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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by mehrdadn on Thursday February 20, 2020 @02:33PM (#22377838)
I mean, if (1) is true but you get faster performance, then it's useful, right?
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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by aghillo on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:28PM (#22378269)
Yes. A typical example would be the use of statistical emulators, emulating process (physical) based models that are computationally complex in the environmental sciences.
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