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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Nvidia was founded to design a specific kind of chip called a graphics card — also commonly called a GPU (graphics processing unit) — that enables the output of fancy 3D visuals on the computer screen. For most of Nvidia’s existence, game graphics were Nvidia’s raison d’etre.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Biology

ForAllSecure

So it's almost like by pushing yourself and doing something harder than all these other tests become easier in comparison. The only difference here is we used a 3d convolutional neural network, because our molecular structures are 3d, so we converted those to these 3d pixels called voxels.