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by messe 1202 days ago
Charlie Stross (cstross on here) had a fun blog post[1] about this phenomenon just a week and a half ago.

> As for what you should look to invest in?

> I'm sure it's just a coincidence that training neural networks and mining cryptocurrencies are both applications that benefit from very large arrays of GPUs. [...]

> If I was a VC I'd be hiring complexity theory nerds to figure out what areas of research are promising once you have Yottaflops of numerical processing power available, then I'd be placing bets on the GPU manufacturers going there

[1]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/02/place-y...