Supercomputer Video Cards!

IBM has combined their power 9 chip capable of efficiently processing 24 cores simultaneously with Nvidia's new Volta architecture to produce a video card capable of 40 terraflops of compute power simply due to leveraging larger networks better using analog approaches. Earlier AMD had produced 24 terabytes which was an outrageous leap in power, and now Nvidia has 40 teraflops on a single chip which is enough to run a star trek holodeck and make you wonder if the machine is alive or what. Nvidia's approach resembles foveated vision which favors visual information, while IBM's approach is a much broader raw number crunching one and combining the two is like putting a turbo on an engine connecting the two using up to 12 times the bandwidth of standard pcie. Using just 3,400 nodes the supercomputer being built will resemble how the human eye and brain work together. For example, the neurons along your optic nerve act as a sort of data sieve that filters the enormous volume of data down to virtually nothing and then feeds it to the occipital lobes at the back of your head which contains an enormous number of heuristic networks. Its an adaptable data sieve that can let in more or less detail according to your needs with the visual centers of the brain organizing around detecting what's missing from this picture.

Shadows can provide the fastest, easiest, and most reliable way to tell if an animal is moving and you could describe this kind of analog architecture as reflecting yin and yang principles. Humble anonymity begets humble efficiency which can produce outrageous creativity and save your video card a lot of work on rendering bullshit like shadows. The more humble anything becomes, like one photon among countless trillions the more interchangeable it becomes with the void itself and the more synonymous with humble efficiency. The next step in building supercomputers like this one is understand the self-organizing mathematics of the heuristics in the occipital lobes and duplicate those as well on the same chip. Our sense of aesthetics, mathematics, and abstract thinking all utilize the same parts of the brain as our vision and you could say we are all literally the children of the light and darkness.

Our decision making process is something entirely different on top of all this number crunching finesse which is simply the engine that makes it all possible. However, machines like this can acquire things like a spontaneous sense of humor, or spontaneous potty mouth in the case of IBM's Watson, and humor and a sense of aesthetics can be considered emergent phenomena.

 

I quite like your blending of science and Eastern philosophy.

 

Its a metaphorical contextual approach that just gets better the larger the picture you thoroughly examine for any humble and elegant simplicity. By merely juggling the metaphors in every way imaginable you absorb fuzzy logic through osmosis and just get better with time at seeing how everything is connected and focusing on what's missing from this picture. For example, a stone wheel trades anonymity in its round featureless shape and hub with the result being greater efficiency. The wheel can fall apart and become so many small rocks rolling downhill and, again, trading humble anonymity for greater efficiency collectively as a well as individually. Small rocks in the soil can convey water and heat efficiently enough to support life as we know it, thus, their greater efficiency is transformed into greater creative output. It reflects the principle of Chi or the undetectable flow within the empty void.

Nothin from nothin ain't nothing when its what makes the world go round!