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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • IMO, those IPOs are going to result in a recession because once the market realizes LLMs are nothing more than unsubstantiated gains, the bottom will fall out just like it did on dotcom.

    Watch, they’ll launch to great fanfare, then the prices of AI credits will go up.

    Companies will complain so they’ll release something ‘revolutionary’ that costs a little less, but ultimately costs the AI companies more.

    Once the new LLM loses its fanfare, they will be forced to jack prices up to cover costs and ultimately fail.

    It’s a tale as old as the markets.





  • Take it out of the Sabrent USB and directly connect it to the system, run lsblk to get the drive id and then check smartmontools using smartctl -H /dev/(whatever disk it is)

    This will tell you if the drive is hosed or not.

    If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.