It's one thing to know the recipe; it's another to have an industrial-size
kitchen. Google was able to throw truly gargantuan amounts of computing
resources at this problem.
A few years back, a researcher - was it Remi Coulon? - was able to scrounge a
few thousand cores for a tournament. Google designed an ASIC specifically for
the task of accelerating their neural networks, and made thousands of them
available for massive tests and training. Terry McIntyre
<terrymcint...@yahoo.com> Unix/Linux Systems Administration Taking time to do
it right saves having to do it twice.tr
On Thursday, January 5, 2017 9:01 AM, Stefan Kaitschick
<skaitsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
Honestly I got a little frustrated that many people didn't think that
was AlphaGo. It was almost clear to me because I know the difficulty of
developing AlphaGo-like bots.
I feel with you. People seem to think that the Nature paper gave away the full
recipe.
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