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It crashed hard and it crashed fast after a prolonged period of unsustainable growth. Is that not a bubble?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264999321002327
But it is being used for train
-ing AI models.
It's absolutely nothing like that, my dude. There's no extra service being provided. The product has been manufactured and purchased. It'd be like buying a drill only to find out that you have to pay a fee to use the drill bits you already own, or buying a block of wood and being told that you have to pay the seller money to use the tools you already own to make it into whatever you're building.
There was one a while ago, back when mining on GPUs was still viable. I wanna say the GTX 1000 series was still in vogue at the time.
Man, 10 years ago I would have been kinda interested in this. But now? Yeah no, give me root or give me death.
My uncle loves to tell a story from his youth about when he was driving his VW bug up in Maine back in the 70s. As he was winding through the woods on a back road, he struck and killed a rather large buck, which is honestly a fairly impressive feat for a 1970-something VW bug. As he's standing there assessing the (thankfully minimal) damage to his car, a game warden pulls up and informs him that, in Maine, if you kill an animal while hunting, you're legally required to haul carcass home with you under threat of jail time.
And so began his several-hour task of cramming a 6-point buck into the back seat of a 1970-something VW bug. As far as I remember, he was successful, too.
If it's anything like the crypto bubble from a couple years ago, then yeah. eBay should be flooded with used RAM and GPUs.
It took me a solid half-dozen tries not to pronounce it "mid-leend." After that much effort, I decided to let my dumb brain win and go with it.
Holy FUCK YES. I had to switch to Gnome because the framerate difference was giving me a headache.
It kinda feels like the digital equivalent of "I'M MOVING TO CANADA" in a lot of cases.