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when you see the list of major investors in Cursor that will never break even if it stays independent, and compare it to the investors in SpaceX, it all makes sense.

are you running an NVLink? I have the same setup but no NVLink and it feels like it's best just splitting the 3090s to run separate models concurrently. But I also have no idea what I'm doing.

It depends on what you're comparing. If the same model fits on the combined VRAM but not on a single contiguous VRAM, then it won't be faster to run two instances of it. If you're comparing a 23 GB model running duplicated vs a 46 GB model running split, then yeah, that will likely be faster, just because there's no synchronization between cards.

AFAIUI, there'd be little advantage in having a higher speed inter-card connection, because the cards don't really talk to each other during inference. The loss of efficiency compared to a monolithic memory architecture comes from scheduling, not from data transfer.


as a pilot - it's a reminder that if the pros can make a mistake then I absolutely can and I better not take anything for granted when I fly.

I remember watching a documentary about this crash. The pilot was known to violate rules and in this case he banked too much if I remember correctly.

In the US it gets fought hard because Wall St uses it to dodge state income taxes. Everyone thinks it's drug dealer related for us, but it's actually Finance bros driving into NYC from out of state (NJ or CT) but trying to hide it.

how does one buy a SIM without an address/phone number that's already tied to your physical identity ?

if I remember correctly it involves prepaid debit cards that involved no ID correlation, then you bought sims in person using said debit card which you activated online with any made up address because the prepaid debit cards had no mailing address, so it accepted anything. or you "registered" the prepaid sim online with whatever fake mailing address you wanted.

that's actually not true at all. today's homes flash up in a matter of minutes, where as older homes can take nearly a half hour. today's homes are designed to minimize the chance of danger, but in situations like a fire, once they happen they are more dangerous today than they were in the past.


isn't there a law for that? as things become cheaper you consume more?


You're probably thinking about jevons paradox. But you slightly mis-stated. It is the phenomenon that increasing the efficiency of resource consumption can end up increasing total consumption.

As you stated it, it would merely be a property of (nearly) all demand curves. Jevons paradox only happens sometimes. It isn't a law.


An example of where it stopped happening is with gasoline in developed countries. Cars having better fuel efficiency doesn’t make me drive further to the grocery store or work.

Generally when someone replaces their vehicle the new one is more fuel efficient than the old one even if I bought the same car.




jevons paradox


I thought NVLINK didn't matter anymore because of the latest PCI-E speeds. Am I wrong there?


Are we talking 1 GPU or 8?


probably means - more expensive than any of us would spend on a "toy", but far cheaper than what an expert might on an industry standard version of this.


Exactly. A decent digital communication, spectrum or vector network analyser from the likes of Keysight (AKA HP or Agilent) or R&S is crazy money – many thousands.

Compared to any piece of "proper" test and measurement equipment even if Flipper 1 is $1k it's a steal, for example. Heck, the last thing I put on a grant application was a 220 GHz AWG that was something like $1.5m. Admittedly quite different from a single m2 plugin socket but a 1 GHz spectrum analyser starts at $2.4k and everything fancier is "price on application" [0].

I realise this is not the same piece of kit as Flipper One, but with the right daughter boards, hackability, and <s>graduate student</s> labour I imagine you could do a lot (I am interested in RF at <1 GHz for NMR reasons as well as electronic Larmor frequencies at ~100 GHz frequencies). Their SDR daughter boards are designed for communication but there's a whole world of academic nerds who do weird things and would love a genuinely open, hackable broadband SDR (they exist, with limitations! I have a lime SDR somewhere…)

[0] https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/products/test-and-measureme...


they're also on the cusp of throwing it all away, again.


It is wild seeing the elctorial maps of Germany and you can almost exactly recreate the East-West split. Decades later and it is coming back to haunt them.


tbf the east-west split never really stopped haunting Germany. its not like it came suddenly. there are a lot of systemic errors that lead to this.


Tbf, the east/west split is the one part that wasn’t the Nazis’ fault unless indirectly as a consequence of starting and losing a second World War in a row.


also relevant is the end of this SNL sketch from this last weekend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS97AzfKp3U


And this SNL sketch from a few decades ago:

https://youtu.be/NWIlScfHwOU?si=64xMCQf8MHtho44H


This one still makes me laugh!


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