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Subject: Re: OT: New Supercomputer announced with lots of Deep Blue Hype

Author: blass uri

Date: 11:13:31 05/27/00

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On May 27, 2000 at 13:31:47, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On May 26, 2000 at 22:02:57, William Bryant wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 2000 at 13:10:33, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/061931.htm
>>>
>>>                                      Albert Silver
>>
>>In reading the hype of this article, it is quite clear just how much IBM won
>>when Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
>>
>>William
>>wbryant@ix.netcom.com
>
>No kidding.  For the next ten years the speed of every computer they release
>will be express in integer multiples of Deep Blue.
>
>And the wire services will continue to pick up their produce announcements,
>because they perceive that the public is interested in Deep Blue.  They would
>not be interested in the dry technical details that would comprise these
>announcements if Deep Blue hadn't existed.
>
>bruce

The question is not what the public is interested in but what very rich people
are interested.

I believe that the buyers of their super computer will not buy it because of the
deep blue information but because they find that the super computer can help
them in other subjects and the knowledge that deeper blue won kasparov in chess
gives no information if the machine can help them for their needs.

The number of calculation per second is clearly more relevant.

Uri



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