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bitL | karma 10019 | avg karma 2.09 · 2018-05-30 17:56:03

I wish GPUs were 1000x faster... Then I could do some crazy magic with Deep Learning instead of waiting weeks for training to be finished...

pizza | karma 13392 | avg karma 3.99 · 2018-05-30 18:03:32+00:00

somebody is working on photonics-based ML http://www.lighton.io/our-technology

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · 2018-05-31 13:56:46+00:00

That's more a matter of budget than anything else. If you problem is valuable enough spending the money in a short time-frame rather than waiting for weeks can be well worth the investment.

bitL | karma 10019 | avg karma 2.09 · 2018-05-31 16:14:19+00:00

I cannot fit a cluster of GPUs into a phone where I could make magic happen real-time though :(

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · 2018-05-31 16:52:37+00:00

Hm. Offload the job to a remote cluster? Or is comms then the limiting factor?

bitL | karma 10019 | avg karma 2.09 · 2018-05-31 19:50:37

It won't give us that snappy feeling; imagine learning things in milliseconds and immediately displaying them on your phone.

Florin_Andrei | karma 6700 | avg karma 2.16 · 2018-05-31 20:28:19+00:00

Jeez. That would be faster than protein-and-water-based systems, which up until now are still the faster learners.