Looking inside NNs
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Re: Looking inside NNs
Already in 1991 at the University department of VLSI design there were plans for creating specialized chips for neural networks.
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Re: Looking inside NNs
True, and several companies were working on it at that time, somehow it never came from the ground. Maybe nVidia will release a consumer GPU with tensor cores this summer, but I doubt it. The 'Titan V' is a little bit too expensive to my taste, i'd rather spend my money on a 16 or 32 core machine with a bunch of memory.Henk wrote:Already in 1991 at the University department of VLSI design there were plans for creating specialized chips for neural networks.
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Re: Looking inside NNs
The name for this illness is fun. At least for me.Henk wrote:Is there a name for this illness spending too large amounts of money on useless hardware and software like we have a name for people eating too less (anorexia) or eating too much (obese).
Most efficient is buying old hardware and software working fine for almost no money and disable any updates.
I also agree with the second conjecture. I buy old machines on e-bay with gobs of cores and RAM for a cheap price. But beware, server machine are really noisy so you have to plan for that.
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