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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by vonnik on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:49PM (#12309694)
Why use it, if it locks you in?
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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by xadhominemx on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:58PM (#12310148)
If you're a hobbyist, why would you care about lock in?
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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by lmm on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:06AM (#12311806)
I care about being able to carry on doing my hobby stuff 5 or 10 years from now. With NVidia I can at least be confident that as long as my graphics card keeps working (which feels like something under my control, unlike Google shutting down their products) I can keep running my code on it.
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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by flamedoge on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:05AM (#12310375)
Because you don't have control over what Google does. They may kill TPU altogether leaving your work irrelevant.
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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by willvarfar on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:45AM (#12310625)
You don't have control over what nvidia, intel or the rest of them either.

If you want to get your 'feet wet', then why bother?

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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by flamedoge on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:47PM (#12386574)
Because they have client facing products and backward compatibility is important to clients.
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Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning by hyperbovine on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:26AM (#12310420)
Hobbies come, hobbies go.
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