In The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Hamming gives this amazing sigmoidal formulation for the growth rate of computing power: e^(22(1-e^(-t/20))), with t=0 in 1943. That predicts 2.2 GHz for 2019, with is rather remarkably close to where we are.
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It's a fun problem to think about - writing a web browser which is a neural net. (A friend of mine once taught his spam filter to play chess.)
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It might be a easier problem than writing a new web rendering engine from scratch! Very fun to think about
, lots of training data, probably faster and lower power too with the right Silicon
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Absolutely agree! Guess the question is how much left is there for the human species to gain with faster C/JavaScript vs bigger/faster/lower power ML systems? Worry Wirth's law quickly neutralizes any gain in single threaded SW performance for most users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law …
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