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They are definitely in NVIDIA’s own rooms! It’s like, they invest $1 in AI companies, that pay back NVIDIA $100 for GPUs. If you draw the lines you will see som
by dgellow 29d ago
They are definitely in NVIDIA’s own rooms! It’s like, they invest $1 in AI companies, that pay back NVIDIA $100 for GPUs. If you draw the lines you will see something that looks a bit like an ellipse. Or maybe a boomerang path. Or like, a 2d sphere. A bit frustrating we don’t have a simpler word for such a shape
- marginalia_nu 29d agoI asked Astra to explain this and it thought for a really long time and then came back with this: https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/financing.png https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/financing.png
- dgellow 29d agoThat’s hilarious, I wish HN rendered pictures just for that one!
- marginalia_nu 29d agoEmbedding the image would have ruined the comedic timing and made it less funny. Comedy is mostly about subverting expectations. If your eyes are drawn to the punchline before you read the set up it doesn't work.
- raphman 29d agoI hope that this is temporally and spatially far away enough. In order to fully appreciate the joke, one should have read https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ (I didn't beforehand).
- someguyiguess 29d agoThis reminds me of the “it’s not a pyramid scheme. It’s a reverse funnel system”