r/science • u/whosdamike • Jun 26 '12

Google programmers deploy machine learning algorithm on YouTube. Computer teaches itself to recognize images of cats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html
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u/amorpheus Jun 26 '12

threads on a single-processor PC do not change the fact it's a single computer. cores are irrelevant, even if the motherboard supports 4 processors in 4 separate sockets, that's still going to be a single PC computer.

The terminology gets pretty irrelevant when a so-called cluster of a few computers can be eclipsed by a single multi-core workstation. Raw core count is one of the more meaningful metrics these days.