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I keep saying to people - "if you have a good idea that can make use of large amounts of really really cheap GPUs to do something genuinely useful - get ready for a massive glut of spare capacity". I still haven't thought of anything, unfortunately...


These are sort of compute-focused GPUs, right? I bet a lot of university labs would like them.

I wonder if ubiquitous, user-friendly finite elements analysis tools could become a boon for 3D printers.


Hopefully they can be repurposed for something like cheap drug discovery rather than shitcoin mining.


If that ends up being the case then we could all genuinely agree that good has eventually emerged from the compute/inference infrastructure that LLMs paid for. I hope that comes to pass.


Yeah but we all know it's definitely gonna be shitcoin mining


I would love to build a render farm out of cheap decommissioned GPUs...




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