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Submission + - DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed to Be Bad at Arithmetic (technologyreview.com)

holy_calamity writes: Pentagon research agency DARPA has funded the creation of a chip incapable of correct arithmetic, in the hope of making computers better at understanding the real world. The S1 chip can process noisy data like video very efficiently because it doesn't need the extra circuits or operations needed to ensure every mathematical operation is performed perfectly. This summer DARPA will put five prototype computers, each equipped with 16 of the inexact S1 chips, online for researchers to experiment with.

Comment Cybersecurity Issue (Score 1) 1

According to some colleagues, the website doesn't have any cybersecurity system. They even tried to penetrate the system and they easily get the 80GB of database record. This is a serious matter that should be addressed here in the Philippines. Data of registered voters are compromised.

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