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- wslh 2y agoIt seems there are intersections with the history of PoW mining (CPU => GPUs => FPGAs => ASICs) since we don't need the full power of GPUs for training or inference. For example, ASICBoost [1][2][3] was/is a technique to improve PoW by ~20%. [1] https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/asicboost/ https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/asicboost/ [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575 [3] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/04/06/bitcoins-new-controversy-the-asicboost-allegations-explained/ https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/04/06/bitcoins-new-con...
- OutOfHere 2y agoWhether we do or don't need GPUs, we certainly don't need to be paying Nvidia a 9x markup over what it costs Nvidia to build the GPU.