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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • If anything i think the better comparison is you use more power watching TV or gaming than you probably will using AI in the day if you do either of those 2 things.

    The issue is training takes a lot of power, and because we can’t run the hardware locally our usage is also placed in these data centers which put pressure on a specific area instead of distributing the same power usage.

    I saw a post a couple days ago about a company etching the model weights into silicon chip and they made a 8b model that could do 16k t/s and once made are relatively cheap to produce, and in power requirements, and would only get better. Just need to make sure they can be recycled well as they’d end up on a 1 to 2 year cycle like phones. Model to chip in 60 days they said.

    So maybe that’s the future solution to distrubuted usage, but we would still need to solve training, but we could just mandate these datacenters must build their own renewable power and it would be less is everyone could run their own local inference.











  • It’s as English as this is

    Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.


  • He still is involved with engineering things, people just want to think he’s not so they can think less of him.

    E.g with Starship it was his decision (that he had to convince everyone on) to use stainless steel for Starship. If I recall correctly, his current focus is on the raptor engine.

    So far SS seems to have been working well for them, with the ship surviving some brutal re-entries even with missing heat shield tiles.

    This is the progress they’re making on Raptor. And for anyone that doesn’t know, Raptor are the first Full-Flow Staged Combustion Cycle (FFSCC) engines ever flown. A lot of the reductions you’re seeing between the engines is from moving to 3D printing all those channels within the tubes.