My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

I’ve been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there’s some research on using FPGA (I know very little about this). I don’t think there’s a coincidence that GPUs that are built for graphics turn out to be great for image classification using convolutional neural networks. When you are dealing with pixel data packed into 2D ...

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