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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by georgyo on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:31AM (#14399763)
Assuming 2000 calories/day, a human averages 97 Watts/hour.

Ke Jie is currently 19, so he has used an estimate of 670kWH for both his training set and playing his games.

Getting a machine to win that consumes less than 97W/H would be hard.

Taking a new machine and loading training data on it and having it win would be far less than 670kWH

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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:41AM (#14399799)
> Assuming 2000 calories/day, a human averages 97 Watts/hour.

97W, not 97W/h.

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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by Sharlin on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:41AM (#14399802)
> Watts/hour

Watts is already "per hour", mind. Or per second to be precise.

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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by 21 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:22AM (#14400138)
Why is electricity then measured in kW/h?

In my understanding, power (instantaneous) is measured in W, but consumption needs to be integrated over time, thus the per hour part.

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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by z0k on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:29AM (#14400161)
It's not kW/h, it's kWh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt_hour
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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @08:06AM (#14400508)
Which is kW * h, i.e. kilowatt times hours, like man-hours are number of men multiplied by time.
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Re:The Future of Go Summit – Ke Jie vs. AlphaGo by Sharlin on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:23AM (#14400332)
kW/h would be a unit of the derivative of power, measuring the rate at which power consumption changes.
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