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jedbergyesterday at 10:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

Whenever computer chips go into space, they have to be hardened against radiation, because there is no atmosphere to protect them. Otherwise you get random bit flips.

This process takes a while, which is partly why all the computers in space seem out of date. Because they are.

No one is going to want to use chips that are a many years out of date or subject to random bit flips.

(Although now it got me thinking, do random bit flips matter when training a trillion parameter model?)


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fookertoday at 3:05 AM

LLMs specifically are fine with random bits flipped for the results to be 'creative'.

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mohsen1yesterday at 11:46 PM

not a problem for "AI". it's just a bit more spice (temperature) which Grok possibly need! jk!