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> The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working Except when speed is part of the definition of working. For ex
by naveen99 8y ago
> The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working
Except when speed is part of the definition of working. For example deep learning. The correct implementation was not enough until the hardware was fast enough.
- mmt 8y ago> The correct implementation was not enough until the hardware was fast enough. This doesn't refute his argument, which I read as being, essentially, against performance optimization of software during initial construction. Knuth famously bemoaned premature optimizations, as well.
- dwaltrip 8y agoSpeed isn't in the definition of "working" for deep learning. Speed is an implementation detail. Perhaps a very critical one, but still an implementation detail. One can evaluate the success of a deep learning program (e.g. "is it working?") without knowing how much processing power it used.