# What is the Hardware Lottery? (Machine Learning Research Paper Explained by Yannic Kilcher) #Shorts

**Published:** February 20, 2021
**Author:** Yannic Out Of Distribution
**Source:** YouTube — Yannic Kilcher
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/what-is-the-hardware-lottery-machine-learning-research-paper-explained-b

We like to think that ideas in research succeed because of their merit, but this story is likely incomplete. The term "hardware lottery" describes the fact that certain algorithmic ideas are successful because they happen to be suited well to the prevalent hardware, whereas…

> From the original source: **YouTube — Yannic Kilcher**
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**Tags:** #arXiv #YouTube

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