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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:33:38 +1000
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On 18/08/2024 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:14:51 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> "john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:dta1cj1f3pudq93ard2o2ve4dadero917e@4ax.com...
>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 06:26:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a sunny day (Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:07:52 -0700) it happened john larkin
>>>> <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in <06jvbjp36khao0m5ot65a1o1krricoasre@4ax.com>:
>>>>
>>>>>>> It's just code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not any more it isn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> Those giant computer networks don't run code?
>>>>>
>>>>>> Your lack of understanding is a handicap.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your lack of imagination ditto.
>>>>
>>>> Well, there is a bit of your lack of understanding
>>>
>>> So you understand how brains work?
>>
>> Why is it necessary to understand how brains work?
>>
>> I don't know much about AlphaGo.
>> I doubt it can explain how it works.
>> But it obviously does work.
>>
>>>
>>> Where are images stored,
>>
>> Who cares?
>> Likely they are distributed throughout a brain in ways that it is not necessary for anyone or anything to understand.
> 
> Ignorance is appealing.

As you persistently remind us.

> But electronic design - our topic here - benefits from both
> imagination and understanding.

Not that you've got much of either.

> I find it helpful, when designing things, to have a working model of
> how my brain works.

It would be more helpful if you realised how badly your brain works.

> What have you designed lately? Tell us about it.

You first. You do seem to think that you design circuits, but you don't 
tell us about them in the kind of way that suggests that you actually 
designed them.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney