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Comment Re:sounds like a distraction (Score 1) 65

There are several things Huang is dealing with right now. The affairs are a personal matter, mostly. The affair with the direct report got him fired/resigned, but that's the end of that. The spy thing is likely to go no further than being a further embarrassment for him.

Oooh no-no-no. He only wishes that was his biggest problem. The CEO of a Singapore company happened to recently advertise that they get priority supply for very supply limited GPUs. Some intercepted communications with that company, written in Chinese, indicated that some customers in China and also Russia were wanting some GPUs, which that company was selling. And wouldn't you know, there's literally very recent video of Ukrainians pulling nvidia H100s out of downed Russian drones. Now, ask yourself: how would that company, with relatively low volume compared to many others, get priority access to nvidia's supply of new chips? Would, perhaps, by having its CEO fuck nvidia's CEO do the trick?

Congress recently subpoena'ed him to testify. How much you want to bet it's about that? You may see him spend a few hours in the hot seat on C-SPAN soon. Remember what happened to Fuckerberg? That will be...a cakewalk...in comparison.

Comment Re:sounds like a distraction (Score 1) 65

Correct, but Huang is a also a huge proponent of democratized open source access to AI systems which directly threaten the business potential

You do see where the conflict of interest in that is though, right?

Anthropic thinks their prompts are worth $2T

I don't believe they do. Their operating expenses are far greater than their revenues. They have no real moat. They're not stupid, they know this. They try to distract from that by pointing at ARR, which is...dumb...but I think they believe more that the hype train will give them a way to divest just enough to realize a larger gain than what they put into it, even though none of them will meaningfully exit. But will they realize that gain? My bet is somewhere between no and hell no.

Being a dirty dog doesn't take down a megacorp CEO - unfortunately it's the norm.

Why...unfortunately...? Where a man puts his penis is his own business. Hillary believes in that too, even though she tried to ruin the political careers of anybody who said anything about it. So why not a CEO?

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

About 35% to 45% of Arizona is hot, low desert, not just Phoenix. And yet that's where the overwhelming majority of data centers are built.

It's interesting then, that TFS is talking about Tucson. Wouldn't you say? But that's neither here nor there:

Factors like permissive politics and tax incentives, flat land that facilitates building, existing infrastructures and proximity to communications hubs, relative safety from natural disasters, and yes, modern cooling technologies that can deal with the desert heat, even though they consume much more energy that they would elsewhere.

Well, guess what? That same political climate exists basically all over the state, and the rest of it also exists in many other parts of the state, including the large swaths of Yavapai county, just north of Phoenix, that tend to have a pretty mild climate with plenty of infrastructure to complement.

I stand by my statements about the Second Law of Thermodynamics: it's harder to keep an interior cool if the exterior is hot.

Nobody is saying otherwise.

I have a pretty good understanding of it. I have a PhD in physics.

No, you have Gemini. And Gemini is no substitute for a PhD. Ask Gemini what happens with the equilibrium of a system when fluids originating outside of the system pass through it.

I also have a feeling that you're going to misuse some of the language of my post, even though I used said language correctly in this context.

Comment Re:Confused (Score 1) 65

According to Gemini

Cheese...you're fucking serious. While those bots are useful, if you're just taking its word for it, which you clearly are, you're doing it wrong. Way way wrong. Now I see why you keep talking about the second law of thermodynamics when you clearly don't know how or where it is applicable.

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

There are lots of people who are at risk without air conditioning, especially in the hot parts of Arizona. For example, people who have medical conditions or are on certain medications, or even people without such conditions, like the elderly, infants, and pregnant women.

Actually the people who die the most from it are found to have been abusing some kind of substance, including alcohol, while they were dying. Worth also mentioning that there's a sizable homeless population that literally lives in Papago park. Unhoused. Unsheltered. Year round. Some of these guys literally live in tents underneath a bridge, some just under a tree, and some kind of in the middle of a bunch of overgrown brush.

Millennia ago, people dealt with hot, arid conditions by avoiding them. Those who were determined to live in such areas despite the challenges managed to develop protections against them. Those who weren't just moved elsewhere. This persists today.

If they dealt with them by avoiding them, then where do you think the name Phoenix even comes from? People avoiding the desert don't settle in it for over a thousand years. We've literally seen entire civilizations rise from deserts and build sprawling cities and massive structures in them. That is NOT what avoiding it looks like. You're sitting here trying to deny anthropology. And because I clearly have to spell this out for you: Denial isn't a river in Egypt.

Certainly, people have come up with creative ways to deal with heat using technology, architecture, landscaping, etc., but that doesn't get a box to cool down all on its own when it's hot outside. Absent other measures, the best you can do is slow down the approach to thermal equilibrium.

The first place you're going wrong is one I'll answer with a question: What and where is this equilibrium? You're assuming that it's one big homogeneous system in a place where it isn't. You're trying to apply all else being equal reasoning in a place where it isn't.

Comment Re: Vaccines work (Score 2, Insightful) 49

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

It's not just vaccines though, or even limited to the Internet. The English RT was reporting that 5g will kill people, for instance. It takes pretty stupid people to buy into any of that nonsense. But remember, we also have a lot of people who believe socialism works, the world is flat, oj was innocent, and more, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I'd add believing in the existence of an all powerful invisible man to that list, but unlike those, it can't be empirically tested given he's invisible and all.

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

What dick? All you have there is more brown matter. And as is very typical, you handily lost the argument. Cry some more. If you actually read about topics before running your mouth, you might learn something and spare yourself yet another ego bruising. Might being the key word here given you never seem to learn anything.

To err is human. To err in the exact same way repeatedly over the last 20 years is what separates you from those more capable. That's why you're pre-destined to be a never successful dogmatic socialist henchman who prefers the word rebel.

