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MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-again-for-four-times-faster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MIT is claiming they can make the Internet faster if we let computers redesign TCP/IP instead of coding it by hand. They used machine learning to design a version of TCP that's twice the speed and causes half the delay, even with modern bufferbloated networks. They also claim it's more 'fair.' The researchers have put up a lengthy FAQ and source code where they admit they don't know why the system works, only that it goes faster than normal TCP."

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  1. I'd be wary. by Fishchip · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is how things like Skynet get started.

    1. Re:I'd be wary. by Sqr(twg) · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's easy to prevent.

    2. Re:I'd be wary. by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

      At the very least i'd be doing a grep for things like "kill all humans" in the source code.

    3. Re:I'd be wary. by jma05 · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's mostly unnecessary

  2. Uh Oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    they admit they don't know why the system works, only that it goes faster than normal TCP

    And so it begins...

  3. MIT Woes by OneFangCat · · Score: 1, Funny

    To bad for MIT they cant just cry to an overzealous DA if the computer gets out of control.

  4. treason? by Xicor · · Score: 1, Funny

    would it be considered treason for MIT to develop skynet and have it destroy the US?