Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-1-2009

[andrewducker]

• Scientists Create Logic Gates from Living Neurons
  I'm not sure why we _want_ to do this, but heck, we're doing it.
  (tags: neuroscience logic)
• Cornify - Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand
  For all your sparkly-unicorn needs
  (tags: funny web unicorns rainbows)
• Marcus Brigstocke writes about his eating disorder
  (tags: health diet MarcusBrigstock)
• Google mistakes entire web for malware
  Julie and Padmini both asked me if I knew what was going on with this one.
  (tags: internet security google)

Comments

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

"So far, they've created AND gates, diodes (pictured above), and a threshold device that passes only signals whose strength exceeds a preset limit."

Truly it is the case that AI researchers have their heads firmly up their own arses...

[andrewducker]

Explain?

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

The device described in the emphasised part is, in fact, an artificial neuron. Built out of real neurons.

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely - I'm assuming that they're building towards something useful, but right now I don't really see the point.

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope they are doing it just because they can ;D

That said creating logic gates out of neurons is an odd way to be spending time - unless they take up less space then transistors and the like?

[andrewducker]

That's the thing - it's going to be vastly bigger.

I can't see what they're gaining!

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how long I played with those pretty little unicorns :p