--- On Thu, 11/27/08, Philip Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/27 Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > This is probably not a serious problem for neural > networks because the connections could be written in > parallel. It's actually much faster than the write times > in the human brain, probably 10^4 seconds in the hippocampus > and 10^8 seconds in the cortex. > > 10^8 seconds is 3 years! I think that number's wrong.
Yeah, I think it is closer to 10^9 seconds. Landauer estimates human long term memory at 10^9 bits and a learning rate of 2 bits per second. http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/1986v10/i04/p0477p0493/MAIN.PDF -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com