Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-25 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:11 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> > We are now approaching a point where we can have supercomputers with the >> > same estimated computational power of a human brain, but we are very far >> > from replicating its capabilities. > >

Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-25 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 Telmo Menezes wrote: > We are now approaching a point where we can have supercomputers with the > same estimated computational power of a human brain, but we are very far > from replicating its capabilities. Very far? > Chess is a very narrow case > But being the best J

RE: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 3:33 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:16

Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
> -Chris > > -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes > Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:00 PM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supe

Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
decentralised architecture of the brain! Telmo. > -Chris > > > > -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes > Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:00 PM > To: everything-list@google

RE: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Chris de Morsella
Behalf Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:00 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > As I tried to comment in the other thread concerning chess: it's not

RE: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Chris de Morsella
Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:00 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > As I tried to comment in the other thread concerning chess: it's not >

Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > As I tried to comment in the other thread concerning chess: it's not just > about power, it's also about quality of coding. Just one fresh opening, a > novel variation or line in the mid game, a bug in the code, one position > false

Re: Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
As I tried to comment in the other thread concerning chess: it's not just about power, it's also about quality of coding. Just one fresh opening, a novel variation or line in the mid game, a bug in the code, one position falsely assessed, and all computing power in the universe will still lose that

Deep Blue vs The Tianhe-2 Supercomputer

2013-08-24 Thread John Clark
Suppose that in 1997 you had a very difficult problem to solve, so difficult that it would take Deep Blue, the supercomputer that beat the best human chess player in the world, 18 years to solve, what should you do? You'd do better to let Moore's law do all the heavy lifting and leave Deep Blue alo