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

True close loops don't use much water, but it certainly isn't true that most of them are closed. I live in Texas and every data center I've seen uses evaporative cooling.

That's a fantastic sample size.

Your stats (and mine) are based on a tiny sample size.

Did you...even read it?

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

Insulation simply slows down, but does not stop, the approach to thermal equilibrium. The fact is that it's harder to keep the inside cold when the outside is hot.

And also, I might add, that you're grossly oversimplifying this. In your simple mind, perhaps everything warm is in a box, and the only way to cool that box is to air condition it. But nothing could be further from the truth. Contrary to your prior statements, air conditioning isn't essential to humans. It helps a bit, but if you plan for it correctly, you can absolutely do without. There's a reason 90 degree heat is deadly to people in Chicago even WITH air conditioning, but not to people in Phoenix who have literally planned their construction around it.

Have you ever bothered to ask yourself how people have managed to live in hot, arid conditions, even for millennia in some cases, without needing air conditioning? Do you know what a vaulted ceiling is for? Have you ever wondered why, in the southeast, where it's more humid and hot, often in bayous, some houses have something called a veranda? Have you wondered why some houses are built on the north side of very tall trees? Or are surrounded by them? And that barely scratches the surface.

You can use insulation to help leverage the same physics that enable these things, and much, much more, to work effectively.

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

Arizona is an odd choice. Arizona is hot as hell. Air conditioning is essential for humans, let alone compute-intensive data-centers.

You're thinking of Phoenix, which sits in a valley within the broader Sonoran desert. Two hours north of it is Flagstaff, a popular tourist ski resort town that is often open well into May. Two hours east of Phoenix is Four Peaks, a region with lots of snow and evergreens. And that's still nowhere close to the grand canyon. One hour south of Phoenix is Tucson, where despite being further south, has a more moderate climate. Why? Because it's not in a valley nor surrounded by mountains.

I know Arizona a hell of a lot better than you do. I should, because unlike most of Phoenix's current residents, I was actually born and raised in it. I also know a lot more about how datacenters need to be built and maintained there than you do. garyisabusyguy has already done a pretty good job schooling you on it though, so I don't need to say more than the fact that your understanding of the second law of thermodynamics is either misapplied, wanting, or more likely, both. But it doesn't matter.

Comment Re: Good luck with that (Score 1) 78

More redirects, now the subject is ship building

I get that you're really slow, but there's no way I can explain this with simple words within your vocabulary, so here's the explanation with another big word: This is what is called an analogy. The word has nothing to do with anal sex, it's pronounced AN-AL-O-GEE. It's used to explain a broader point, or in this case, explain why the opposing viewpoint is invalid. Ask your legal guardian for help on that word.

Interesting that the "abundance of power" isn't reflected in low electric rates to Ariizona customers, it's almost as if you are conflating different things i.e. nuclear power and solar radiation.

I live in a place called California. It's a state just west of Arizona (note it only has one i, not two like the way you spelled it.) But, I was born, raised, and spent over 90% of my adult life in Arizona. I also have a mother that lives there, and I visit her sometimes. Unlike yours, she didn't abandon any of her babies in a gutter. I also fund her retirement. Basically the exact opposite of what you do. That means I pay her electricity bill and other utility bills still, to this day. Kind of like how your legal guardian pays yours. I know more about the rates there than you do, and I can tell you first hand: California electricity is expensive. Arizona electricity is not.

MAGA, are you capable of saying anything without deceit?

As I told you before, I don't have anything to do with them, nor know much about them. Because you're obviously so interested in them, ask your legal guardian to take you to a Trump rally so you can find out.

Comment Re: With tears in my eyes (Score 1) 151

It will over the next news cycle or two. Doesn't matter what happens to him in the end. The fundamentals are solid either way. Nobody is going to stop buying Nvidia chips at well above prior market rates just because they got a new CEO. Especially when they're like crack to Russia and China.

CEOs can be such flawed creatures, but when they deliver results...they deliver results. Ones like him are incredibly hard to replace. You don't post a job listing, you don't accept applications. You create a short list, and see if you can offer enough to convince them to flip from their current job. Some won't flip at any price. If you want a flawless one that also delivers results...well...good luck with that.

Comment Re: It will get worse (Score 1) 56

No, that's not how this works. People go to azure because they want outlook 365 for whatever reason. They don't think about uptime, they just get comfortable with clicking on the big e to get on the Internet. If the e changes to a stylized circle, they'll get lost, they call IT and ask where it is.

Now think about asking them to switch from Outlook to virtually anything else. Before you even get to the second migration wave, others are already demanding to go back. Then you get political pressure to go back. Most people will be back on their Facebook in no-time talking about trump, forgetting this whole thing ever happened by next week.

That's especially so with the government where every single employee, including department heads, are incredibly complacent -- you can't get them to move to anything. Shit, during the pandemic, people were having to make unemployment claims for furlough on a website that flat refused to work with anything but internet explorer, even well after Microsoft told everybody to stop using it.

Comment My take (Score 1) 151

This is my take on it from sifting through lots of stuff. Take from it what you will (it is mostly speculative):

1) Huang is a VERY effective CEO.
2) He is also very well-liked by his employees and people who work with him.
3) His departure from NVidia will hurt them greatly.
4) He probably didn't know she was a spy and didn't disclose anything useful to her/China.
5) This outcome is perhaps exactly what China wanted- a scandal to get an extremely effective CEO out of NVidia to hurt the company.
6) After the investigation, if he is cleared of disclosure or any any law-breaking, then he should be allowed to return to NVidia as CEO (and perhaps with a little more oversight). His moral failings are something he will need to address with his family.

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