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Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid. (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Dude on the right is correct that perturbed gradient descent with threshold functions and backprop feedback was implemented before most of us were born.

The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Random but why is "embarrassing" or similar adjectives so often used to describe a parallel program? What's embarrassing about it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Embarrassingly parallelizable" is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

rather odd choice of adjective though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think the usage implies it's so easy to parallelize that any competent programmer should be embarrassed if they weren't running it in parallel. Whereas many classes of problems can be extremely complex or impossible to parallelize, and running them sequentially would be perfectly acceptable.

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