[FRIAM] Run with a single bit?

[Tom Johnson]

Friam Friends:

A recent article
<http://mashable.com/2017/06/29/microsoft-puts-ai-on-a-raspberry-pi/#HKAb_h1pvaqc>
passed along by George Duncan says:

"Now, Varma's team in India and Microsoft researchers in Redmond,
Washington, (the entire project is led by lead researcher Ofer Dekel) have
figured out how to *compress neural networks, the synapses of Machine
Learning, down from 32 bits to, sometimes, a single bit *and run them on a
$10 Raspberry Pi
<http://%20%28the%20entire%20project%20is%20led%20by%20ofer%20dekel%29/>, a
low-powered, credit-card-sized computer with a handful of ports and no
screen."

How, or what, can you do with a "single bit."?

TJ

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