Neuron-Level Simulation Surpasses Cat Brains
Ars Techina reports:
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at IBM have presented a paper at the SC09 supercomputing conference describing a milestone in cognitive computing: the group’s massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, now has the ability to simulate a brain with about 4.5 percent the cerebral cortex capacity of a human brain, and significantly more brain [...]
Afghanistan Links
Michelle Goldberg ponders the Feminist Case for War.
Matthew Yglesias writes about the current research on birth control and fertility rates (featured in The Economist recently) and how it applies to Afghanistan.
