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Old 10-26-2017, 05:36 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Computers aren't instantaneous. Simple tasks can be carried out quickly: complex tasks like image processing and threat detection & recognition take a lot longer.
Von Neumann architecture is generalized and has bottlenecks and bursty performance. But ASICs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applic...grated_circuit) use Fast Fourier transforms on arrays. Indistinguishable from magic.

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