"the test hardware, operating system, compiler, and programming language implementing the decompressor must be general purpose, available to the public, and not specifically designed to improve the ranking on this benchmark. (A Win32 or Linux executable or C/C++ program meets this requirement)."
"There is no restriction on compression/decompression time, memory, or disk space." Matt seems to say no restriction, yet it must be publicly available....I think you should specify clearly here what surpasses "publicly available", because only some can afford the best GPU or beowulf/ supercomputer. It seems Matt is against the 'let's see who has the most cash' contest since he disallows testing such machine even if only 1 such machine exist. Beowulfs can cost a lot or be hard to use and give a lot of performance increase I think. The best GPU may not give much more an increase than a common GPU. In this sense, the goal of the contest would be using the common buyable computer then, simply to make sure you can and do use what you can practically. The GPU use should cost ex. under 1,000USD. This is perhaps more useful than the 'who has more cash contest'. Do we still need a such contest as well? Not really, you can just check how much money some person has or what they have done/ own. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te9633f76cfbb22e5-M2ef1d712bcc58d2afb9ad854 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
