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ELI7: WebGL crunches numbers fast to end up as pixels, WebGPU crunches numbers fast to end up as numbers again.

• Yoric 9y ago
  Got it, thanks for the clear explanation. So this means that we'll soon have web ads mining bitcoins using our GPUs, right? :)
  • noiv 9y ago
    Well, that's one thing. Google "Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks" for another.
    • arnioxux 9y ago
      Already happening! This came up a few days ago: Tensorflow implemented with webgl: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14894653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14894653
  • devrandomguy 9y ago
    That was already a thing, for a while. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0 Can't tell if they are "honest" people who closed shop when they realized how bad their idea was, or if they just threw smoke and went dark.