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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:33:38 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

>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.

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