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by nijave 15 days ago
Training, no. Latency is too high.

Inference the latency becomes trivial.

Other things, I suspect latency is too high again.

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They're going for an orbital height of 600–800 km, or about 2-3 light-milliseconds from Earth's surface. A lot of people think of satellites as being necessarily high-latency because of intuition drawn from satellites in geosynchronous orbit – but those are about 50x farther away from earth and have correspondingly longer ping times.
They don't go directly to the satellite but through ground stations and then bounce around on lasers between satellites. The latency is going to be worse than fiber