Friday, July 22, 2005
Back and bored
Well, I haven't written in about a year, but I'm back. Why? Well, I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer and 7.5 of those hours are waiting for my algorithm to process.
I really thought that I was too good looking to be a computer programmer. I was wrong.
If I have learned anything this summer, it is that I hate neural networks. Machine learning (teaching your computer to do stuff) is a fun idea, but in practice it takes forever because the computer is dumb. I am currently spreading the load across seven machines, not GCC laptops either, and it still takes years to complete. The problem is not my code. It's the neural net.
I put a timer on the neural net, but it takes so long to run the algorithm that it inevitably resets. When the processing finishes, I have 90 windows pop up on my screen. I enter the "close all" command and have to wait another 30 seconds for my screen to be readable.
Well, I haven't written in about a year, but I'm back. Why? Well, I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer and 7.5 of those hours are waiting for my algorithm to process.
I really thought that I was too good looking to be a computer programmer. I was wrong.
If I have learned anything this summer, it is that I hate neural networks. Machine learning (teaching your computer to do stuff) is a fun idea, but in practice it takes forever because the computer is dumb. I am currently spreading the load across seven machines, not GCC laptops either, and it still takes years to complete. The problem is not my code. It's the neural net.
I put a timer on the neural net, but it takes so long to run the algorithm that it inevitably resets. When the processing finishes, I have 90 windows pop up on my screen. I enter the "close all" command and have to wait another 30 seconds for my screen to be readable.
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