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What we have with deep learning is the first data center application for lots of compute with high latency. This will enable data centers in locations previousl
by ggg9990 8y ago
What we have with deep learning is the first data center application for lots of compute with high latency. This will enable data centers in locations previously infeasible.
- martinald 8y agoIceland isn't really high latency. In many ways it is perfect for serving Europe and east coast US from one place (if required).
- stcredzero 8y agoIceland also has sovereignty and very favorable geography. (Being surrounded by oceans makes it easy to remain fairly neutral.) If I were the government of Iceland, I would issue a cryptocurrency.
- criddell 8y agoIf you are a government, why would you issue a cryptocurrency? Why not issue a more more traditional digital currency with a central ledger?
- stcredzero 8y agoA cryptocurrency would be less under the control of the government, which could well be a feature.
- allannienhuis 8y agonot for the government...
- stcredzero 8y agoBut perhaps for other governments and other parties. The customers.
- stale2002 8y agoA government would be responding to customer demand. Sure, they could create a centralized digital currency. But the market might not want to use that, so what's even the point of spending all this effort making it in the first place. Whereas a decentralized currency has features that sounds me customers want.
- marcosdumay 8y agoCurrently, demand for cryptocurrencies seems indistinguishable from zero. At the same time, demand for government issued centralized money is quite large.
- stcredzero 8y agoHistory has seen rapid changes in the demand for government issued money.
- marcosdumay 8y agoThe word "rapid" on that phrase was an entirely different meaning from when it's used to describe the rate of change of cryptocoins demand. A large market is a more stable market. Crypto may get large at some point (I don't see why they would, but I don't see everything), but today they are nothing. Thus, preaching that people massively want them is nonsense.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y agoIceland is not neutral in any geopolitical sense of the word. Iceland is fully within the US/NATO orbit.
- stcredzero 8y agoIt makes sense for Iceland to be in the US/NATO orbit. If there were a European/Russian conflict, they'd be a bit too strategically valuable for Russia. Given that's the only major geopolitical impetus, they're still in a good position to do financial stuff with a large part of the developed world.
- npongratz 8y agoNot government-issued, and there's certainly many reasons for failing (or at least, for its chronic floundering), but the Auroracoin airdrop was a thing for Iceland and has not performed very well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroracoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroracoin https://coinlib.io/coin/AUR/Aurora+Coin https://coinlib.io/coin/AUR/Aurora+Coin
- yownie 8y agoIt was rolled out very poorly here, no vendor integration and the claiming mechanism was webscraping the local yellow pages site here and eventually was blocked.
- yownie 8y agoWe're VERY high latency here. only 3 sub cables and only one of those is a North American link that first stops twice in Greenland. We need better connectivity.
- voltagex_ 8y agoWhat's your ping time to Europe, the US and Australia? (out of interest).
- frozenport 8y agoTraining, but note that evaluation, for example, speech-to-text benefits from low latency and regional data centers.