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I thought this was going to be about silicon lottery. Key points: * For a new software approach to be recognized as valuable, it needs appropriate hardware to
by MayeulC 6y ago
I thought this was going to be about silicon lottery.
Key points:
* For a new software approach to be recognized as valuable, it needs appropriate hardware to exist at the right time
* As Moore's law fades away, we can no longer rely on steady performance improvements for generalist CPUs, so specialized HW will make a comeback
An interesting note:
> Hardware is only economically vi-able if the lifetime of the use case lasts more than 3 years
I admit I stopped reading at section 5.
- marcosdumay 6y agoThe next point is that, given the path dependency, the odds of the current choices for machine learning being optional are very low and the evidence is preponderantly against it. I think that was mean to be the main point of the article, but I do think section 5 is way more interesting than 6.
- KorfmannArno 6y agooptional or optimal?
- marcosdumay 6y agoOptimal That wasn't the only type there, but this one makes a lot of damage.
- KorfmannArno 6y agoLol, you're on a roll. Hard to type eh...