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Interesting article rabbit hole I fell in last night
Posted on: September 14, 2016 at 09:05:02 CT
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It started with this article I was sent via an email list I am on.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-supersmart-children/
which is not too interesting but it talked about how the study of precocious kids started. Basically it started with a 12 year old kid named Joseph Bates that couldn't find classes that were challenging enough for him. He ended up connecting with a Johns Hopkins psychology professor that, after seeing Bates' test scores, convinced Johns Hopkins to let him enroll at 13 years old.
That led me to search what Bates was up to theses days and i found this from 2011.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-28/innovator-joseph-bates
Turns out Bates is a computer scientist specializing in AI. He is pushing for a new computer architecture that calls for the CPUs to be designed from the hardware layer to be imprecise in their calculations. The theory is that the current paradigm of super precise chips that calculate every frivolous step out to absurd detail unnecessarily slows down computation time but also uses more power and costs more in hardware (you need the newest chips to keep up). Basically he advocates having a computer compute more like a human meaning that there would be dumb chips that would ballpark the majority of the calculations to the "imprecise" margin of error of 1% and then one precise chip that could be handed the ballpark results to get more precise if the situation called for it. The precise chip would not have to be cutting edge since it would be starting it's calculations with a substantially small data set that the dumb chips generated.
I then found this article from April of this year
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601263/why-a-chip-thats-bad-at-math-can-help-computers-tackle-harder-problems/
He started a company to pursue his theory called Singular Computing that has received funding from DARPA.
His initial demonstrations have shown processing times 100 times faster while using less than 2% as much power as conventional chips.
tl;dr
people try to be like computers but now computers are trying to be like people.
also, if you have a precocious child let him or her skip grades. It doesn't hurt their social skills but it might change the world.
Edited by 44.f6 Rd1 at 09:09:58 on 09/14/16
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-supersmart-children/
which is not too interesting but it talked about how the study of precocious kids started. Basically it started with a 12 year old kid named Joseph Bates that couldn't find classes that were challenging enough for him. He ended up connecting with a Johns Hopkins psychology professor that, after seeing Bates' test scores, convinced Johns Hopkins to let him enroll at 13 years old.
That led me to search what Bates was up to theses days and i found this from 2011.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-01-28/innovator-joseph-bates
Turns out Bates is a computer scientist specializing in AI. He is pushing for a new computer architecture that calls for the CPUs to be designed from the hardware layer to be imprecise in their calculations. The theory is that the current paradigm of super precise chips that calculate every frivolous step out to absurd detail unnecessarily slows down computation time but also uses more power and costs more in hardware (you need the newest chips to keep up). Basically he advocates having a computer compute more like a human meaning that there would be dumb chips that would ballpark the majority of the calculations to the "imprecise" margin of error of 1% and then one precise chip that could be handed the ballpark results to get more precise if the situation called for it. The precise chip would not have to be cutting edge since it would be starting it's calculations with a substantially small data set that the dumb chips generated.
I then found this article from April of this year
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601263/why-a-chip-thats-bad-at-math-can-help-computers-tackle-harder-problems/
He started a company to pursue his theory called Singular Computing that has received funding from DARPA.
His initial demonstrations have shown processing times 100 times faster while using less than 2% as much power as conventional chips.
tl;dr
people try to be like computers but now computers are trying to be like people.
also, if you have a precocious child let him or her skip grades. It doesn't hurt their social skills but it might change the world.
Edited by 44.f6 Rd1 at 09:09:58 on 09/14/16
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