Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Machine learning everywhere!

Samsung announced a while back that they used a "Neural Net based predictor" for their CPU branch prediction.

Shortly after that an Intel person claimed it's no big deal because they have also been using a perceptron for some time.

But to me this seemed a rather big discovery! Previously I would have assumed that branch prediction is a super complex algorithm.

Learning that branch prediction is a basic perceptron reduces Intel's perceived strength.

So companies are openly and covertly using machine learning everywhere.

Machine learning is also a perfect fit for companies because there is no moral filter on a neural network and no chance of whistle blowing.

Volkswagen truly missed a golden opportunity here with their diesel scandal.

They should have just trained a neural network on passing the diesel criteria and then have perfect plausible deniability: "the neural network disabled the pollution filters all by itself!"

The Trouble with Harry time loop

I saw The Trouble with Harry (1955) a while back and it didn't have a big impression on me. But recently I rewatched it and was amazed a...