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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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Deep Learning and the Bitcoin Miners

Games have driven so much I mean obviously it drove us as kids and I think it still drives kids in terms of it's their first exposure to computing. For most computer scientists it's the first thing they write as a game at some level right? "I feel like what happened is that games launched GPUs and are the reason that we had Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)" The deep learning people and the Bitcoin miners certainly the Bitcoin miners yes put those two sets of people together and they're probably a lot bigger than the or the game the game market I feel like," he said.

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