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bioemerl  ·  3246 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Memory capacity of human brain is 10 times more than previously thought

    The Salk discovery could help computer scientists build ultraprecise, but energy-efficient, computers

How? They discovered that there can be 26 rather than 2 different states of synapse sizes, they didn't discover a way to create a computer that uses this to it's advantage.





iza  ·  3245 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I think they overstated their findings somewhat, they don't have anything concrete for this. I presume they meant by modelling a computer based on this new neuron model in some abstract sense.