Post Aixf6OgLhcTframedE by dalias@hachyderm.io
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 (DIR) Post #Aixf6N6rY4UuzFAngG by dalias@hachyderm.io
       2024-06-12T21:55:31Z
       
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       @Nazani @javi This is crypto rebranded. They even get to reuse the same hardware (GPUs) and the main pusher (nvidia) gets to keep selling them.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aixf6NtmcBd5Qy3rvs by tob@hachyderm.io
       2024-06-15T13:31:44Z
       
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       @dalias @Nazani @javi the current AI wave was *caused* by a glut of coprocessing chips that were produced by Nvidia and purchased by al cloud hosting providers with the plan to sell blockchain/"bitcoin mining as a service" to corporate customers. But that bubble popped and they were left with tremendously expensive servers, specifically useful only for parallel computation, that nobody wanted to use.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aixf6OgLhcTframedE by dalias@hachyderm.io
       2024-06-15T13:38:07Z
       
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       @tob @Nazani @javi Nobody wanted to use it because parallel computation is largely useless. All the interesting parts of computation have data dependent code paths. GPUs are the computational version of the mass production capitalist brainworms of "amortize cost by doing the exact same thing at a scale much larger than anyone needs" rather than optimizing efficiency at small or single unit.