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Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters 189

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 16, 2008 @03:42PM from the please-go-outside dept.

If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."

Comment Re:Where is the content? (Score 2, Interesting) 454

by goat_of_wisdom on Monday June 06, 2005 @06:09AM (#12734129) Attached to: Effort to Create Virtual Brain Begins

This is an excellent point. It's one thing to simulate a large number of neurons and an even larger number of synapses, but this is only the first small step toward simulating a real cortical column.

In order to simulate a mammalian cortical column, the weight and bias of each synapse needs determined (experimentally or by simulation through trial and error) relative to the other synapses in that column (and there are probably tens of millions of synapses in a column consisting of 70,000 neurons).

This doesn't even take into account the fact that we don't really know how the input to or output from most of these columns is structured.

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