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brookst 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

Neural is an adjective. Adjectives do not require their associated nouns to be present. See also: digital computers have mo fingers at all.

-mlv 6 months ago [–]

I always thought 'digital' referred to numbers, not fingers.

bdd8f1df777b 6 months ago | [–]

The derivative meaning has been use so widely that it has surpassed its original one in usage. But it doesn’t change the fact that it originally refers to the fingers.

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