Here  this:

http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/viewFile/327/315/2090

https://developingwritersdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ee98c-topo_rhizome2.jpg




On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Andi,
>
> Ben has a good answer, and to emphasize, let me add this:   Think of the
> atomspace as being a collection of trees.  The atoms are the nodes in the
> tree.  Any one atom can appear in many trees, and so the whole thing is in
> fact tangled into a big matt, like a rhizome
> https://www.google.com/search?q=rhizome&tbm=isch
>
> The pattern matcher starts at one atom, and walks the rhizome, exploring
> nearest neighbors, until all the entire neighborhood is explored (and a
> match is found, or some other (local) computation is performed).
>
> The problem is that the atoms are scattered randomly through RAM, so when
> the nearest neighbor walk happens, random locations in RAM get visited.
> I'm guessing that there is a lot of cache-miss going on two:  If you have,
> say, a CPU cache that is 8-way, 4-associative, then you could have maybe 32
> atoms in the cache, but the chance that the 33rd atom will accidentally be
> in one of the existing cache lines is just about zero, and so the graph
> walk will have a 99.9% cache-miss rate.   (most graphs that get searched
> have more that 32 atoms in them. )
>
>
> Hmm, I have an idea -- I guess the atomsapce *could* keep track of
> individual connected components  (create a bag of trees, which are
> connected by one or more atoms) -- any given search is guaranteed to stay
> in just one bag, and so maybe one could download the entire bag to the gpu
> before starting a search.   Could work if the bags are small enough to fit
> in GPU ram.
>
> Maybe allocation could be changed to improve cache locality: allocate
> atoms so that they are more likely to be on the same cache line if they are
> also connected.  But this becomes a hard, fiddly computer-science problem...
>
> --linas
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Andi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>> I do not want to disturb the ongoing work so an answer to this question
>> is not urgent,
>> but it will help me during my investigations within the next month.
>>
>> *What in the hell could prevent me to look at the Atomspace as a certain
>> kind of Neuronal Network?*
>>
>> Please don't tell me:"Because it is a hypergraph" haha....
>>
>> One of my aims is, try to port the whole thing, or some parts, to
>> hardware. Maybe a bunch of some GPU's, PLD's and a CPU can do it. It seems
>> that they are designing some interesting machines for Deep Learning - so
>> maybe even nothing new has to be invented..
>>
>> For first steps I think it should at least be possible to use some
>> GPU-power to do some work in parallel or is there really a theoretical
>> barrier for paralleling some work that I cannot see in the moment?
>>
>> Please don't be afraid,  I know what kind of challenging task this is and
>> would carry it on my own back. But maybe it is not so much work if the
>> right approach is found...
>> At least I want to investigate this - so any red lights blinking?
>>
>> --Andi
>>
>>
>> Am Sonntag, 24. April 2016 07:07:25 UTC+2 schrieb Ben Goertzel:
>>>
>>> Indeed this is not an OpenCoggy question, but some of us may be able
>>> to help... is this dynamic data or instantaneous data you're trying to
>>> classify?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:46 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > I have a dataset of mocap (motion caption) positions as vectors which
>>> I am
>>> > going to train a DNN for this dataset.
>>> > the sample data would be like a 140-D dimension vector.
>>> > Is it possible to train a CNN for this kind of data? I have
>>> > how to use convolution layers for this kind of data as kernels are
>>> e.g.5x5
>>> > while the data is  a vector?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > If I make the data in a form of matrix, is it possible to train a
>>> pretrained
>>> > CNN e.g. alexnet for this dataset?
>>> >
>>> > Best
>>> > Majid
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