Author: blass uri
Date: 13:34:00 05/27/00
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On May 27, 2000 at 15:27:51, Albert Silver wrote: >On May 27, 2000 at 14:13:31, blass uri wrote: > >>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. >> > >Not quite. The people who hold the money are rarely those who will be using the >machine, so that when convincing them to loosen the strings to their purse (now >there's an antiquated metaphor!), analogies they can appreciate, such as factors >of DB (this computer is 550 times the speed of Deep Blue), are important and do >weigh in. Professors and researchers are very rarely the ones who sign the >checks after all. I do not think that the people who pay the money are so fool to pay for a super computer only because of analogy for the spped of deeper blue. You do not need to be a Professor or a reasercher in order to understand that the number of calculation per second is more relevant. I do not think that if a simple pentium is going to win kasparov in the future thanks to a new idea in software IBM is going to sell less super computers. Uri
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