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0 pointsHarHarVeryFunny9mo ago0 comments

> Not in the context I asked: I asked him after he had suggested that 'neuromorphic' would be great to reduce the energy consumption of LLMs. I wanted to know why/how, given that LLMs are trained today with BP.

I assume this whole Q&A with Furber is a fantasy of yours that never happened, or alternatively you had done zero homework about SpiNNaker and spiking neural networks beforehand, and understood nothing about dataflow as a way to reduce energy consumption (as your last post proved).

You may think that leading off your responses with a bunch of bullet points you just got from Google makes you sound well-informed, but it doesn't - it comes across like a high schooler with nothing to say trying to pad their essay.

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GregarianChild9mo ago

> fantasy of yours that never happened

Shall we bet money on this?

You are right, I don't know much about SpiNNaker. All I know about SpiNNaker is from a talk of Furber's where he said "Neuromorphic status: attracts no money, but works (in the sense of accelerate in niche domains)". When I asked niche domains, he replied: "brain simulation but nothing else".

> understood nothing about dataflow as a way to reduce energy consumption (as your last post proved).

If you don't tell me concretely, where I am wrong about dataflow, I cannot learn and improve ...

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