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kd913
·letzten Monat·discuss
It means financial companies have been illogically pumping semiconductor companies the last 5 months despite the profits, royalties and supply chain being entire worse than a year ago.

They pumped ai adjacent stocks to draw retail in, to provide liquidity now when they are in theory forced to purchase SpaceX.

Effectively getting people to buy semi-ai stocks at a premium to fund their forced purchase for SpaceX.
kd913
·letzten Monat·discuss
My theory is hedgies and investment banks using semi and ai hype as a liquidity bridge to drop into SpaceX which happens next week.

Arm and AMD pumped to insane levels on basically nothing.

What proof is there for your narrative versus mine?
kd913
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
How often do you have to do fast transfers from computer to computer?

Would argue for those purposes 40gig thunderbolt makes a lot more sense.
kd913
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
If this is true, I feel teh wifi alliance have a tonne to answer for the ewaste they generate.

WPA3 moved from symmetric AES to ECDH which is vulnerable to Quantum. Gonna be a tonne of IOT inverters waste.
kd913
·vor 3 Monaten·discuss
Apple is about to deprecate the iphone 11/SE 2020 version. Am gonna repurpose them as webcams given the 12MP camera put in there is arguably better than the brand new ones they put on new macs.

The phone now has a limited lifespan though because of this prior stupidity where eventually am gonna get into spicy pillow territory. At that point the phone prematurely dies.

We are going into a period where we are throwing away devices with 12mp+ cameras, and processors arguably faster than most desktops. It was arguable when the phones were old and legacy, but at this point the cameras on there are stupidly good.

We need these phones to be repurposed for a second life and actually capture their manufacture energy costs.

Frankly, if Apple allowed old iphones to be used for server usage, it is kind of crazy how efficient per dollar that would be.
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
ARM is a bloody financial hand grenade.

10% of the stock is floated.

90% of the stock is owned by Masa who used it for collateral for his 18 billion loan for Stargate. THat is against 33 banks who have a strong incentivise to dump in a margin call situation.

Their revenues are circular for the last 4 years, with 30% growth purely coming from Softbank shuffling their own money.

They are gonna be the canary in the coal mine for when the AI bubble implodes.
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
The US job stats were revised down for 2025 to 181k, but somehow the Country gained 130k in January?

Is anyone looking at this and the CBO figures and not just realising the government is straight lying about the figures?

Gonna believe Powell and Waller on this one.
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
That is not a correct assumption. https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/

Reports in North Virginia and Texas are stating existing data centres are being capped 30% to prevent residential brownouts.
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Okay but even in that case the hardware suffers significant under utilisation which massively hits RoI. (I think I read they only achieve 30% utilisation in this scenario)
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
They worked out because there was an excess of energy and water to handle it.

We will see how the maths works out given there is 19 GW shortage of power. 7 year lead time for Siemens power turbines, 3-5 years for transformers.

Raw commodities are shooting up, not enough education to cover nuclear and SMEs and the RoI is already underwater.
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
Buy gold.

Current US debt to gdp is 124%, 38.6 trillion. Japan too at 230-240%.

Bond markets in both are looking seriously unhealthy (Japan going via a Liz Truss moment at present).

If the AI bubble falls over, the US government is going to have to print 5 trillion to cover the bubble at least. The only option there is inflate away anyone holding cash.

If hte AI succeeds and people are replaced, the US government faces a massive fiscal cliff of a loss of tax receipts. They won't be able to service the debt and again will be forced to inflate away.

To service current debt projects, AI growth needs to return some 3.2-3.5%, it is currently 0.5%.

Bonds, equities, USD, and housing are all risk assets right now.
kd913
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
I think ARM is the one to watch. Softbank only has a 10% float of their stock.

90% of their stock is being used as collateral against 33 banks for 18 billion stargate loan to OpenAI.

Given Japanese bond markets right now, 30% circular financing, if the AI narrative falls, ARM is gonna blow up.
kd913
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
A 5090 gaming card is a different beast to the 80gb ai cards. That one was 40k usd so for renting that to hit 1.50 dollar per hour is interesting.
kd913
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
I am still a little skeptical about utilisation rates. If demand is so extreme, wouldn't we see rental prices for H100/A100 prices go up or maintain? Wouldn't the cost for such a gpu still be high (you can get em 3k used).
kd913
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
The defacto install of github CLI on ubuntu systems appears to be snap which is owned by some random dude...
kd913
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
There is AMD's onload https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload. It works with Solarflare, Xilinx but also generic NIC support via AF_XDP.
kd913
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
The cpu is what a 9950x whilst paired with one of the cheapest asus motherboards with underpowered VRMs according to games nexus, hardware unboxed.

The cooler was under the rated tdp of the platform. That and it lasted 6 months and so far seemed the only case of it falling over like it did.

Yea am leaning on it being user error.
kd913
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
General consensus on that case seems to be they picked a budget motherboard and skimped on the cooler.
kd913
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
The most trustworthy is one which you setup yourself imho.

I am giving each of my family in various locations a raspberry pi 4b with wireguard setup.

They are aware of/benefit from this cross country VPN thing too.