston we have no idea what our trajectory is and it's just playing happy birthday over and over.