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Agree generally. Except being unimpressed unless performance is achieved on sub Google scale hardware. Today's Google supermachine is tomorrow's raspberry pie
by dquail 10y ago
Agree generally.
Except being unimpressed unless performance is achieved on sub Google scale hardware.
Today's Google supermachine is tomorrow's raspberry pie. No need to artificially constrain our bounds. There is, after all, the inevitability of Moores law.
- dkarapetyan 10y agoMoore's law has been dead for a while now. Most of the chip in your phone is powered off because otherwise it would burn up. Highly recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9mzmvhwMqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9mzmvhwMqw
- dquail 10y agoInteresting. I've yet to hear a Moores law is dead argument, so perhaps I should watch the video before commenting further. But the fact that most of the chip is turned off, doesn't falsify the fact that most of it still exists. Cooling it properly is a separate problem independent of computation no?
- tekni5 10y agoThe talk mentions that there is a physical law to how many cores you can add to a CPU before it becomes useless, even with parallel computing.
- tekni5 10y agoVery fascinating talk, and easy to understand. Have there been any solutions proposed, in particular to the limitations of adding extra cores.
- DennisP 10y agoTrue, but even without Moore's Law, using neuromorphic chips instead of general-purpose CPU/GPUs would likely be much more efficient. In the meantime it makes sense to use large server farms to emulate candidate neuromorphic architectures.
- socmag 10y agoReally thanks for posting this video. Very cool to see Sophie Wilson talking so elequently and with obvious authority on a subject I and many others deeply care about. Great!
- typon 10y ago> Today's Google supermachine is tomorrow's raspberry pie No it isnt. I really hope people stop spreading this myth.