This reminds me of being told dogs don't feel emotions by someone who never owned one. Parrots most definitely can talk. Their language is extremely primitive but if you've ever been around a grey and it's owner for some time, they definitely talk to each other. The parrot will readily communicate observations and desires.

There were plenty of them around when I worked at Nvidia. They definitely exist.

You have seen plenty of third party GB300 DGX workstations?

I don't expect the ram situation to get any better soon if that's what you're asking.

Sometimes it's because the original mix was for theater surround sound and lower mixes were generated via software.

Never thought I'd say this, but I kinda miss Jobs.

That's not how ethical disclosure works. Both parties should publish and we, the wider tech industry should see this as a good thing both for the hacker and the company that worked with them.

Not exactly. Infra will win the race. In this aspect, Google is miles ahead of the competition. Their DC solutions scale very well. Their only risk is that the hardware and low level software stack is EXTREMELY custom. They don't even fully leverage OCP. Having said that, this has never been a major problem for Google over their 20+ years of moving away from OTS parts.

But anyone with enough money can make infra. Maybe not at the scale of Google, but maybe that's not necessary (unless you have a continuous stream of fresh high-quality training data).

If making infra means designing their own silicon to target only inference instead of more general GPUs I can agree with you, otherwise the long-term success is based on how cheap they can run the infra compared to competitors.

Depending on Nvidia for your inference means you'll be price gouged for it, Nvidia has a golden goose for now and will milk it as much as possible.

I don't see how a company without optimised hardware can win in the long run.

The silicon can be very generic. I don't see why prices of "tensor" computation units can't go down if the world sees the value in them, just like how it happened with CPUs.

Anyone with enough money can cross any moat. That's one of the many benefits of having infinite money.

Bubba was allegedly a nickname for clinton.

(Also allegedly the name of a horse Ghislaine Maxwell owned.)

The nickname itself isn't alleged, which particular bubba is tho.

I don't recall this in snow crash

It's been like that forever. Makes it very hard to take the NBA seriously.