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How does that work? Isn't most bitcoin mining done on custom ASICs? I didn't think that the ASIC could be repurposed for inference.
by scheme271 6mo ago
How does that work? Isn't most bitcoin mining done on custom ASICs? I didn't think that the ASIC could be repurposed for inference.
- packetlost 6mo agoThe biggest cost is the power which is often on multi year contracts. The hardware is comparatively cheap
- idiotsecant 6mo agoThat's wildly inaccurate. The cost in enormous both on the inference side and the mining side and has short lifetimes if you want SOTA.
- 0xack 6mo agoTraining ASICs (like Google’s TPUs) can generally run inference too, since inference is a subset of training computations. TPUs are widely used for both. Mining ASICs (Bitcoin, etc.) cannot be repurposed…they’re hardwired for a single hash algorithm and lack matrix math needed for neural networks.