The inconsistency therefore seems to be the result of different sorts of calculation happening in the two cases.Of course, that does not answer the ultimate question of why evolution has equipped the brain this way.
John thinks about how many times a day this quick but critical calculation happens in the minds of parents who are trying to feed their families with very limited resources.
The sound of 20 quadrillion calculations happening every second is dangerously loud.
Because the calculations happen in the cloud (on Amazon's EC2 platform), spreadsheets can be extremely large and complex.
PowerNap is installed on the APs; clients are completely unaware of these changes and calculations happening on the AP side, and thus, the proposed system is transparent from the clients' perspective.
These calculations happen only once per probes set design, and do not depend in any way on the observed intensities.
As Shephard observes, compensatory pensions - "a nightmare of complexity and calculation" - happened to be Franz Kafka's line of work.
Barrat worries that "without meticulous, countervailing instructions, a self-aware, self-improving, goal-seeking system will go to lengths we'd deem ridiculous to fulfill its goals," even, perhaps, commandeering all the world's energy in order to maximize whatever calculation it happened to be interested in.
Here is how the "naked political calculation" actually happened, in late 2008.
It's not a calculation that happens just once, of course, since new threats and new capabilities are always emerging.
And that is a calculation that happens entirely behind closed doors – and one for which the very people assessing the applications are effectively blindfolded.
