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The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

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251 points slyall | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 04:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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teknover ◴[06 Nov 24 07:09 UTC] No.42057746[source]▶
“Nvidia invented the GPU in 1999” wrong on many fronts.

Arguably the November 1996 launch of 3dfx kickstarted GPU interest and OpenGL.

After reading that, it’s hard to take author seriously on the rest of the claims.

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1. KevinMS ◴[06 Nov 24 09:14 UTC] No.42058425[source]▶
Can confirm. I was playing Unreal on my dual Voodoo2 SLI rig back in 1998.