28 DeepMind - company behind Alpha Zero, which taught itself to play chess and in matter of hours could beat world's best players - has used same tech to discover new algorithm to speed up matrix multiplication. "Learn to code" won't always be thing. (www.newscientist.com) posted 2 years ago by CoolAsACucumber 2 years ago by CoolAsACucumber +29 / -1 DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers Matrix multiplication - where two grids of numbers are multiplied together - forms the basis of many computing tasks, and an improved technique discovered by an artificial intelligence could boost computation speeds by up to 20 per cent 17 comments share 17 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Multiplication can be done by graphs and intersection. That's how Asians do it. PC are great at it.
Example. 2x11=22
Cross the lines
Count intersections.
Scales.
https://youtu.be/VJf8XAhC550
Not related, but I like showing tricks.
Yes but we're talking about matrix multiplication. You know like multiplying a (4x2) matrix with a (2x4) matrix.
What is linear algebra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-dxklh7NVA
Vectors and matrices, multiplication, rank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7duO95-v6Y
Its different than just regular multiplication taught in grade school.
Your computers are constantly doing matrix math.