On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:54 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the reason we've made so little progress is precisely because > we're computationally bound. Many solutions are suddenly viable if > everybody has access to nine orders of magnitude more storage and > more performance.
This is painfully true in my experience. My day job involves the machine learning / image and speech recognition space. We have thousands of cores, and we process petabytes of data a month. We need another order of magnitude of processing power to get to the point where we could see the sort of accuracy necessary to make it generally useful. This is not to say it isn't useful in special cases right now, but the limiting problem is having enough parallelism. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
