The Two Week War^TM will still be going on during midterms and he’s gonna try and cancel them due to being at war, and he’ll point to Ukraine as proof its okay.

A boom in local AI as people buy the crazy expensive video cards for pennies on the dollar for home usage?

I guess that’s possible ya, in the rush to having to deal with it shit can happen. And ya, I’m just glad they fixed it.

Ya for sure, I’d probably be annoyed by that too. I just never understood why they even bothered to say, we’ll quarantine them below the universally accepted incubation period, and then reassess and hold longer if needed, which they ended up doing.

Why not just say we’ll hold them for this known incubation period, and then reassess if we need to hold them longer. Just seemed completely unnecessary to say what they originally said.

It says the three other Canadians who have been isolating since last month are being monitored in their 42-day quarantine and are not showing any symptoms.

Its nice to see they raised the quarantine level to something real. What they first announced was below every listed incubation period out there. It made no sense.

This seems beyond the high end now though.

Languages are updated constantly. Its not like Python was created and never changed after that. You’d he stuck on whatever the latest version was when it got etched into the silicon.

Id love to know how many warehouse staff wear diapers so they can boost their performance, or avoid getting fired. Amazon seems so intent on tracking everything.

There’s one company that claims they’ve done it at lab scale and are building it out at a power plant scale now.

There’s one company trying to etch models into the silicon, they got a working prototype in a 8b model and it does 17k t/s. They suggest at data center scales with bigger models it’d pay for itself in a year in saved costs in electricity, cooling, space required etc.

You can apply lora’s to it, but it will fall behind as it ages, im not quite sure how long a static model would last to make up the money after that 1st year, but for something like creative writing where it doesnt need current data (e.g programming but the languages are always changing and evolving is a problem) it might work?

Hours after Iran said they didnt trust them because they’d already been attacked twice during negotiations.

I went to a concert at a stadium that refused to let you keep the cap to your single use plastic water bottles because people had been throwing closed bottles full of water at the stage.

During the concert I saw 4 or 5 open bottles fly at the stage with liquid coming out.

People are terrible.

I feel like this would have been an onion headline many years ago

There are things like warrants for pre ipo companies, but you’d need to be pretty wealthy to access it.

Well, i dont think it doesn’t make sense if there was enough users of the AI data centers, but I dont think there will be. I agree that they won’t last long though by design, just like how starlink doesnt last long but does work, because it actually solves a real problem.

Like maybe this would work better as a general purpose datacenter and not AI focused? But you wont get investment for that because everything now is ai ai ai ai.

If youre going around the world, you’re going through multiple connection points which will absolutely add up. Going from LA to NYC, it probably wouldn’t be.

And these data centers satellites are small. Stop thinking massive things, they’re going to be like the v3 starlink dishes but a little bigger. They’re going to launch multiple data center dishes per launch like how starlink v3 will be 60, not 1 or 2. SpaceX already knows how to radiate heat away on the satellites they launch, this isnt going to be an issue for them, they already do it today.

Edit: like size wise you need to be thinking like a server rack, plus the huge folding solar array/radiator for it. They already know how to make the folding solar panels as well. And the rack will probably be long and narrow so they can angle it best against the sun so it gets as least heat as possible from it, not a chubby thing with a lot of surface on all sides.

Edit: also land based routing isn’t direct increasing the distance likely substantially, potentially more than the up and down, the massive starlink constellation it will be more direct.

Jesus christ, the amount of trackers that site wants you to agree to.

Latency around the world is faster in space too.

If the US military is doing something across the globe, satellite laser links will be faster than any ground based system.

They are designed to be maintenance free just like starlink. They’ll go up, and come back down every 5 or so years. They’ll constantly be iterating on them so new more powerful ones with any issues that existed resolved for the next batch.

No one is repairing starlinks in space.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he cancels all the contracts the first day possible after the IPO. He does have compute though, xAI built 2 huge data centres

You dont need to worry about land, power, red tape or NIMBY s in space which are big problems. The sun is always shining in a sun synchronous orbit, and space is plentiful. People think these are going to be massive megawatt things as well, but they arent, they’re going to be small satellites, so each one doesnt have as much heat to deal with as people think, and they know how to radiate heat away, they already do it on their satellites.

SpaceX also knows how to make relatively cheap satellites as demonstrated with Starlink where its a mass manufacturing line for them which brings costs down.

With starlink though people actually need the service and its worth paying for if you’re in an area that needs it. Its hard to say the same about all this AI stuff, so even if they can do it, we still haven’t seen that its profitable, that enough people want it, and that people wont eventually turn to a local AI if they do want it. So its possible, but its not solving a need as big as starlink is, so it could be an utter failure even if technically possible.

Personally I dont think its going to work because they wont get enough use to be profitable, not because the idea wont work or wouldn’t work if enough people wanted it.

Edit: also SpaceX has a proven track record of being able to launch satellites at a high cadence, so its just a matter of will starship be rapidly reusable. Starship has to be rapidly reusable for this work. If it turns out its only reusable after heavy refurbishment, that really messes with the economics of everything.