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From: bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
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Date: 10 Jan 89 03:55:25 GMT
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Re: need a teraflop to do human speech recognition...

Last time someone told me this I assured them that if they could
cobble together something which would recognize human speech
accurately on a more conventional machine but veerrry slowwly I would
find them a few hundred million to merely speed it up, no problem.

That's not as smarmy a comment as it first sounds, graphics and
physics folks have been doing this successfully for years, putting
together fantastic but hideously slow algorithms which then justify
someone investing megabucks in hardware to speed them up is no major
problem, but you have to have the algorithm.

I smell a hand waving, or at least a box of pencils being sharpened
over and over again...

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||