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		higerordermap on Feb 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The decline of computers as a general-purpose tech... But most tinkering journeys do not start with dedicated hardware. They start with hardware intended for something else, generally on a quest to solve some problem or do something cool..

shadowgovt on Feb 25, 2021 [–]

The evolution of graphics cards into CUDA machines for machine learning applications is one example of this phenomenon.

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