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Re:TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning by mrcactu5 on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:01AM (#17540936)
One of the authors is at Google, so it wouldn't surprise me. Thermodynamics is clearly a metaphor, but information entropy they are studying be bounded by the literal heat generated by their computations.
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Re:TherML – Thermodynamics of Machine Learning by selimthegrim on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:19PM (#17543610)
That author was my classmate in undergrad, I used to run into him in the computer lab. The point I was making was that I think he was interested more in the physics parallels than any practical effects.
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