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		webworker 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple M3 Ultra The real hardware needed for artificial intelligence wasn't NVIDIA, it was a CRAY XMP from 1982 all along

samstave 4 months ago [–]

WHen I was with Mirantis, I flew to Austin TX to meet a client in a non-descript multi-tenant office building...

we walked in and getting our bearings, we come upon CRAY office. WTF?!

I tried the doors, locked - and it was clearly empty... but damn did I want to steal their office door signage.

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