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I remember when “data” was something useful, not yottabytes of fake mountain goat jumping videos and fart sounds.
“data” was something useful
yottabytes of fake mountain goat jumping videos and fart sounds.
I want to taste the steel of a shotgun at the back of my throat with my toe on the trigger.
Man you guys would be surprised how normal these tent-systems are in all sorts of industry manufacturing stuff. Yes they’re “temporary” constructions, but in a very permanent kind of way. They’re insulated, heated/cooled, have cast concrete flooring, rated for surprisingly high winds etc. They can easily be used for years without issues.
100%. The optics definitely aren’t good though - those kinds of tents tend to spring to mind things like FEMA deployments or temporary accommodations for the military.
Maybe optimize the LLM to run on less compute?
Or just realize that nobody fucking likes LLMs as much as the Captains of Industry want us to believe, and that the true power of this technical domain lies in more targeted and bespoke ML model generation and usage.
ML is good and enables - and has enabled - some genuine generational leaps in science and technology. But LLMs are such a fucking waste of the technology’s potential. Not to mention, in extremely irritated that (largely due to Nvidia cornering the market) everyone is super gung-ho about a digital approach which amounts to brute-forcing neural nets digitally with shitloads of memory and highly-parallel compute, when it’s obvious to anyone with more than a passing familiarity with electrical engineering that an analog approach is going to be FAR more efficient in terms of resource and energy usage.
maybe this is personal preference
Stop talking sense when has good sense ever been the solution of choice.
If I was king they would have to run on 100% on-site solar and air cooling.
would be based
But everything’s computer!
Don’t worry, Chinese LLM vendors without access to the newest hardware will take care of that.
based,hopefully they use this to optimize local LLMS so i have higher tokens per second.
This seems very different to high-security data centers…
- I wouldn’t want my (business) data handled like that
- I wonder how well this could be defended against a roving gang of enterprising racoons that comes to liberate their precious RAM and GPUs 🦝
High security data centers are usually invisible, unless you know that some random building is a datacenter.
I can hear the war cry already: “the greatest technician that’s ever lived”
Its not business data, these are just ridiculously powered AI training computers.
If I’m not mistaken many recent datacenters are focused on inference rather than training. But it is often a bit of both.
I wonder if they’re flammable or inflammable?
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Both if you’re lucky.
I mean, they are worth millions a rack. Get some youngins with strong backs…
Is it illegal to buy handkerchiefs, bottles of vodka, and a lighter?
I’m not one to advocate for anything of course but I think it’s pretty reasonable to have at least handkerchiefs and a few lighters at home always. Buy the vodka on demand. Of course not a bad idea to stock up on vodka either, never know when you want to get drunk or disinfect a wound.
Might be a hot take, but vodka is one of the more desperate choices when looking to get drunk on your own time (at least in terms of taste). Rubbing alcohol for wounds is also far cheaper.
Not separately
Reading that China is quite advanced in AI also, and if these things are related, how are they handling things like data centers over there? Or are they not related?
China has a very different climate and landmass. The reason these companies keep trying to make datacenters in places where they’ll use all the water the residents need to survive, is because those places are the cheapest to build and opperate. Land in the desert is dirt-cheap (lol). China doesn’t have to build in the desert to build on cheap land, and so can build pretty much whereever they feel like it, including where water and electricity isn’t an issue.
Also, they’ve shown before that they don’t really have to give a shit about the lives of local residents. They probably (maybe) don’t want them to die, but relocation is always an option.
In the end we probably don’t know wether people are pissed about it or not, since we don’t get a lot of news from rural China.
Also, they’ve shown before that they don’t really have to give a shit about the lives of local residents. They probably (maybe) don’t want them to die, but relocation is always an option.
Learn US history a little. Read about the flooding of the Ozarks and hundreds of other regions of the US to build power dams.
Yeah it just had me thinking. Thank you.
Lots of statesponsored datacenters being build in China. And of course with no way to say no to those.
And a majority of domestically produced Chinese RAM-chips are being funneled into Chinese datacenters (by government mandate).
I love how Zuck always gets the short end of the stick.
