Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:45:08 05/28/00
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On May 28, 2000 at 08:47:38, James T. Walker wrote:
>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.
>>
>> Albert Silver
>Hello Albert,
>You are already exagerating it's speed. By next month this thing will be faster
>than the speed of light. :)
>
>Here is the quote from the article:
>
>"Before the win by Deep Blue -- the Finnish computer will be 150 times faster
>than the chess-playing machine -- IBM was No. 3 in a ranking of 500
>supercomputer installations worldwide."
>Jim Walker
>
:-) I wasn't trying to be accurate and was merely trying to make a point.
Albert Silver
>>
>>
>>>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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