Well, machine learning is not typical software engineering; nor is AGI ... On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Tim Tyler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/11/2014 22:28, Ben Goertzel via AGI wrote: > >> However, it does often take several days for us to do a MOSES (machine >> learning algorithm) run across a body of datasets that interests us >> (using crossvalidation etc. etc.) .... >> >> Speeding that up by 10% wouldn't make much difference to us. >> Speeding that up by 100x would make a tremendous difference to us, >> because it would then let us perform MOSES-parameter-space search in a >> more automated way, rather than "largely by hand.".... Speeding that >> up by 10x would make a moderate difference to us.... > > > Today, we should have more than enough computing power, for most > reasonable software engineering tasks. I can't say I've never > seen engineers waiting around for the build to complete or the > tests to run. However, that's generally a consequence of their > time management choices - or sometimes the result of dubious > project management practices. > > Today, if you are writing software and more than 20% of your critical > path is in cyberspace, rather than complaining about CPU speeds not > being fast enough for your highly-automated project, you should > seriously consider whether your build/test process could be made > more modular - or more parallel - or that you could better parallelize > your development work - and delegate more of the work to others. > > I can think of some cases where businesses are CPU-bound. > Cryptocurrency mining and ray-traced movie rendering spring > to mind. However, these are not really software engineering. > Software engineering is one of the areas which we don't > currently know how to automate very well. > > In the future, no doubt machines will be on the critical path > more. Today, this happens rarely - reflecting the work that > still needs to be done to automate software engineering. > > -- > __________ > |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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