Did you know that IEEE has a produced an ISO standard covering the knowledge required for Software Engineer?
I'm sure that many people are mis-advertising themselves, but you also have a specific definition of what you consider an "Engineer" to be that is narrower than IEEE definitions (I'm referring to this comment: "it is not engineering").
"The PowerPC 970 is derived from POWER4. It lacks some server oriented features, but does have an AltiVec unit. The 970 and its descendants are used by Apple and IBM and some high end embedded applications."
Minor note: PowerPC was the line of processors used in the Apple computers. POWER (as in Power7) is the server line of processors with it's roots in the as/400 servers back in the 90's. IBM didn't do a very good job of making that distinction clear.
Instead, I would direct you to our privately funded project to get to Mars! We are just bringing it all together at this point, can't give you actual numbers of dollars raised, and our website isn't up yet, but man it's going to be awesome!
Your point is valid if the genotype to phenotype mapping is a simple mapping to neuron type, connection type, weights, etc. However, we clearly have effective crossover in humans, which means there can be a genotype to phenotype mapping that operates at more of a functional level. It's an interesting and difficult problem.
I rarely read my notes again, but just using my brain to write them down helped understand and remember. When I didn't take notes the info didn't stick as well.
The parent poster gave an example of editing a text file and you responded that the text file shouldn't exist. Given that the text file was specifically his example, why shouldn't it exist?
What possible reason could you have to want to be locked into one GPU vendor?
The reason is that today CUDA has a headstart and is more mature. Eventually things will probably shift to OpenCL but that takes time and people don't want to sacrifice features today.
It's all a continuum and depends on the problem. For problems with enough parallelism that the GPU's are a good choice, then they are faster. For a completely serial problem, then the current fastest single core is faster than the both the supercomputer and the GPU's.
Old-timers never pronounced it "squeal" or "sequel"
It's a big world you know. Myself and co-workers (at a large ERP company) have called it "SQL", "Sequel", "Squeal", "Slow query language" and a few other names, starting in the late 80's and early 90's.
I personally have been doing this as well as the same thing with mutations for 6 years in an artificial life/neural net simulation. And I'm just a hobbyist (many researchers have and are doing all kinds of this type of stuff). It's definitely a powerful technique and fun to read about their success, but hardly new.
I was thinking of that chip when I read this story about Intel, they are probably announcing it now to reduce interest in tile64.
Unfortunately, the tile64 chip only costs $435 if you order 10,000 (and the dev tools are not cheap). I hope the costs come down quickly because I could make use of one of those.
as/400's have had built in batteries since 1988. They provide about 20 minutes of processing time which allows you to gracefully bring the machine down.
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Did you know that IEEE has a produced an ISO standard covering the knowledge required for Software Engineer?
I'm sure that many people are mis-advertising themselves, but you also have a specific definition of what you consider an "Engineer" to be that is narrower than IEEE definitions (I'm referring to this comment: "it is not engineering").
The district says they've only used on stolen laptops
1) It doesn't matter why they used it, it's illegal if it was used in anyone's home.
2) The opportunity for abuse is huge and they absolutely should have informed the parents in advance.
When I was programming we did every project in 5 lines of code, or less, period. Anything more than that was just fancy stuff!
Yes, on review correct. I was thinking of when they created the 64 bit server processors.
Because this statement was made: "but they're roughly at par on performance", which isn't correct.
Your point is valid, but that isn't what I was responding to.
"The PowerPC 970 is derived from POWER4. It lacks some server oriented features, but does have an AltiVec unit. The 970 and its descendants are used by Apple and IBM and some high end embedded applications."
Power procs=32, cores=64
Itanium procs=64, cores=128
So double the Itaniums almost gets you to where Power is.
Minor note: PowerPC was the line of processors used in the Apple computers. POWER (as in Power7) is the server line of processors with it's roots in the as/400 servers back in the 90's. IBM didn't do a very good job of making that distinction clear.
Instead, I would direct you to our privately funded project to get to Mars! We are just bringing it all together at this point, can't give you actual numbers of dollars raised, and our website isn't up yet, but man it's going to be awesome!
Your point is valid if the genotype to phenotype mapping is a simple mapping to neuron type, connection type, weights, etc. However, we clearly have effective crossover in humans, which means there can be a genotype to phenotype mapping that operates at more of a functional level. It's an interesting and difficult problem.
The true Turing test
I rarely read my notes again, but just using my brain to write them down helped understand and remember. When I didn't take notes the info didn't stick as well.
are trained to find the more deadly items, like more than 3 ounces of toothpaste or shampoo.
don't Monty me on this deal!
The parent poster gave an example of editing a text file and you responded that the text file shouldn't exist. Given that the text file was specifically his example, why shouldn't it exist?
There are companies that perform this exact service (VertexInc.com is one) and have since the 80's.
Solutions to this problem have existed for a loooong time. I have developed consumer systems that used Vertex in the late 80's and 90's.
Whether it's right or not is a different question, but it is not any more of a burden than any other service that businesses typically use.
What possible reason could you have to want to be locked into one GPU vendor?
The reason is that today CUDA has a headstart and is more mature. Eventually things will probably shift to OpenCL but that takes time and people don't want to sacrifice features today.
It's all a continuum and depends on the problem. For problems with enough parallelism that the GPU's are a good choice, then they are faster. For a completely serial problem, then the current fastest single core is faster than the both the supercomputer and the GPU's.
Old-timers never pronounced it "squeal" or "sequel"
It's a big world you know. Myself and co-workers (at a large ERP company) have called it "SQL", "Sequel", "Squeal", "Slow query language" and a few other names, starting in the late 80's and early 90's.
I personally have been doing this as well as the same thing with mutations for 6 years in an artificial life/neural net simulation. And I'm just a hobbyist (many researchers have and are doing all kinds of this type of stuff). It's definitely a powerful technique and fun to read about their success, but hardly new.
I was thinking of that chip when I read this story about Intel, they are probably announcing it now to reduce interest in tile64.
Unfortunately, the tile64 chip only costs $435 if you order 10,000 (and the dev tools are not cheap). I hope the costs come down quickly because I could make use of one of those.
64 threads processed in semi-round-robin fashion is not the same as 48 cores. Different strengths and weaknesses.
as/400's have had built in batteries since 1988. They provide about 20 minutes of processing time which allows you to gracefully bring the machine down.
Not to rain on Gene's parade, but the "communicator" has been in use since the smoke signal.