[FRIAM] Run with a single bit?

[Roger Frye]

It's the width of the channel.  They had been reducing the precision of the
floating point numbers being transmitted between nodes from 64 bits to 16
and then to 8 bit bytes.  Nothing to prevent you from reducing to a more
complicated network of on/off channels.

Reminds me of my early days in computing when I wanted to boot one computer
from another.  I keyed in a one-bit loader in the empty computer.  Then ran
a single wire from a console light on the live computer to an input switch
on the empty one and transmitted the code for a more flexible loader over
the wire.
-Roger


On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

> 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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