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Google is a big place, with diverse opinions. Even better, it encourages updating one's opinion in face of new evidence. GPUs have proven themselves cost-effect
by pacala 11y ago
Google is a big place, with diverse opinions. Even better, it encourages updating one's opinion in face of new evidence. GPUs have proven themselves cost-effective in tackling a number of vision problems [and others], Google has those problems, so the opinion was updated and the problems were solved in a cost-effective manner.
- varelse 11y agoThat... Was not... My experience there... But kudos to the deep learning guys for overcoming that potential energy barrier NVIDIA couldn't surmount on their own...
- Florin_Andrei 11y agoTo me, processing lots and lots of data with "relatively simple" algorithms spells GPU, pretty much. Machine learning seemed destined to bump into GPUs sooner or later.
- varelse 11y agoWhy yes... https://github.com/BIDData/BIDMach https://github.com/BIDData/BIDMach