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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.
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?

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.
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.