this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
274 points (96.9% liked)

Science Memes

10885 readers
4968 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
274
Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid. (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Dude on the right is correct that perturbed gradient descent with threshold functions and backprop feedback was implemented before most of us were born.

The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.

Plus organizations outside of the FAANGs having hit critical mass on data that's actually useful for mass comparison multiple correlation analyses, and data as a service platforms making things seem sexier to management in those organizations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Random but why is "embarrassing" or similar adjectives so often used to describe a parallel program? What's embarrassing about it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Embarrassingly parallelizable" is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

rather odd choice of adjective though

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I think the usage implies it's so easy to parallelize that any competent programmer should be embarrassed if they weren't running it in parallel. Whereas many classes of problems can be extremely complex or impossible to parallelize, and running them sequentially would be perfectly acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's commonly used in some corners of computer science

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's in the same spirit as the phrase "an embarrassment of riches". So a bit of an archaic usage.