Beowolf? Don't think so. If anything then maybe Spark with the map or reduce step being executed on the GPU, or better yet Tensor Flow. But as pointed out elsewhere, this chip is not even for that, especially next year when the new cards with NVlink blow away 980/Titan-X stuff of this year. No this thing is for drones, AR, or image recognition on embedded anything where power consumption and latency are the overwhelming factors. Otherwise graphics cards will outperform, or if latency is not a factor, then the whole thing can be offloaded to AWS or similar. Also, 16 bit (half-precision) floats normally bad for numerics are fine for neural networks with the bonus advantage of effectively doubling the memory bandwidth and problem size which are the current limitations.

I can tell you how bad it is, at least in the case of AT&T and Time Warner. In general, it's not bad so long as your problem is a common one.

However, the situation changes whenever you operate outside of the norm, or lets' say 1.5sigma for stats nerds. At that point it's as bad as it gets. I've had call centers just simply hang up on me twice when faced with core-networking problems. I believe the business decision in these situations the ISP would rather lose you as a customer forever rather than pay to fix your uncommon problem -- in fact I've been told this directly by a AT&T tech, but he sounded bitter. In other words, these companies are fundamentally set up to be unable to accommodate the %1 problem.

Is this a case of the former or the latter? I would say it's interesting because it sits right on the margin between the 2, and Comcast is trying to push the envelope towards the latter.

This metaphor only tells part of the story. Woodpecker's would only destroy buildings 1.0 (0.9 of course would collapse all by itself), 2.0 would have swivel guns to shoot the woodpeckers before they could "attack" the house, but would of course shoot some people too, but usually not their owner. House 3.0 would be pretty good, but by then people would have grown bored of houses and decided to live in mine shafts. The first groundhog would tend to destroy mine shaft 1.0 (mine shaft 0.9 would of course cave in by itself), etc.

Heh, well that is reasonable. But in this area: $90/month for 300/20 (residential) $1700/month for 30/30 (commercial)

And pay an order of magnitude more? No thanks, I'll take my chances with unreliability which actually turns out to be pretty reliable around here ... Oh yea, Google Fiber is being deployed. Good luck in Kentucky or Wyoming whatever 3rd world country you live in.

10% longer ---> 10% more time spent --> 0.1*C*X lost efficiency from loss of relevancy. Here's the problem, you're uninformed and are suggesting unfair solutions because of it. Now imagine the problem magnified a million-fold (a million people all with their own perspective) some of which aren't even trying to be fair. In the face of that, how does one suggest prioritization rules when the ones with most-likely adopted opinions are the ones with the most money?

Is seems pretty clear now that an outright ban on neonicotinoids is what is is called for here. The overall effect in bee population in countries that use is versus ones that don't combined with the detectable presence in honey and now this show that even controlled use is has too many unexpected side effects. The mere benefit of improved pest control efficiency is not worth this danger.

These broad statistics like average rating and stars are really a throwback to a time when processors were too slow for techniques like cooperative filtering , which in this context, essentially uses people to recommend movies and movies to recommend people back and forth for a more accurate estimator. The system is simultaneously able to find people that like the same kind of movies based on a common set of features and movies that have those features. The idea being that if you're a person that has preferences similar to someone that has rates a film highly then you will tend to also rate it highly. But the problem for simple rating sites is that these advanced techniques require you to establish an identity to differentiate yourself from "the average" and contribute by rating, which can be tedious while systems like Netflix can probably do more by inferring you rating by repeat viewing, tendency to scan, etc. However, once identity is established, then even fraudulent types of behavior can be dealt with. It's surprising that imdb, rotten tomatoes, fandango, etc cling to such inaccuracies, but I could find no reference to such techniques, though admittedly I didn't spend a long time looking.

As for me, 60/6 currently expected to upgrade to 300/20 on Nov 3; Time Warner. Google fiber later. For now ASUS 802.11ac hand-me-down is sufficient (not always downstairs). What's going on with your pathetic bandwidth, do you live in some rural area or something? LEO satellite will take care of that... not this year.

We had the same idea, but I think you're undervaluing it; 1 million per ml would be my price.

obligatory: "Strange game, the only winning move is not to play... How about a nice game of chess?" -- at which the computer will totally own your ass! (updated for 2015).

Wherein the Maverick AI enabled drone shows real promise until he loses his SSD backup best friend in a freak accident sending him into a deep depression and bought of soul searching. But he pulls his shit together in the end and saves the day.

Yea, and let's throw some lasers in there too for good measure, and maybe aliens, not sure.

Nah, aliens.

Think of the half time show!

You're missing the real-real point. Is billions and billions in profit worth the the death of some people? It sure is. Won't even be an argument. I hope I'm not one of the dead ones though.

I think ultimately the opposite will happen. Drones will fill the sky and we'll all be ok with it. Consider that some time in the not-too-distant future drones will be able to autonomously out-fly any human. They wont get tired, and they'll be able sense omni directionally and avoid each other, and just like ceding the responsibility of driving to self-driving cars we will let it happen because time is precious, why waste it? Meanwhile we will have modified our concept of privacy to accommodate drone ubiquity.