Convolutional Neural Networks with Swift for Tensorflow: Image Recognition and Dataset Categorization

© Brett Koonce 2021

B. KoonceConvolutional Neural Networks with Swift for Tensorflowhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6168-2_13

13. MNIST Revisited

Brett Koonce¹  

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Jefferson, MO, USA

 

The twentieth century had a number of interesting inventions, but I believe computers are the most important one. Every year has seen more and more compute cycles being brought to market, and every year has seen appetite and demand for computing increase. We may have hit the limits of Dennard scaling, but there are many decades of interesting improvements to be made.

Next steps

Here’s how I see the near future coming at us:

• More cores

• More RAM

• More bandwidth

• More customized hardware

• More generic hardware

Cores in general are simple. We’ve hit the limits of how fast we can ...