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Re:Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architect... by quotemstr on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:03AM (#21594061)
> i guess brain's synaptic precision could go way lower, as low as 26 distinct synapse weights: https://elifesciences.org/articles/10778

Thanks for the link. Artificial neural networks all the way down to binary weights [1] although this approach doesn't seem like the most efficient one. It's interesting how we're still seeing a ton of variability in ML architectures: it suggests we haven't stumbled on the right area yet. It reminds me how early aviation had a huge diversity of aircraft plans, but now, after a lot of optimization, we've settled on that one standard airliner shape everyone uses everywhere.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02830

Re:Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architect... by buboard on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:28AM (#21594298)
A formal theory of deep learning is proving to be much more elusive that avionics. Interesting times though