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>>jonbae+(OP)
Last time these folks were mentioned on HN, there was a lot of skepticism that this is really possible to do. The issue is cooling: in space, you can't rely on convection or conduction to do passive cooling, so you can only radiate away heat. However, the radiator would need to be several kilometers big to provide enough cooling, and obviously launching such a large object into space would therefore eat up any cost savings from the "free" solar power.

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>>Reuben+o1
You've also got the problem of cosmic radiation flipping bits. Your fault tolerant architecture probably mitigates this with redundancy, with the extra servers again eating into the purported advantages of extra solar power. Dealing with the PITA of single event upsets is something developers of edge data processing software in space put up with to avoid the latency issues that data clouds in space introduce

>>notaha+W6
In all seriousness, if AI models can handle quantization, they can handle some flipped bits from time to time! There are probably some fascinating papers to be written around how to choose which layers in an LLM architecture could benefit more than others from redundant computation in a high-radiation environment.

>>btown+N11
Brilliant, to turn up the model temperature we just hinge open the shielding. I call dibs on the patent!

>>kibwen+t71
Ok, has anyone patented chips with radioactive source glued to them? For "true" randomness.

If it not i want dibs on it.

>>lawles+Hs1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...

> and even the nuclear decay (due to practical considerations the latter, as well as the atmospheric noise, is not viable except for fairly restricted applications or online distribution services)

>>DontBr+Gx1
yeah, I think the space weather experts would have fun statistically analysing the single-event-upset RNG :)