[MINI] GPU CPU
[MINI] GPU CPU  
Podcast: Data Skeptic
Published On: Fri Apr 14 2017
Description: There's more than one type of computer processor. The central processing unit (CPU) is typically what one means when they say "processor". GPUs were introduced to be highly optimized for doing floating point computations in parallel. These types of operations were very useful for high end video games, but as it turns out, those same processors are extremely useful for machine learning. In this mini-episode we discuss why.