Can we please never use the phrase "data nuggets" again
Honestly wasn't that egregious. Definitely not at the bottom of the barrel. No references to Elon Musk or Ja Rule's predictions for the AI singularity.
GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets
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#23This makes me curious – remember back in the oughts where SETI@Home and Folding@Home were popular? Were those adapted for GPUs and saw a huge acceleration in calculations?
If distributed computing had a fraction of time on the millions of GPUs mining cryptocurrencies, I can't imagine how close we'd be to curing disease and finding ET.
Crypto is the pinnacle of human dogshit, but we'd probably be no closer to curing disease or finding ET
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#24At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also be used to detect airplanes.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
quick search reveals these: https://curecoin.net/ https://foldingcoin.net/ pretty cool idea! if you're going to do difficult maths for proof of work it might as well be useful I suppose?
I was on the Curecoin team as of last year. It's a neat project, but they weren't able to manage a working relationship with Stanford. There is a unique opportunity here to use digital currencies to fund scientific research through the use of a reward mechanism and distributed ledgers. Our project is hoping to take a similar idea to scale (research/project-based "work) by utilizing open datasets posted on decentraliz…
I suggest sending the leaders of aforementioned institutions/non-profits/public sector establishments a healthy dosage of LSD if you hope to persuade them to work with you.
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#26This makes me curious – remember back in the oughts where SETI@Home and Folding@Home were popular? Were those adapted for GPUs and saw a huge acceleration in calculations?
Molecular dynamics has been using GPUs for much longer than Machine Learning. Yes, the accelerations are enormous.
But the accelerations aren't as enormous as they are on Anton's ASICs. :)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
If distributed computing had a fraction of time on the millions of GPUs mining cryptocurrencies, I can't imagine how close we'd be to curing disease and finding ET.
You dont just cure disease by doing protein folding simulations. thats just a very tiny part of drug development.
I'd rather be a tiny way close to new cures than a more pointless hashing for blockchains.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linear Algebra libraries have been using GPUs for longer than molecular dynamics. What's your point?
That doesn't jibe with my memory - the first codes running on GPUs at the supercomputer centers that had privileged early access were running MD, without any GPU-accelerated LA libraries.
My recollection (which is admittedly fuzzy) is in line with yours. MD was the first application of GPU-accelerated computing that I recall (partly cause NVidia seemed to push that). BLAS, LAPACK, etc got GPU-enabled later.
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#29At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also be used to detect airplanes. https://github.com/DiracInstitute/kbmod
That's really neat! What do you use for training data?
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#30At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also be used to detect airplanes. https://github.com/DiracInstitute/kbmod
That's really neat! What do you use for training data?
GPUs can do things besides machine learning. It uses a maximum likelihood estimator, so no training data.