[HN Gopher] The Future of Hardware Is Software ___________________________________________________________________ The Future of Hardware Is Software Author : blueplastic Score : 19 points Date : 2022-01-11 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (octoml.ai) (TXT) w3m dump (octoml.ai) | aidenn0 wrote: | > A classic example is Itanium: it is only a historical footnote | today, but Itanium's explicit parallelism and focus on | scalability once made it look like the future of CPUs. The | problem was never the hardware itself--it was difficult | compilation and backward compatibility with the x86 software | ecosystem that doomed Itanium. | | The problem with the Itanium _was_ the hardware itself. Finding | sufficient ILP on general purpose loads for a VLIW like Itanium | is an unsolved problem in compiler design. Saying the problem | with Itanium was software would be like entering a drag-racer in | formula 1 and saying the problem was that the drivers weren 't | good enough at steering. | fxtentacle wrote: | "The Future of Hardware Is Software" ... says everyone that wants | to sell you AI software on commoditized hardware. | | Yet here I am, I recently won an AI competition by reviving an | old 2005 algorithm and just using the fact that compute power has | 7000x-ed since then (from 5 GFLOPS on a P4 to 35 TFLOPS on a | 3090). No AI was needed. | | And now I'm building custom electronics for a new type of 3D | camera because even after years of AI and deep learning research, | structured light and/or stereoscopic 3D depth estimation is still | unusable. Try training a NERF from "only" 3 UHD images and you | know what I mean. | [deleted] | TaylorAlexander wrote: | > I'm building custom electronics for a new type of 3D camera | | I would love to know more. I am working on an open source | farming robot and vision is an important component. Are you | able to share more? | metadat wrote: | You're such a tease! | | Seriously, please share the deets on this 2005 "junker" algo. | | It was super unsatisfying to read your post with so much | interesting information glossed over. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-11 23:00 UTC)