We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space.

[tristan@catnest.net]

@joykill @malwaretech
Whenever musk talks about going to Mars I just know it's to build the new little st James.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@drew @malwaretech
Vacuum is the problem.

How long does coffee stay hot, or iced lemonade stay cold in a really good thermos flask? Not the modern steel or alloy flasks. The real ones with a small neck and big vacuum gap between the glass walls?

[tdelmas@mamot.fr]

@malwaretech the cosmic radiation is there to add randomness

[marjolica@social.linux.pizza]

@alexmdunne @malwaretech or just repurpose all those Teslas that no one wants to buy. After all Musk has already sent one into space.

Just a moment...

(where-is-tesla-roadster.space)

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange

"Oh. And, because of the lifecycle of the GPUs, we'll need to replace space-borne hardware every three-ish years."

Impact to the atmosphere by the (tens of?) thousands of annual rocket-launches to build and service those datacenters will be absolutely trivial, I'm sure.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@tdelmas@mamot.fr @malwaretech@infosec.exchange

Ooh! Space-borne entropy-sources. The performance of /dev/random will be vastly improved …and we won't need to jiggle mice, any more!

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @malwaretech@infosec.exchange

Though, in this case, it will be an orbit full of the cooled blobs of slagged CPUs and GPUs.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@NocturnalNessa@infosec.exchange @malwaretech@infosec.exchange

Used to work for a global ISP in the early 2000s. Sun had released a new line of mid-range servers (e250, e450, etc.). They had significant issues with random panic() reboots caused by ECC memory-errors. Sun never could figure out the problem, citing the possibility that the parity errors were coming from cosmic rays. Eventually, they issued a patch …to log the errors rather than act on them.

[curtmack@floss.social]

@malwaretech reminds me of a short video that was shared with me:

Electrician (holding camera): "Who did you say wired your house again?"
Customer (in another room) "My cousin"
Electrician: "Okay, and when did his house burn down?"
Customer: "Oh, about two years ago... Wait, how did you know his house burned down?"

(As this happens, the electrician is showing that there's 120 volts between the customer's oven and metal countertop, capable of supplying enough current to light a lightbulb.)

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@malwaretech Did they tech themselves spalling two?

[cenobyte@mastodon.thirring.org]

@malwaretech While hackers can hack alot of things, they can't hack physics. (I do have a couple of cool ideas using lasers to dump the heat...but yeah physics)

Space data centers are a bad idea..lol. Imagine the poor sucker who's got to swap a gpu when a petaEV accelerated by some blazar comes crashing in.

[craigbro@infosec.exchange]

@alexmdunne @pier @malwaretech Beowulf clusters with token ring in space, that’s the ticket. We’ll call it Chat ORbital Beowulf AI, or CORBA

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@NocturnalNessa @malwaretech "Imagine youre using your ai and suddenly it does something totally unexpected for reasons no one is able to diagnose?"

Pretty sure you don't need bit flips for that to happen. Just working as designed.

[haikyoneko@famichiki.jp]

@alexmdunne @malwaretech how are they cooled exactly? You know that heat doesn't disapate in space. Cooling systems for things in space are invariably complex, and don't shift the amount of heat a data centre makes.

[scott@sfba.social]

@malwaretech

[pixx@merveilles.town]

@pier
Okay but what if it didn't????????
@alexmdunne @malwaretech